Queensland s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.
Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they really needed to open their front door or go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.
Queensland recorded 16 new local Covid cases on Wednesday including a mystery case in Cairns that has a different, unknown source to the main outbreak in Brisbane 1,600km away.
The Delta strain outbreak that began last week now has 100 cases in the state, more than at any time since Australia s first Covid wave early last year.
RPM Automotive Group acquires Queensland automotive businesses, lands $1.8 million option underwriting agreement
The group will add two Queensland-based automotive businesses to its portfolio in a $500,000 deal. The group has acquired two businesses and will open a distribution centre as part of its growth strategy.
RPM Automotive Group Ltd (ASX:RPM) has acquired two businesses and announced it will open a new distribution centre to grow its operations in Far North Queensland.
Carline Automotive - Cairns and Carline Automotive and Revolution Racegear - Townsville will join the RPM group as part of ASX-lister’s growth strategy in a $500,000 deal.
The businesses will be integrated into RPM’s performance and accessories division, effective August 1, 2021, while the Townsville distribution centre expands RPM’s distribution footprint.
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A Who s Who of Australian media was dragged into a defamation court case about a sacked rugby league reporter who threatened to rip off a junior staffer s head and defecate down his neck.
NSW District Court Judge Judith Gibson last week threw out a lawsuit by ex-Seven News journalist Josh Massoud after hearing evidence from former TV anchor Jim Wilson, Seven News boss Jason Morrison and former presenter Ryan Phelan.
Massoud had taken News Corp, Nine, KIIS FM, Radio 2GB and Fox Sports to court, variously claiming the news outlets had defamed him as a bully and someone who threatens and intimidates colleagues, in 16 articles published in 2018 and 2019.
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Officers then received reports that a man had driven off in the car at about 2.30am.
The car was driven at least 50km southeast of Townsville with police deploying road spikes to try to stop it at Alligator Creek.
Two left hand tyres were blown but the car travelled back to the city where it drove into the army s Lavarack Barracks and crashed into another police car.
A 24-year-old Mount Low man has been arrested and is being questioned by police.
Police had to deploy road spikes to try stop the car that was driven at least 50km southeast of Townsville