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.

The contamination scare resulted in a social media frenzy, with dozens of copycat cases reported to police across Australia.

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.

Some of the venues visited include Kmart, Vodafone, Telstra and JB Hi-Fi in Ipswich’s Riverlink shopping centre.

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.

The group have so far returned negative COVID-19 tests, but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk described the situation as disappointing.

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.

However, students at the prestigious Scots College, where school fees near $40,000 per year, have been allowed to send year nine students out of the lockdown.

The teenagers have been “relocated” to their Kangaroo Valley campus.

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

The health scare comes at an inconvenience with the president facing mass protests and a senate commission investigation into his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Recent polls show Bolsonaro’s popularity is slipping, in advance of elections scheduled for next year.

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.

Queensland's container refund scheme fails to meet its targets as an estimated half billion bottles and cans do not meet the recovery rate. 

A difference of 500 million containers not being recycled through the ten cent refund scheme has not met the required targets to be achieved for the year. Potentially leading to the scheme's termination.

Despite only reaching 61% increase in recycled containers, Containers for Change says it is proud of the ambitious goal of reaching 85%, which would make them Australia’s best container recycling state.

Soccer fixtures and training in Brisbane have been thrown into chaos by a managerial dispute between the Queensland and Brisbane governing bodies.

Football Brisbane said it had to suspend games because it was no longer covered by Football Queensland's insurance.

Football Queensland assured players training and games could still proceed however numerous matches were cancelled as a result of the mixed messages.