The Secretary of the QLD Nurses and midwife’s union has called for daily Rapid Antigen Tests to be made mandatory for all essential workers, as the state recorded 22,069 Covid cases yesterday.

Secretary Beth Mohle stated that it was ‘an incredibly stressful time for everyone with thousands of nurses unable to work due to contracting or being exposed to COVID-19.

Opposition education and arts spokesman and member for Moggil Christian Rowan has called for more bridges to be built spanning the Brisbane River, in order to alleviate congestion and improve road safety.

Specifically, Rowan has called for a full traffic road bridge that would connect Bellbowrie and River Hills and connect with the centenary highway, stating that traffic planning in the area was ‘just madness and piecemeal’

A new report has found that a proposed gas development in the Lake Eyre Basin in QLD could increase national carbon emissions by 60%.

The proposed gas development in the environmentally fragile Basin Area has been done so without the consultation of local traditional owners and experts have said that if just 25% of the gas was recovered, that would be ‘incompatible’ with QLD’s emission reduction targets. 

Novac Djokovic has acknowledged an ‘error in judgement’ for failing to isolate after he returned a positive COVID test on the 16th of December as it remains uncertain whether the World No. 1 will be allowed to remain in Australia to play in the Australian Open.

35 of the nation’s top academics, doctors and community leaders have penned an open letter calling on Australian governments to open schools to face to face learning on time, in spite of QLD’s move to delay the start of the school as COVID-19 surges throughout the state.

US President Joe Biden has made an impassioned speech on protecting voting rights in the US, calling for Senate rules to be changed to make election laws easier to pass.