Brisbane’s Lord Mayor has been left as the highest-ranking Liberal leader in mainland Australia after Labor’s NSW election win. A destructive and aggressive ant species known to kill people and livestock has spread to tourism hotspot Minjerribah. The federal government will introduce the Voice referendum bill into parliament later this week. Police say they shot and killed a man after he came at them with a knife, but his family have demanded to see body camera footage of the moments leading up to his death near Cairns.
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