Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has ordered a review of cases where male officers escaped punishment for predatory behaviour against female colleagues and has pledged to restore the confidence of people coming forward to make complaints.

Mental-health beds for new mums and acute-response teams to support suicidal children will be rolled out in Queensland as part of the government’s response to distressing revelations in the state’s system.

E-SCOOTER users busted speeding more than 30km/h over the limit will be slapped with a $575 fine under the Palaszczuk government’s safety crackdown on reckless riders.

Black widow Lindy Yvonne Williams spent days hacking apart the remains of her dead lover with a Bunnings electric saw before dumping his body parts at random in wheelie bins across Gympie and the Sunshine Coast.

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