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People in home quarantine will be forced to respond to a text message within 10 minutes to ensure they're complying with stay-at-home orders. Health Minister Yvette D'Ath announced the new strict check-in measures during State Parliament saying from today, people in home quarantine will be texted randomly giving them 10 minutes...

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is issuing a call to arms for Queenslanders to join the “jab army” and get vaccinated. “We’ve had the mud army, we’ve had the care army and now I summon Queenslanders to sign up to the jab army,” Ms Palaszczuk told State Parliament. “The only way we protect ourselves...

Operations at a Central Queensland mine have ceased while investigations get under way into the nature and cause of a fatal underground collapse. A section of wall or ceiling collapsed at Gregory Crinum mine, north of Emerald on Tuesday night. A man in his 60s was tragically killed and two other people...

A man has been airlifted from a vessel after a falling metal object possibly fractured his arm. The RACQ Capricorn Rescue helicopter was called out to the vessel 'Grebe Arrow' at 9:50am yesterday. A spokesperson for the service says "a metal object fell and collided with his arm ... resulting in suspected...

A car has crashed into a tree in the Central Highlands overnight. A man suffered minor head injuries during the incident on Macaulay Road in Emerald at 8:40pm. Queensland Ambulance report he was taken to Emerald Hospital in a stable condition.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced Queenslanders over 60 will be able to get the Pfizer vaccine from any of the state-run clinics from this weekend In a social media post, Ms Palaszczuk says this weekend all Queensland Health hubs will be open and walk-ins are welcome.  “In response to Delta, we’re also...