Police will use drones to monitor cars on beaches and will target people speeding through roadworks as the state moves towards the most deadly annual road toll in a decade. 

A good Samaritan neighbour who died during a deadly ambush in the Western Downs region last week, was remembered as the happiest man in the world who lit up the room.  

The state’s top doctor has declared that Queensland’s latest Covid wave has peaked as the number of patients being treated in hospital starts to fall. 

Queenslanders have been denied access to more than 665,000 pages of government documents requested under information laws in the past year, while forking out more than $624,000 in fees. 

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