Lockdowns will be abolished if authorities are able to start managing Covid-19 like the flu, with the country’s top doctor declaring Australians will need to learn how to live with the mutating virus. 

Queensland is grappling with a “fast-moving” coronavirus situation leaving more than 1.5 million locked-down residents in limbo amid an escalating number of community acquired cases. 

Working families with children are sleeping in tents as Queensland’s housing crisis deepens with thousands of desperate tenants competing for rental listings. 

At least one Queensland child is dying by suicide every month, as experts warn the state is in the grip of a youth mental health crisis. 

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