Gold Coast residents are again on high alert as another COVID case has been detected, with shoppers who attended the Black Friday sales at Robina Town Centre in the Gold Coast being asked by health authorities to isolate and get tested. 

The patient visited Rebel Sport, JB Hifi, and Target stores at the shopping centre between 1:40 pm and 2:30 pm last Friday.

Queensland Health authorities are investigating the source of transmission and are expected to provide further information and any other potential exposure sites later today. 

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended a 12 month investigation after 11 women complained about a Queensland Health manager who was accused of insulting co-workers with derogatory names and playing sexually charged “game ratings.”

According to the report, the investigation “partially substantiated” the allegations but found that quote, “name calling in the team is normal and done in an endearing manner.” 

Westpac has admitted it broke the law and has agreed to pay penalties totalling $113 million after the corporate regulator hit the bank with 6 lawsuits over careless treatment of customers, including charging dead people fees. 

The US Supreme Court is set to decide whether to uphold a Mississippi law that would ban almost all abortions after 15 week of pregnancy. 

The ruling could gut the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which protects pregnant women’s liberty to choose to have an abortion.

The supreme court has a conservative majority after former president Donald Trump appointed Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett as judges who are expected to uphold the Mississippi law. 

Education professionals are concerned Queensland could lose thousands of teachers as the state government makes COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory in public and private schools in just weeks. 

The Teachers’ Professional Association of Queensland secretary, Jack McGuire, has said he suspects at least 10 % of teachers would be reluctant to get the jab which would see around 6,000 teachers and 180,000 kids impacted. 

The latest vaccine hesitancy data shows 11.1 % of Queenslanders are either unwilling or unsure if they will get the vaccine.

The Master Plumbers’ Association of Queensland (MPAQ) is warning residents to check their plumbing and drainage as the south east continues to receive a massive deluge of rain.

Following prolonged rainfall, residents should check for drainage and septic overflows, blocked or silted drains, hail damage to pipes and gas regulators and Gutter blockages. 

MPAQ President Kent Vickers says checking plumbing is a public health priority.

Freedom of Information documents have revealed that Australia’s Future Fund has invested $157 million in 14 companies that have done business with the Myanmar military such as supplying fighter jets, missiles, radar and millions in annual revenue to war criminals. 

The Future Fund holds about $200 billion in investments made on behalf of the Australian government. 

The fund’s holdings include $4.9 million invested in 5 companies of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), which has sold combat aircraft and missiles to the Myanmar military. 

At least 22 civilians have been killed in an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ituri province. 

The province has been plunged back into a cycle of violence since late 2017 with the rise of the Cooperative for the Development of Congo militia, which has since split into rival factions. 

It is the third attack by the outlaws against displacement sites in the space of a week, causing more than 50 deaths and enormous material damage.