Received

The Queensland premier will not "necessarily" open the state borders once 80 per cent of eligible people are vaccinated, saying hospitals need to be ready for a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused the premier of using the border to "extort" him for more health funding.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk denied that, saying Queensland has signed a letter with all other states and territories calling for a rethink on health funding.

"These are pressures that are being felt right around the country, that's why the health ministers wrote that letter to the federal health minister," she told reporters.

"These are extraordinary times, and the pressures are not unique, and other premiers also raised these issues at national cabinet."

The premier said the states had been raising the issue of federal health funding since before the pandemic began.

Queensland hospitals are already facing huge capacity pressures without a large virus outbreak in the state.

The Australian reported on Tuesday there were 31 'code yellows' - when hospitals start to run out of beds and ambulances are forced to divert to other emergency departments - in September.

The state Liberal National Party has also revealed Queensland Health data showing 60 per cent of patients spend more than 30 minutes 'ramping', or waiting in the back of ambulances to be treated.

Ms Palaszczuk said opening the borders was not solely tied to federal health funding.

She also said it would not be automatic once 80 per cent of eligible Queenslanders were fully vaccinated.

"Not necessarily, it depends on the situation of the day. It depends on what's happening in NSW and Victoria. So we are watching all of those issues very closely," she said.

The prime minister said earlier there was already enough federal funding for state hospitals.

Mr Morrison accused the premier of using border closure to "extort" him.

"I'm just calling it as I see it," he told Nine's Today program.

"To suggest that they're not going to open the borders unless I send them cash, how else would you like me to call it?"

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath stressed that all states and territories were making a joint push for fresh talks on federal funding, not just her state.

It was incorrect for the prime minister to categorise the health funding debate as a Queensland issue, she said.

"This is a national conversation, it's not a fight between the Commonwealth and Queensland," Ms D'Ath said.

"It is every single state and territory, saying that our health system was under extensive pressure and demand prior to COVID that required a rethink in the funding model going forward."

Federal Health Secretary Brendan Murphy said most states and territories were "comfortable" with reopening plans and a 100-page document presented to national cabinet shows the hospital system will cope.

However, he said the document was being kept confidential by national cabinet.

"I would favour a transparent approach, but national cabinet will make that decision," Prof Murphy said.

© AAP 2021

A contrite Cameron Munster hopes to win his "battle" with alcohol by entering a treatment facility to help rebuild his future with NRL club Melbourne.

The Storm warned on Tuesday that the star playmaker was on his last chance after post-season video emerged of him partying with a white powder.

Munster, as well as Storm teammates Brandon Smith and Chris Lewis, were sanctioned by the NRL for their antics following their finals exit.

Issued with NRL breach notices on Tuesday alleging they brought the game into disrepute, the trio will miss the 2022 season opener and face various fines, with Munster hardest hit with a $30,000 penalty.

Warriors teenager Reece Walsh faces a two-game ban and a $5000 fine after his Gold Coast arrest which has led to a drug investigation.

Accepting the sanctions, the Melbourne players read statements to the media on Tuesday with Munster admitting he had had a "difficult relationship" with alcohol.

"I thought I'd dealt with this issue but clearly I still have some hurdles to overcome," said Munster, who is due to become a father in December.

"I made the decision in consultation with the club doctor to seek some help with this battle.

"Starting tomorrow, I'll be attending a treatment facility for the next four weeks.

"I know I've let a lot of people down ... hopefully you'll see by my actions that I'm dedicated to change."

Storm boss Justin Rodski said his players hadn't admitted taking any drugs and the NRL was unable to test them for illicit substances in the off-season.

"The findings from the NRL integrity unit haven't produced any evidence to suggest what was in the video," Rodski said.

"Through excessive consumption of alcohol and intoxication the players have limited memory of what did or didn't take place in that hotel room.

He defended the lightweight one-game bans and said the "totality of sanctions and penalties handed down across the NRL and the club were significant and serious".

Melbourne have also put Munster on a 12-month booze ban, fined him $100,000 fully suspended and axed him from the leadership group.

Rodski said if the representative five-eighth breached the alcohol ban he would cop the hefty fine and face the Storm's board which would decide his fate.

Asked if the 27-year-old was on his last chance after previous disciplinary issues Rodski replied: "I think you could take from this that he is, yes."

The Storm chief executive said it was "premature" to discuss letting Munster walk at the end of 2022 to join the expansion club in Brisbane.

New Zealand international Smith revealed his family had been targeted on social media platforms since the video.

"I know I have let a lot of people down, especially my family," Smith said.

"I'm sorry for all the criticism you guys have received over social media platforms, which is probably the most painful and heartbreaking thing I've had to deal with."

NRL boss Andrew Abdo said the four players, who would also undergo education and training, had let the rugby league community down.

© AAP 2021

Facebook Inc has blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Several Facebook employees who declined to be named had told Reuters earlier that they believed that the outage was caused by an internal mistake in how internet traffic is routed to its systems.

The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees said. Security experts have said an inadvertent mistake or sabotage by an insider were both plausible.

"We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change," Facebook said in the blog.

The Facebook outage is the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector.

The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritising profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.

On Sunday, Frances Haugen, who worked as a product manager on the civic misinformation team at Facebook, revealed that she was the whistleblower who provided documents underpinning a recent Wall Street Journal investigation and a US Senate hearing last week on Instagram's harm to teen girls.

As the world flocked to competing apps such as Twitter and TikTok, shares of Facebook fell 4.9 per cent, their biggest daily drop since November, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks on Monday. Shares rose about half a per cent in after-hours trade following resumption of service.

"To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry," Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted, adding that it "may take some time to get to 100 per cent."

"Facebook basically locked its keys in its car," tweeted Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Twitter on Monday reported higher-than-normal usage, which led to some issues in people accessing posts and direct messages.

Facebook, which is the world's largest seller of online ads after Google, was losing about $US545,000 ($A747,880) in US ad revenue per hour during the outage, according to estimates from ad measurement firm Standard Media Index.

Past downtime at internet companies has had little long-term affect on their revenue growth, however.

Facebook's services, including consumer apps such as Instagram, workplace tools it sells to businesses and internal programs, went dark at midsay on Monday, US Eastern time Access started to return about five hours and 45 minutes later.

Soon after the outage started, Facebook acknowledged users were having trouble accessing its apps but did not provide any specifics about the nature of the problem or say how many users were affected.

The error message on Facebook's webpage suggested an error in the Domain Name System (DNS), which allows web addresses to take users to their destinations. A similar outage at cloud company Akamai Technologies Inc took down multiple websites in July.

© AP 2021