A WOMAN has been charged with murder after an eight-year-old boy was found dead inside a Rockhampton home during a police welfare check.

QUEENSLAND taxpayers are funding astounding pay packages worth $1m a year to fly in locum doctors as the government scrambles to prop up a health system crumbling under a chronic doctor shortage.

POWERFUL mayors of Queensland’s two largest regions were refused a seat on Brisbane’s Olympic Games organising committee despite a previous promise they would be involved in planning the once-in-a-generation event.

EXPLOSIVE new court documents allege the boss of RSPCA Queensland hired a friend for a plum position with the animal welfare icon and had an “intimate relationship” with her.

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