An inquest has heard that Hannah Clarke desperately fought to save her young children from their fiery deaths at the hands of Rowan Baxter after he doused them in petrol, tearing his shirt in a struggle for the lighter that he used to kill them. 

A Gold Coast man accused by Police of bashing his elderly landlady to death was not the violent type and ‘must have been tipped over the edge if he did do it’, according to his friend and former housemate 

A Brick house near Sunnybank Plaza has sold for $17.25m to become Brisbane’s biggest residential sale of the year, easily eclipsing the sale of an Ascot mansion. 

A Queensland councillor was forced to defend herself against a now dismissed misconduct charge for lending the keys to a local town hall to a church group. 

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