A 12-member taskforce has been formed to determine how many additional police need to be recruited in the next decade and what traditional roles can be handed to non-sworn officers to help alleviate the resourcing crisis. General medical practices have plenty of vaccines in stock as people 50 and over become eligible for a fourth jab from Monday, but officials warn people need to book.

The hospital system is lurching from chaos to more chaos this morning with a six-hour average wait to be seen at two major hospitals’ emergency departments. A world record has been shattered in the Queensland Outback with thousands of people  boot-scooting their way into the history books.

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