Election day live: KAP calls in lawyers over election sign
Katter’s Australian Party is threatening legal action over an ‘LNP’ sign, while police visit a booth on Brisbane’s bayside over one man’s bizarre appearance.
Welcome to our rolling coverage of Queensland election day 2024 as voters head to the polls and the party leaders make last-minute pitches in what has been a marathon campaign.
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Watch: ‘I had a stroke in regional Qld – this new tech saved my life’
A Qld woman says she is alive because a new system, where strokes are diagnosed and “clot-busting” drugs given within minutes, is being piloted at her regional hospital. It comes ahead of a statewide rollout.
Tiny baby’s death: Questions new Child Safety Minister won’t answer
Queensland’s new Child Safety Minister will not commit to a review and has dodged questions about the shocking death of a two-month-old girl, born to an at-risk teen and at the home of long-term foster carers when ambulances were called.