The Queensland Government is facing controversy after allowing the families of several football players to land in Queensland, with over 100 players’ wives, girlfriends, and children on board. 

The families were placed into 2 weeks hotel quarantine despite the Queensland Government’s temporary halt on the scheme to ease pressure on the system.

Queensland has recorded zero new cases Tuesday.

The state has hit over four million total tests, according to Premier Annastacia Palaszczcuk.

Also as of today, a majority of Queenslanders have been vaccinated with at least one dose.

A parliamentary committee has heard that Queensland Police are still not meeting timeframes for Right to Information requests.

Right to Information requests are the way Australians can force agencies to be more transparent.

Last October, QPS executives assured the office of the Information Commissioner that they would release information within the required deadlines.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczcuk faced criticism for granting border passes to family members of more than 100 NRL players and league officials despite the NSW border closures. 

Public health orders prohibited non-essential workers from entering Queensland, yet an exemption was given to a charter plane arriving from Sydney carrying NRL families on Monday afternoon.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on Queensland to bring in home quarantine as seen successfully in South Australia in order to deal with the wait time for hotel quarantine availability.

New research has found undisturbed artefacts under the seabed off the Northern Territory coastline which could tell the stories of how the first people arrived to Australia.

Flinders University said submerged landscapes around islands hold ancient tools, structures, burial sites and rock art from thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower.

The university noted Northern Territory’s importance, as it once held an inhabited shelf of land which stretched all the way to Papua New Guinea.

Nationals Ministers David Littleproud and Barnaby Joyce have come into conflict over the planned inland railroad from Melbourne to Brisbane.

Several Nationals MPs have accused Mr Littleproud of breaching cabinet guidelines and undermining Mr Joyce by lobbying privately to have the rail route changed.

Mr Joyce seems unlikely to concede to the calls to change the route, maintaining his stance that the cabinet members all agree on the current plan.

Japan’s rigid hiring system and male dominated leadership remain large hurdles to increasing the number of educated women in leadership roles.

The country missed its deadline for its Womenomics program last year and the country faces a large number of under-employed ex-housewives due to COVID-19. 

Once women take a period of leave in Japan it is nearly impossible for them to return to their original career.

According to Urban Utilities, large sewer-clogging wet wipe blockages cost south-east Queensland sewerage providers around $1 million per year. They say though many products are marked ‘flushable’, it does not mean they should be flushed down the toilet. 

There has been no nationally agreed standard between makers, retailers and utilities to what equates flushability...until now.