The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

There’s just over a week to go before term one starts across the country – except in Queensland which has pushed back the start of the school year. We are yet to see states and territory plans for how to open schools safely, and to minimise the inevitable Omicron-induced teacher…

Victoria, NSW and Queensland say there are no plans to lower age, which PM had said was among proposals to ease supply chain workforce shortages

Simon Craft saw the number of international students at his school plummet from 300 to zero and says the return of quarantine-free travel this Saturday is "absolutely huge".

Schools are considering combining classes and using relief teachers as they plan for widespread Omicron absentees.

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Matt McCracken, who is a tetraplegic, is vulnerable if he is home without a carer, but finding one is now a dire problem for many people with disabilities as the Omicron outbreak spreads.

About 100 people gather to grieve at Charlise Mutten's primary school, near the NSW-Queensland border, as a murder investigation continues after the nine-year-old's body was found in a barrel earlier this week.

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Queensland's Opposition leader says he has received "deeply concerning" feedback about a hospital in the state's southeast and has called for action.