Witness recounts horror as tradie with critical burns named The tradie fighting for life with severe electrical burns after a horror workplace accident on the Gold Coast has been identified as a father of two.
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Subscriber only He is James Jimmy Badcock, 34, a father of two, including a new baby girl, and a keen surfer originally from the Sunshine Coast. Mr Badcock and a colleague were installing solar panels at an Ashmore shopping centre on Tuesday when they suffered severe electrical burns. He remains in a critical but stable condition in the burns unit in the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital.
Queenslanders need to be given as much notice as possible if the border to New South Wales is slammed shut, Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates has warned. The comment comes amid chaotic scenes at the Victoria-NSW border as Victorians rushing to get back across the New South Wales border to beat a snap government deadline were met with mammoth several-hour delays. The deadline, announced yesterday amid a rise in coronavirus cases in Melbourne - an outbreak spread from Sydney - caused lengthy traffic jams and confusion, turning highways into car parks. Â
NSW-Vic border tonight. Six hours to go about 20km. pic.twitter.com/AcqaG8IXmTâ Louise Milligan (@Milliganreports) December 31, 2020