Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says a “nationally consistent” approach is needed for her to ban mobile phones in schools – despite Queensland already being the only state not to do so.

Gold Coast City Council had received several complaints about dogs at a property where a young girl was savagely mauled on Wednesday.

Students who are “actively” gay or having unmarried straight sex should not be school captains, a church which runs some of Queensland’s most prestigious colleges has told a discrimination review.

And controversial “wolf trader” Tyson Robert Scholz has been banned from carrying on financial services business in Australia and blocked from running paid online trading advice groups.

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