Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age are reporting Sydney Airport is at breaking point, with a shortage of air traffic controllers leading to a spike in overtime hours, and restrictions on flights about once a month.

Figures obtained by the newspapers from Sydney Airport show the total overtime hours air traffic controllers are working have increased 50 percent over the past three years from 101 hours in 2016 to 140 hours last year.

The Queensland Government has pledged $3.5 million over the next two years to community support organisation Communify Queensland to support asylum seekers and refugees through its programs.

The organisation currently provides multicultural programs and asylum seeker aid services.

Queensland Multicultural Affairs Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said the organisation has a proven track record.

The Queensland Government said Queensland hospitals are not in crisis despite all hospitals across the Metro North, Metro South and Gold Coast districts except the Queensland Children’s Hospital reporting a ‘code yellow’ status.

Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young had to activate the state health emergency centre to meet ‘unprecedented demand’ on Tuesday.

A second measles alert has been issued by Brisbane health authorities with a person infected with the disease visiting several locations in the inner city this last fortnight.

This case comes just one day after an alert was issued for an infectious person who visited places around Fortitude Valley and inner Brisbane.

Metro South Health Public Health Physician, Dr Bhakti Vasant, said “Measles is a serious viral infection that causes fever, cough, runny nose, then a red spotty rash and sore eyes a few days later.

South-East Queensland is set to receive a two-day heat reprieve as ex-Tropical Cyclone Trevor is set to bring much needed rain.

Brisbane’s maximum temperatures are expected to drop below 30 degrees today, tomorrow, and Friday before returning to temperatures in excess of 30 degrees again from this weekend and into early next week.

Brisbane City is expected to receive roughly 20 to 25 millimetres of rainfall daily on Wednesday and Thursday whilst Friday and Saturday are predicted slightly less with 10 to 20 millimetres per day.

Over 170 accounts of patients’ experiences of severe pain and suffering in years before their death have been submitted to the Queensland government, which seeks to gauge the level of support in the community for voluntary euthanasia.

140 of the 170 reports strongly urged a move by the state to allow medically assisted dying, provided there are safeguards put in place.

Australia is set to get a $6.5 million year-round freestyle ski-jumping facility in Brisbane after the initial plan fell through after a change of government in 2012.

The joint initiative between the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, state and federal governments and the Australian Olympic Committee will see the facility being built adjacent to the swimming pool at the Sleeman Sports Complex at Chandler.

London’s natural history museum has handed aboriginal ancestral remains back over to elders in a ceremony yesterday.

Elder from a South Australian community, Doug Milera, travelled to London for the ceremony, and the remains will be kept in Australian museums until they can be repatriated to various sites around the country.

Milera reflected “the fact we are bringing [the remains] home now means the anger and frustration can subside”.

Oxycontin maker Purdue have reached a US $270 m settlement to resolve a lawsuit accusing the drug company of fuelling an opioid abuse epidemic.

Oklahoma Attorney-General, Mike Hunter, alleged Purdue, Johnson & Johnson, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, engaged in deceptive marketing, playing down the risks of addiction associated with opioids.