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UPDATE 4.30PM: The owner of a utility which was allegedly used in a high-speed spree across the Sunshine Coast says GPS technology helped him track the vehicle. DSE Civil Electrical director Darryl Rankin said he had tracked his allegedly stolen Toyota HiLux from his Warana shopfront to a Gardak Street, Maroochydore address. Mr Rankin said it was a young man behind the wheel of the utility which went roaring out of his shop s driveway about 12pm. He said the GPS tracker helped police follow the man s many movements and eventually catch him. DSE Civil Electrical director Darryl Rankin. Picture: Patrick Woods
The federal government is poised to tip in half the cash for a major upgrade of one of the region’s worst intersections.
The Coast’s budget windfall was revealed by Federal MPs Ted O’Brien and Andrew Wallace ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget.
The Morrison Government will allocate $160 million, half of the $320 million required to deliver the long-awaited Mooloolah River Interchange.
Fairfax MP Ted O’Brien said the interchange was a state government responsibility, but the federal government was stepping in after “too much talk and too little action”.
The state government has spent $7.5 million on a detailed business case with the preferred option including:
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has laid out her government s funding demands from the upcoming federal budget due to be handed down on Tuesday. Chief on her wish list for the Sunshine Coast was a significant federal contribution towards the long-awaited Mooloolah River Interchange and a $20 million commitment to deliver Sunshine Coast Stadium expansion. On Sunday Ms Palaszczuk released the list of measures her government wanted to see in Tuesday s budget. The Premier and Treasurer Cameron Dick called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to deliver for Queensland, citing the mass migration to the state, with figures showing more than 80 people a day shifted to Queensland in 2020, which they said demanded federal support.
It came after Queensland Health announced earlier this week it was confident it had found the missing link in the first of two Brisbane clusters. Queensland Health released a list of venues the case had visited, which included several on the Sunshine Coast which had been released to the public earlier this week. The following locations have been listed by Queensland Health as close contacts. If you have been to any of the below locations at the relevant times you should quarantine for 14 days and complete the contact tracing self-assessment. Monday, March 22: KCF Training, Birtinya from 9.15am-11.30am. Monday, March 22: Plus Fitness, Minyama from 2.30pm-3.30pm.
Across the state only three new cases were detected in the last 24 hours with two of those in hospital quarantine and one a community transmission case. The community transmission case was a man who had visited Black Hops Brewery in East Brisbane last month. He tested positive while in quarantine and had quarantined during his entire infectious period. Black Hops Brewery had been added as a close contact site on Saturday March 20 between 12pm and 2pm. Queensland s chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said testing numbers had again been high on Friday and she hoped that continued for the next two weeks.