The man behind the proposed Collinsville coal-fired power station has lashed out at the Morrison Government for “gaslighting North Queensland” in a scathing statement. 

The “victim’’ of a violent assault outside a Gold Coast gym, that resulted in five alleged Mongols bikies or associates being charged, has signed a statutory declaration saying it was a “consensual fight”. 

Uncle Barry Watson was in the best possible hands when he suffered two consecutive heart attacks while at a graduation ceremony late last year. 

Mandatory check-ins have officially been scrapped in the Sunshine State, just in time for the Easter long weekend.

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