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Nine Queensland identified the victim of a shark attack off the central coast as 40-year-old Luke Walford.

Man dies after shark attack off Queensland coast

The 40-year-old youth pastor and school chaplain was fishing with family on an island off Rockhampton when he was bitten on Saturday afternoon. 

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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“We’ve put all of it into this one initiative,” Premier Steven Miles said of the rebates in relation to much-touted help coming in the state budget.

‘Simpler ways’: Labor’s public power retailer pitch sparks debate

Queensland Labor has pledged to set up a new retailer to help drive down bills across the state if re-elected later this month, but not everyone is sold.

  • Matt Dennien and Cameron Atfield

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Man vs croc: wrestling a conservation dilemma | The Jewish orphan turned Nazi mascot | Rebecca F. Kuang and the story behind her bestselling novel Yellowface

‘Maybe we could put 100 crocs in a city park’: A conservation issue gets snappy

Booming saltwater crocodile numbers have led to calls to separate the predators from people – and new dilemmas.

  • Frank Robson
The man was found on Yeppoon Road in Rockhampton.

Investigation as man dies after suspected shooting

A man’s body has been found with a gunshot wound to the neck on a busy central Queensland road.

  • Laine Clark
Matthew Cox and Tayla Cox

Murder-accused behind bars after deaths of wife, baby in Rockhampton

A man has been remanded in custody over the deaths of a mother and baby whose bodies were found in a central Queensland home.

  • Cheryl Goodenough and John Crouch
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Dozens of people converged on Rockhampton properties on Sunday, home to people they believed to have been responsible for recent crimes.

Police lay charges as Facebook pulls plug on vigilante group

Queensland’s crime debate has escalated to online-organised vigilantism in one town amid calls for calm. Two people have now been charged.

  • Matt Dennien
The home of a woman killed earlier this month has been broken into.

‘Another kick in the guts’: Thieves target slain Qld grandmother’s home

The family of a slain Queensland grandmother has been dealt another savage blow after thieves stole heirlooms and jewellery from her Rockhampton home.

  • Robyn Wuth
A crime scene has been established at a home in Rockhampton where an eight-year-old boy has been allegedly murdered.

Queensland woman charged with murdering eight-year-old boy

Police carrying out a welfare check allegedly found the boy’s unresponsive body at a Rockhampton home. A 36-year-old known to the boy has been charged with his murder.

  • Tony Moore
Nevaeh Austin, the three-year-old girl found unresponsive on a daycare bus near Rockhampton remains in a critical condition on Thursday.

Girl forgotten on bus for six hours was only child aboard that day

The three-year-old girl “forgotten” by staff and left in a minibus at a Queensland childcare centre remains in hospital.

  • Jocelyn Garcia

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