Queenslanders will find out today whether the snap 3-day lockdown will come to an end, or if it will be extended over Easter.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will address the state in a press conference from 9am. 

Airlines will release over 800,000 half price airline tickets today as part of the government's one-point-two billion-dollar tourism package. 

The flights aim to get Australians travelling and include return travel to the Whitsundays, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. 

Queensland has confirmed 2 new locally acquired COVID cases and 1 new case in hotel quarantine.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is urging all Queenslanders to get tested if they show any symptoms to ensure the outbreak has been contained during Brisbane’s lockdown. 

Brisbane residents risk forking out a one thousand three hundred dollar fine if they decide to travel out of the greater Brisbane region before the COVID-19 lockdown period ends on Thursday afternoon.

Council-owned caravan parks on the Gold and Sunshine coasts have been advised to refuse requests for entry from anyone in Greater Brisbane during the lockdown period.

A leaked report has revealed The Adani Group is paying up to $68 million to a Myanmar military-controlled company. 

Footage has also emerged showing Adani Ports' boss meeting with the junta's top general in 2019 contradicting the company's claim that it had never "engaged with military leadership" in Myanmar.

Scott Morrison will later today announce plans to develop a 1 billion dollar weapons manufacturing facility. 

This is one such project in the federal government's plan to invest $270 billion dollars in military and defence projects over the next ten years. 

Bolmo elders are calling for the closure of Gunlom falls, Kakadu in the Northern Territory amid a court battle over infringement of a sacred site.

Parks Australia is facing charges for carrying out work on a sacred site near the Gunlom Falls infinity pool.

The World Health Organisation has accused China of withholding data from investigators who travelled to the country to investigate the origins of COVID-19. 

All Queensland health care workers are set to receive a COVID vaccine in the next 48 hours.

The announcement has come after the Greater Brisbane region was sent into a three-day lock down following a cluster of positive cases detected in the community.