 A new South Wales State recorded its biggest daily rise in COVID-19 infections this year. Sydney, the new South Wales State's capital and home to a ffifth of Australia's 25 million population, has been the hardest hit with a highly contagious Delta variant. An NSW Premier Gladys Ebertig Cleon reported 35 new cases, 29 of which were linked to previous cases, and Sydney is halfway through a two-week lockdown, and Ebertig Cleon said it was still too early to make a decision on whether to extend the lockdown. So whilst, as predicted, the number of cases are going up, we're seeing a greater proportion of those cases in isolation, which is exactly what we want to see. So the green shoots are there. The green shoots of the lockdown doing what we hoped it would is certainly there. We haven't seen a huge surge in cases, and we certainly feel through our contact tracing that we're not at this stage missing any chains of community transmission, but it is really up to us. So the lockdown will end at 6pm tonight, but we are not out of the woods yet. So I want to talk about a few things that I really need Queenslanders to do, especially in the southeast and of course Townsville. Now we're all in this together, and we've got to have our trust in one another, and we've got to act as a community together.