Paul Green’s family have told of their “great sadness” as they prepare to farewell him at his beloved home rugby league ground where he first made his name. 

A multibillion-dollar desalination plant could be built on the Sunshine Coast amid cracks in the Palaszczuk government over how to secure the region’s water supply and avoid a controversial debate about recycled water. 

Million-dollar transfer bonuses are being offered to Queensland medical specialists to join competing companies in an unprecedented bidding war that enraged doctors have labelled “football team poaching tactics”. 

Queenslanders have been pumping more than $8m a day into pokies to “relieve stress” as cost-of-living pressures create unseen levels of the destructive habit, a leading gambling analyst has warned. 

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