One new local COVID case detected in home quarantine and is linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. 

There was also one new overseas acquired case — detected in hotel quarantine.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says "What we are seeing is the continual escalation of cases in New South Wales and Victoria, and we have to try and keep Queensland as safe as possible but we are very concerned that there could be another outbreak at any day,"

Residents in Ascot fear that a proposed unit development will see them lose their city views and hundreds of thousands of dollars from their house values.

The initial 86-unit plan, lodged in 2019, was rejected by the Brisbane City Council, but the decision has since been appealed.

Jason Powell, who challenged the development, says that when he bought the house in 2016 he was assured by a town planner that only a two-level building could be built on the land behind his house.

The Queensland Government is accused of abandoning residents affected by drywood termite.

Various Queensland towns and suburbs, including Brisbane's bayside suburbs, all have slow-spreading infestations of the invasive West Indian drywood termite.

The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries ended the free fumigation program which paid for any outbreaks to be treated.

This week South Australia will begin trials of home quarantine for travellers returning from Victoria and New South Wales.

Premier Steven Marshall said geo-location and facial recognition software will be used to track people quarantining.

Mr Marshall says, “As we have more people in quarantine, it’s going to be very, very resource-intensive to have the police going around and checking, so instead we’re going to be using technology to trial.”

If successful, other states will follow this home-based quarantine scheme.

Police have issued thirty-five thousand dollars in fines after a large group of people illegally gathered at a church in Blacktown, New South Wales. 

Around sixty people were inside the church, both adults and children from various local government areas of concern. 

Thirty attendees received a thousand dollar penalty infringement notices and the organisation was fined five thousand dollars.

President Joe Biden says the United States is considering extending the Afghanistan evacuation timeline.  

There are still upto fifteen thousand Americans alone who need to be evacuated from the country, along with fifty to sixty thousand Afghan allies.

Mr Bidan says he’s hoping that the operation would not have to be extended as a lot still could go wrong. 

The US says it is facing threats from ISIS in and around the airport.

Concerns are rising over the ongoing emergency health services crisis in Queensland.

Ambulance ramping, which when paramedics are required to continue care for patients in the ambulance, has grown to greater than 50% in eight Queensland hospitals.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has said the Labor Government is, “losing control of the health system.”

Queenslanders living with a disability will now be able to access a website for the latest advice and information on a range of support services.

The Minister for Families and Social Services, Anne Ruston, says the National Disability Gateway is a fast, easy to use and ‘one stop shop’ website.