The Palaszczuk Government proposal to run a regional quarantine centre fails to provide critical details including where any COVID-19 patients would be treated. It s understood the Morrison Government has requested significantly more detail on the Queensland proposal even as Deputy Premier Steven Miles said yesterday the issue was largely in the federal government s court now . The Courier-Mail can reveal Queensland s current proposal was presented largely in dot points and lacked crucial detail about how the facility would operate and its impact on the local community.   Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been repeatedly calling for the federal government to support a proposal for a 1000-bed facility to be built near to Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport.
Inquest to hear man stabbed himself before he was Tasered twice
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An inquest into the death of Ashley Thomas Horne, who stabbed himself and was Tasered by police twice near his ex-partner s home, will be held in March.
The Coroner s Court of Queensland on Wednesday heard that Mr Horne s former partner had phoned triple zero after she saw the 49-year-old in her backyard in Toowoomba late at night in March 2018. at 11pm on March 30, 2018.
An inquest into the death of Ashley Thomas Horne will be heard in March.
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A STOLEN car collided with another vehicle on the Warrego Highway at Helidon on Tuesday.
It is understood that at 11.30am, police were trying to intercept the stolen vehicle that had travelled from the Ipswich and Laidley areas, before it collided with another car.
Two elderly men who were passengers in the other vehicle, were transported to the Toowoomba Base Hospital with minor injuries, but in a stable condition.
A spokeswoman from the Queensland Ambulance Service said the two men, aged in their late 70s and early 80s sustained injuries from their seatbelts.
Senior Sergeant Robyn Taylor-Ward said investigations were continuing into the stolen vehicle and its driver.
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Subscriber only A CAMPING trip gone wrong led to an 18-year-old man running his car off the Warrego Highway and the discovery of several drugs in the Hello Fresh worker s system. Mark Rowley pleaded guilty in the Gatton Magistrates Court on Monday after he was charged in July with two offences, which were driving under the influence of drugs and driving without due care and attention. Police prosecutor senior Sergeant Al Windsor said Rowley ran his car off the road at 2.40am on July 9, when he was travelling east on the Warrego Highway. Rowley s Nissan X-Trail left the road and entered the median strip after losing traction and rolled through 30 meters of vegetation before coming to a standstill on the western lanes of the highway, Sergeant Windsor said.