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Brendan O’Malley has been a journalist with The Courier-Mail and Quest Newspapers for 30 years, covering Council, state politics, the environment, science and the far north Qld bureau. He currently covers courts and local issues in Brisbane’s inner-west, southwest, inner south and inner north suburbs.

Brendan O'Malley

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QLD’s most stunning formal photos of 2020

This year has been one most don’t want to remember, but our Year 12s have been determined not to allow coronavirus to stop them celebrating their much-anticipated school formals. SEE HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS

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Radical new primary school coming to Brisbane

An innovative new independent primary school, where children learn in multi-age classes, is coming to the city’s inner-west.

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REVEALED: Inside the brothels in your neighbourhood

Sex workers and legal brothel owners take us behind the scenes of what their business is really like in Queensland and the challenges they face from the law and the illegal operators busted this year. SEE WHERE EVERY LEGAL BROTHEL IS IN QLD

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IN THEIR WORDS: School’s out for the graduating class of 2020

Today thousands of graduating year 12 students will celebrate the end to their high school education. In celebration here is a snapshot from 11 schools across the southeast on how they coped with homeschooling, a pandemic, social distancing and an unpredictable future.

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Artist's impression of how the Coles Bardon store would look from the street.

Mini-Coles plan for upmarket suburb hits hurdle

An innovative Coles supermarket planned for a ritzy westside suburb has hit a speed bump. And it’s all because of a bus stop.

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a 15-year-old girl missing from Wilsonton.

MISSING CHILD: Police appeal for help to find lost Toowoomba girl

A 15-year-old girl has gone missing from her Wilsonton home. She was last seen on McCafferty St yesterday.

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A 75-year-old alleged child sex offender is set to be released from custody to return to his home in Kingaroy at the end of the week. (iStock photo: child abuse, child sex offender)

More jail for 75yo who breached sex offender order

A 75-year-old man sentenced over a 1990s paedophile ring has been slapped with more jail time after yet another breach of his court orders.

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Bullen (left, in suit jacket) leaves Holland Park Magistrates Court with his brother who was there to support him.

Wannabe air force pilot clocked at 148km/h while drunk

A teen soccer star and wannabe air force top gun has been given a blistering dressing down by a magistrate after being caught driving at 148km/h.

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Artist's impression of how the Coles store would look from the street.

New Brisbane Coles a Qld first

Brisbane’s inner-west will get Queensland’s first new-look Coles, following approval from council and the State Government.

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The redbellied black snake found in the lawnmower.

Massive red-bellied black found in lawnmower

A red-bellied black snake has had a lucky escape after crawling into a lawnmower. And so has the mower’s owner. SEE THE PHOTOS

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