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Luke Williams is a police and crime reporter for The Advertiser. He previously covered courts for the Cairns Post.

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Mornington Island State School is short on teachers and unable to attract them to the isolated community, so how will the government implement a new program that will feature small-group and one-on-one teaching?

Girl, 15, allegedly stabs man on Far North Qld island

Police are investigating after a 15-year-old girl reportedly stabbed a man on Mornington Island.

Cairns

Man ‘unintentionally’ shot at by police on new charges

The Millstream man who was “unintentionally” shot at by police has been charged with fraud after allegedly being caught with four illegally obtained bank cards.

Cairns

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 21, 2024 shows Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (L) during a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2023 and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing a cabinet meeting at the Israeli Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2023.. The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Karim Khan said on May 20, 2024, that he had applied for arrest warrants for alleged war crimes of top Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu and Gallant. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI and ABIR SULTAN / various sources / AFP)

ICC charges akin to ‘holocaust denial’ say Indigenous Friends of Israel

Cairns group “Indigenous Friends of Israel” say the ICC’s decision shows international humanitarian agencies are being sucked into believing “Hamas propaganda”. Do you agree?Watch the interview.

Cairns

Staff escort prisoners through Queensland; Lotus Glen Correctional Centre. The male prison with a capacity to detain roughly 730 prisoners, over half of whom are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners. Picture: Daniel Soekov for Human Rights Watch

Hundreds kept in Queensland jails because of housing crisis

Justice advocates say the housing crisis is keeping Queensland prisoners locked up with a third of parole applications denied because they have nowhere to live.

Cairns

Man stole car then towed ATM from servo

A 27-year-old man who cut off his parole ankle monitor and then created a “one-man crime wave” has been sentenced in the Cairns Supreme Court.

Cairns

Shock twist in police officer’s rape trial

The case for the police officer who is accused of “drinking heavily” at a Cairns hotel before raping a woman, has taken a surprising turn.

Cairns

Duress alarms installed for teachers in remote community

Twelve teachers in a remote community in the Gulf of Carpentaria have had been given duress alarms and had heat sensors installed in their homes as school violence escalates.

Cairns

National Reconciliation Week breakfast with former Young Australian of the Year Tania Major at Queensland Rural Medical Education, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Photo Kevin Farmer / The Chronicle

Govt gave job services company $50m as town’s unemployment doubled

A Sydney-based multinational company received a five-fold increase in funding to reduce unemployment in a Far North community but the towns’ unemployment rate more than doubled.

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How non-violent, mentally unwell prisoners are placed in solitary

Special investigation: For the first time we reveal the practice of placing mentally unwell prisoners into solitary – where they deteriorate, attempting to take their life and eating their own excretement.

Cairns

Alleged stabber facing fresh charges

The man accused of stabbing three people at an entertainment venue in Cairns has been charged with four new offences.

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