The architect of Queensland’s integrity laws has backed an independent review into the state government’s checks and balances, warning it was crucial to maintain public trust. 

Police say a couple found dead inside their Ipswich home after it was engulfed with flames died from an act of violence before the fire took hold… 

Queensland health authorities were braced for a “worst case scenario” of thousands of Covid-infected people in hospital and hundreds in intensive care by the end of the month 

HI-Tech drones will be deployed to save the koalas as part of a $50 million program to track, treat and grow more trees for the threatened marsupial. 

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