HUNDREDS of thousands of documents relating to the performance of ministers, links to lobbyists and convictions of police officers have been kept secret from Queenslanders. A new study has found SMACKING children can traumatise them to the same level as severe violent abuse. The man behind Australia’s cervical cancer vaccine is ­backing a Brisbane company’s potential wonder drug that is being tested as a treatment for COVID-19. A woman who lied about being in a COVID-19 hotspot when she returned to Queensland unknowingly infected with the virus has been sentenced to 40 hours community service.

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