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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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School violence scourge: Hate speech, gang attack algorithms

A leading Cairns principal says social media algorithms promoting ‘hate speech and gang violence’ is leading to trouble in schools.

Cairns

A crocodile basking on the bank of the Pioneer River. generic.

Women flee on canoes from ‘aggressive’ crocodile

Two women who paddled to a fisherman’s tinnie to escape an “aggressive” crocodile north of Cairns are shaken up but pragmatic after the encounter.

Cairns

Police are seeking assistance to identify a young girl found alone in Smithfield on Friday night. Photo: Supplied

Smithfield’s lost girl parents found

Police were seeking public assistance in identifying a young girl who was found in Smithfield April 19.

Cairns

Mornington Island Mayor Kyle Yanner said the $300,000 funding for the Sustainable Family Program will support healthy families and wellbeing in the community and safer family environments. Picture: Supplied

$60 for baby formula, $1000 to fill a trolley: Remote Queenslanders resort to crime to eat

People are selling drugs or sly alcohol, breaking into shops and letting the electricity go out just so they can eat, as cost of living soars in remote Far North Queensland, townspeople say.

Cairns

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 16, 2024: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price during the Cross-Portfolio Indigenous Matters Senate estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Robbed of a future’: Senator, former mayor clash over Aurukun

LNP Senator Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price says the social problems in the Far North Queensland town of Aurukun stem from “parts of traditional culture”, while others lay blame on a disastrous history of government intervention.

Cairns

New laws creating watch-house hell for officers advocates say

Youth advocates say they know what’s behind the series of shocking attacks on officers in the Cairns watch-house.

Cairns

‘Everybody loved him’: Tributes for loved biologist, teacher who died at waterfall

Grieving friends have told how a water-loving marine biologist and volunteer teacher had plans to become an Australian citizen before he fell from a Queensland waterfall and tragically died.

Cairns

Kieran Ryan was a teacher at Mt St Bernard College at Herberton

Catholic school deputy principal charged with sexual assault

The deputy principal at Mount St Bernard College in Herberton has been charged with sexual assault.

Cairns

Indigenous children are being removed from their families at ever increasing rates across the state.

Action against state over Indigenous child removal

A landmark, mammoth class action against the Queensland Government claims thousands of Indigenous children were removed and wrongly not returned to their families.

Cairns

Ronald Baxter Atu has repeatedly been caught with images of pre-pubescent boys.

Student caught with 100,000 child abuse images busted again

A Cairns university student has been caught again with child abuse material while on probation – having previously served time for being busted with an extraordinary number of child abuse images.

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