Queenslanders will never know how much taxpayer money was spent to head off Qantas’s threat to move its heavy maintenance facility in the state.

Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne will spend almost four years in a jail cell for the shocking rape of a woman who bravely stared down her attacker in court and declared: “I am destroyed and damaged, but still standing”.

Queenslanders returning from NSW who have visited COVID exposure sites will be forced into hotel quarantine at their own expense in a dramatic escalation of the state’s response to Sydney’s latest outbreak.

And everyday Queensland mums have revealed what they actually want for Mother’s Day and, unsurprisingly, they aren’t too fussy at all.

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