Fury as group of foster parents are booted out of a hotel for NRL teams, along with a bride-to-be

Outrage over cancelled hotel bookings because of the arrival of NRL teams in Queensland is growing after it was revealed a foster parents' conference had been told to make way for star players. Queensland Foster and Kinship Care, a child protection charity that provides foster homes for children who have experienced harm, was told that the conference it had organised at Twin Waters Novotel Resort on the Sunshine Coast, would need to be cancelled because the NRL had now booked the resort. because of a bigger, better agreement, I guess' Mr Smith said up to 10,000 children in Queensland require home-based foster care, with only around 5.600 families currently providing alternative homes for children at risk of harm Mr Smith revealed that the conference, which was scheduled for July 29-31 at the resort, had already been rescheduled twice due to earlier Covid lockdowns. Young couple Kathryn McDowell and Andrew Hettige had planned to stay at the Novotel resort in Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast before their booking was cancelled at the last minute to accommodate NRL teams The bridal party have been forced to find accommodation elsewhere after losing their rooms at the Twin Waters Novotel Resort to make way for pampered NRL players However, the hotel will now accommodate four NRL teams - the Penrith Panthers, Manly Sea Eagles, Newcastle Knights, and Sydney Roosters - for quarantine. Novotel Twin Waters Resort is a four star luxury beachfron resort on the Sunshine Coast New Zealand Warriors players are seen arriving into Queensland which has become a safe haven for NRL clubs during the pandemic The NRL has moved shift 12 clubs into southeast Queensland for at least a month to escape NSW amid an alarming increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.