Restaurants in Sydney are lending a helping hand to fellow hospitality workers struggling without work during the state's extended lockdown order.

Bungalow 8 on the now deserted King street wharf restaurant strip is offering specialist bookings only, with a week long menu for fellow hospitality workers retrenched by COVID-19.

Former prime minister John Howard says Australia bears a moral responsibility to help Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked with Australian agencies. 

John Howard has said “Where it is clearly the case that they could be in danger of retribution, we have an obligation to help them if necessary, by giving them visas to come to live in Australia.” 

Members of the Queensland Strawberry Growers' Association have expressed disappointment after the case against a former farm worker accused of placing needles in strawberries in 2018 was dropped.

My Ut Trinh, who was a farm supervisor at Berrylicious farm in Caboolture, north of Brisbane — was arrested after needles were found in punnets purchased at supermarkets.

A Queensland resident who travelled overseas has tested positive with COVID-19 and has active been in the community.

A public health alert for new contact-tracing sites in North Ipswich, Inala in Brisbane’s west and at Brisbane Airport has been released by health authorities as of yesterday.

The Queensland government has warned the 480 NRL players and staff who recently departed from Sydney of immediate deportation, if they fail to comply with bubble conditions over the next 14 days.  

Following the Dragons house party and Jai Arrow’s Origin hotel room scandals, the NRL can’t afford another black eye as 12 clubs landed on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast for day one of operation relocation.

A former chief executive of a multimillion-dollar technology company could have “put everyone at risk” after he sailed from a Sydney hotspot and lied on his border pass to enter Queensland from locked-down Sydney.

Melbourne businessman Jeromy Young, the co-founder of Atomos, a video technology company, was one of four people on board who were fined $5000 each by authorities in Queensland and NSW.

NSW Health has defended its decision to allow an exclusive Sydney private school to send students to Kangaroo Valley despite the city’s strict lockdown.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced an extension of the city’s lockdown until July 30 with the majority of school students ordered to learn remotely.

Brazilian President Jai air Bolsonaro is being taken to Sao Paulo where doctors will determine if he needs emergency surgery.

Calls for ambulance ramping data to be released have caused public outcry during the most recent health crisis in Queensland. 

Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates says the timely data must be released so health experts can start working on genuine solutions to heal our health system and fix the crisis.