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Heading homeMedicos dodge Sydney hotel quarantine

Almost 30 medical professionals have dodged strict quarantine laws after flying in from Chile then boarding interstate flights despite being ordered to self-isolate at Sydney hotels for 14 days.

Linda Silmalis

From the editorRNA to become makeshift ward if COVID-19 beats hospitals

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Kelvin Healey

ElectionSchrinner a winner despite results meltdown

Adrian Schrinner is confident he has won the race for Brisbane Lord Mayor despite a farcical results fail when the ECQ’s website melted down, revealing barely any of the vote count.

Domanii Cameron, Tanya French and Thomas Morgan

Race for a cureThe ‘Badass’ heroes waging war on killer virus

Stacey Cheung is urgently working every day with one goal: To save millions of lives. The UQ laboratory manager is part of a team racing to find a COVID-19 vaccine and has given a raw insight into one of the world’s most important jobs.

Stacey Cheung

CourtMillionaire in legal fight to move pool... two metres

A millionaire Queenslander is taking Brisbane City Council to court in a bid to get the green light to move one of the two swimming pools on his $11.3 million inner-city block of land two metres.

Vanda Carson

Short supply’Very dangerous’: Docs’ dire warning over masks

As the federal government stockpiles millions of masks, leading Queensland doctors have warned they are dangerously short of essential protective gear to shield them from coronavirus.

NATASHA BITA

CoronavirusSmall acts making huge difference to virus frontline

Random acts of kindness are going viral, with the number of positive tests for COVID-19 outstripped by cases of strangers offering a helping hand to the elderly, vulnerable and socially isolated in society, and the healthcare workers on the frontline.

Michelle Collins

First contactThe masked hero leading our frontline virus fight

Meet the first doctor in the state to come face-to-face with coronavirus when it landed in Queensland. Luckily for us, he’d been preparing for the moment for a long time.

Jackie Sinnerton

SURVEILLANCERatepayer funds used to snoop on neighbourhood disputes

A southeast Queensland council has admitted it has used cameras at least five times to gather evidence in neighbourhood disputes, and experts say it’s totally legal.

Thomas Morgan

CoronavirusSecret plan to turn Ekka into makeshift hospital

Health authorities are actively exploring a plan to convert showgrounds, mining camps and hotels into makeshift ICUs if high numbers of coronavirus victims flood the state’s permanent hospitals.

Dan Knowles

Tough timesHanson calls for a cut to pollie perks

Pauline Hanson has broken ranks with the nation’s politicians to call for pollie perks to be culled and taxpayer-funded fat cats to take a financial haircut as more Australians contract coronavirus.

Renee Viellaris

COVID-19 chaosHealth industry floored by cruise ship plan

The State’s medical community has been left reeling by revelations private hospitals will be required to treat scores of German cruise ship passengers and crew infected with COVID-19.

Josh Zimmerman and Joe Spagnolo

Piers AkermanDoomsday tweets and wishful thinking won’t get us through this

If you listen to social media and Twitter, you’d think the coronavirus is the end of the world. Thank goodness our government responses are based on expert economic and medical advice, not on the ABC’s wishful thinking, writes Piers Akerman.

Piers Akerman

Alone at seaFour die on cruise ship stuck off Panama coast

The Zaandam is currently carrying 138 people who have complained of flu-like symptoms, which are similar to coronavirus symptoms.

Behind the scenesMcGowan: A day in the life of a ‘wartime’ premier

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of Western Australia, Premier Mark McGowan found himself in charge of steering the state through an international crisis. Here is what that looks like.

Joe Spagnolo

tell-all interviewCousins ‘sorry for creating Eagles drug culture’

Ben Cousins has apologised to West Coast for helping cultivate the drug culture that derailed the powerhouse club for several years.

Sam Landsberger and Fiona Byrne

Brutal blowR.M Williams joins long list of Aussie stores forced to shut

More popular Australian fashion stores have joined R.M Williams, Country Road, Cotton On and Myer in temporarily closing their stores, with thousands of desperate workers out of a job.

Maria Bervanakis, Shoba Rao, Rhiannon Down

Coronavirus‘Let them eat chocolate’: Top doc’s free pigout pass

Chocolate is not normally what the doctor ordered but these are not normal times.

rebecca DiGirolamo

State pollsBy-election results: Labor in box seat for Ipswich seat

Labor looks set to keep its safe Ipswich state seat of Bundamba and the LNP is tracking ahead in the crucial Gold Coast seat of Currumbin in the hard-fought by-elections. SEE THE RESULTS HERE

Jessica Marszalek and Shiloh Payne

TV GuideSurvivor’s last man standing pays high price for TV act

He’s called the ‘Golden God’ but David Genat – the favourite to win 10’s Australian Survivor: All Stars – has gone through some brutal back-to-back TV appearances.

Holly Byrnes

Criminal freedAussie war criminal torturer set free - to go into virus lockdown

He grew up in Australia as a teenager, but went to fight in the war in Croatia. He was sent to jail for his shocking war crimes - but now he is free.

Stephen Drill in London

Exclusive‘Doctors will die’: Dire warning over PPE shortages

Our state’s hospitals are not only in a desperate battle against COVID-19 infections but thieving visitors stealing precious supplies of hand sanitisers and face masks. It comes as top medicos warn doctors will die from infections. HOSPITALS HIT

Linda Silmalis and Jane Hansen

Save our jobsPM, we need wage guarantees, not millions on the dole

In wartime, economies of nations gear up to produce weapons, tanks, planes, munitions and supplies. Here, precisely the opposite is happening. We are shutting down, with devastating cascading effects.

Gareth Parker

Locked insideAussie girl’s life inside the COVID-19 death centre

Masks are worn on the streets and the supermarket run has felt like a game of Russian roulette. This is Melbourne-born Olivia Windsor’s new life in Italy’s coronavirus epicentre.

Stephen Drill