WELLCAMP airport, best known for housing a politically fraught quarantine facility, will become only the third site in the world to be used by Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit to launch satellites into space.

THOUSANDS of criminals may have got away with murder, rape, sexual assault and other crimes because of an arbitrary line in the sand for forensically testing DNA in Queensland, a bombshell inquiry has found.

A CONVICTED double murderer serving a 30-year life sentence has launched a half-million-dollar damages claim against the state, alleging he was sexually abused as a student at a Brisbane primary school in the 1990s.

A WOMAN accused of murdering her ex-partner, whose body was fed through a woodchipper, allegedly told friends that he was “pathetic” and she would get everything if he died first, a court has heard.

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