PROPERTY managers are being told to pull rentals off the market once leases run out so they can sell up and avoid Queensland’s controversial land tax according to those within the industry.

POLICE have set up a taskforce to investigate potentially thousands of unsolved crimes that had DNA samples that were not tested due to changes in lab testing thresholds.

THE barrister for an elderly man who ran over and killed his beloved partner in a tragic accident said no sentence a court imposed could be worse than the punishment the “horrifically remorseful” man inflicted upon himself.

A CONTROVERSIAL piece of police kit has been banned, in a decision that the union says will force officers to use “open and closed-hand tactics” to deal with violent offenders.

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