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Subscriber only THE Queensland Government has hit fast-forward on a $26.4m emergency department expansion at Cairns Hospital but the LNP s health crisis roadshow scheduled for Thursday has been cancelled. Opposition Leader David Crisafulli was due in Cairns to host a town hall forum at the Cairns Showground from 9.30am after a packed house at the Sunshine Coast s own event on Wednesday. However, due to the recent Covid-19 case detected in the Sunshine Coast, Mr Crisafulli confirmed his trip to the Far North had been postponed. Unfortunately this event will be postponed after the chief health officer advised a Covid positive case visited Caloundra this week.
Editorial: Why on Earth didnât couple just stay home? A sleepy Sunshine Coast town has been plunged into fear after yet another Covid-19 emergency that could have been avoided, writes the Courier Mail editor.
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Premium Content EDITORIAL Victorians doing the Gundy Run to sneak over the Queensland border has become a standing joke over the past 15 months in the southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi. But as the latest Covid-19 scare now gripping the tourism industry and the Sunshine Coast shows, selfishly ignoring the rules and bringing Covid-19 into Queensland is no laughing matter. On the coldest day of the year, the pensioners and vulnerable are being forced out of their homes and into long freezing queues to get Covid-tested because a couple from Victoria appear to have ignored the rules and crossed into Queensland without an exemption, before heading out to cafes and shopping centres across Caloun