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A 19-year-old was arrested in July after allegedly riding an illegal bike down Elizabeth Street in Brisbane.

Riders may be forced to register electric scooters, bikes

Police also told a parliamentary inquiry that reclassifying the devices as motor vehicles would help unlock more powers to deal with their use on roads.

  • Matt Dennien

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E-bike laws are set to be reformed after two primary school students were killed in separate accidents in different Australian states.

More than a dozen hospitalised overnight in e-scooter crash spike

The accidents, most in the south-east, coincide with the resumption of a public inquiry into the vehicles’ safety and enforcement next week.

  • Matt Dennien
Trans advocates and supporters addressed media outside Brisbane’s Supreme Court after a judge ruled the government’s ban on gender-services in January was unlawful.

Health Minister still reviewing report on child gender services, as more than 400 sign petition

A review into Queensland’s gender services for young people was finalised a week ago, but the health minister said he is yet to finish reading it.

  • Courtney Kruk
Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls said a 10-day blitz to crackdown on illegal vapes and tobaccos across Queensland has led to the closure of 148 stores and seized $15.7 million worth of illegal products.

$15m in goods seized, 148 Qld stores closed during 10-day tobacco blitz

The statewide crackdown was the largest-ever operation against illicit tobacco and vape retailers in Australia.

  • Courtney Kruk
Radiation therapists who walked out of Princess Alexandra Hospital on Wednesday in protest of the pay cut.

Hundreds of cancer specialists walk off the job over $30k pay cut

Specialists across hospitals in south-east Queensland and Townsville walked off the job, amid fears proposed cuts will lead to an exodus of medical workers.

  • Courtney Kruk
A patient who visited Caboolture Hospital’s emergency department across two days last week has been confirmed to have measles.

Measles alert issued for inner-city and north of Brisbane

One person infected with measles caught a train to Brisbane’s airport, while another went to a hospital emergency department.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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It took 34-year-old Brisbane apprentice Hayley Campbell more than seven months to get properly diagnosed and treated for ADHD.

Qld GPs will soon be able to diagnose and treat ADHD. Is that a good thing?

For apprentice electrician Hayley Campbell, the journey to diagnosis was long and expensive. But change is coming for other Queenslanders struggling with the disorder.

  • Courtney Kruk
The waste facility at Swanbank, Ipswich, in 2018.

‘Highly offensive’ but not toxic: Report into Ipswich waste odour released

Health conditions linked to the odour include nausea, headaches, coughing and wheezing, skin irritations, sleep disturbances and stress.

  • Dominique Tassell
Premier David Crisafulli said the commonwealth had a responsibility to deliver promised hospital funding and ‘rescue’ long-stay patients stranded in beds.

States raise pressure on Canberra to cough up from health coffers

State and territory governments held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to solidify their push on the Commonwealth to cover essential health costs.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and former senior public servant Michael De’Ath.

Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ health program ban

School-leavers will descend on the Gold Coast later this week. The lack of drug-checking services for them – and the state – has driven one bureaucrat to act.

  • Matt Dennien

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