State insurer icare has paid $235 million to a labour hire firm.

A community Facebook group called 4069 Community and Surrounds is bringing group members together as several people are posting about Peacocks on the loose. The posts started in December last year when someone posted saying Peacock spotted on the loose if anyone’s missing theirs.

QLD Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young says she is concerned that a large number of coronavirus cases continue to be detected among travelers from Papua New Guinea after another 5 cases were reported on Monday. The high rate of infections in Papua New Guinea has already been flagged as a risk to vulnerable communities in the Torres Strait where the vaccination rollout will be fast-tracked. 

State member for Whitsunday Amanda Camm has apologised after she failed to declare shares in several businesses run by her husband. Despite her claim that she was unaware she owned the shares in her husband’s companies, failure to register conflicts of interests makes Ms Camm liable to be called before the Parliamentary Ethics Committee. M

Queensland Pacific Metals say they may have found a way to make their planned Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub a net negative CO2 producer. The nickel refinery is set to produce 36% less CO2 than the industry average, with QPM saying it could take this into net negative territory if it can find a way to use methane from Queensland’s coal mines for extra CO2 credits. 

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is free to challenge current president Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s elections after his corruption conviction was annulled. Lula, who previously served as president from 2003 to 2011, was convicted in 2018 on corruption charges he denounced as politically motivated. 

Protests are ongoing in the Senegalese capital Dakar following opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s formal indictment on rape allegations.The protests began last week in response to Sonko being taken into police custody in what many see as a politically motivated attempt to suppress dissent. While they centre around Mr.

Former deputy leader Julie Bishop has criticised how senior Morrison government ministers have handled the sexual assault allegation raised by Brittany Higgins and the historical rape allegation against Christian Porter saying she would have felt a ‘duty’ to report an allegation of rape to the police. Speaking to ABC’s 7:30 Ms.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says supply issues are behind the state’s slow rollout of the AstraZaneca COVID-19 vaccine. The first two vaccine hubs opened on Monday in Logan and Bundaberg as Ms Palaszczuk says it can only be rolled out as fast as it’s being supplied and no concerns about this were raised in the national cabinet meeting last week.