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Footage posted to community alert page Brisbane Incident Alerts on June 21 shows a bus driver being assaulted by a passenger, allegedly for refusing to pay a 50-cent fare.

‘Quite traumatised’: Brisbane bus driver may have permanent ear damage after attack

The lord mayor and union officials are calling for repeat offenders to be banned from public transport.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Footage posted to community alert page Brisbane Incident Alerts on June 21 shows a bus driver being assaulted by a passenger, allegedly for refusing to pay a 50-cent fare.

‘Deeply disturbing’: Bus driver bashed in South Brisbane

Police have launched an investigation into the incident, in which a driver was repeatedly punched after trying to remove a passenger from a bus.

  • Courtney Kruk
Iuliana Triscaru with her brother Beniamin Farcas in a photograph shown on her sister-in-law Lara's phone.

Trio guilty again over ‘torturous’ toolbox murders

The victims had been beaten, stabbed and choked before they were stuffed into the two metre-long container.

  • Rex Martinich and Laine Clark
“We believe in fairness and equality before the law – especially when people face tough challenges.”

Rapist appeals life sentence for ‘incredible cruelty’

A man who raped and tortured a woman for weeks has appealed against his life sentences, claiming he was not credited for his efforts to stop her from dying.

  • Rex Martinich
The victims - Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru.

Toolbox murder was a punishment gone wrong, court told

One of three men accused of murdering two drug dealers by drowning them in a toolbox never intended to kill, a jury has heard.

  • Rex Martinich
Pheobe Bishop, 17, with her mother, Kylie Johnson.

Human remains formally identified as teenager Pheobe Bishop

Police say officers are still searching for multiple items of interest in relation to the 17-year-old, who was last seen alive in Bundaberg.

  • William Davis
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A trial is under way for three men accused of killing two people and dumping their bodies inside a locked toolbox near Logan.

Toolbox murder accused blame ‘star witness’, each other

Two men accused of murdering two people by drowning them in a toolbox have blamed each other, an acquaintance or a witness for the killings at their trial’s end.

  • Rex Martinich
The 27-year-old man being led to a police car after he was arrested at his home in Forest Lake.

Brisbane man remains behind bars charged with torture of newborn baby

The baby was taken to the Queensland Children’s Hospital in an unresponsive state, before police were called.

  • William Davis and Savannah Meacham
In July 2022, the AFP seized the money from a West End property.

Nurse who hid $1.7m drug money under bed spared jail

An assistant nurse caught with almost $2 million in drug money under her bed has been spared jail.

  • Rex Martinich
Brisbane City Council operates over 4,300 permanent, temporary and mobile cameras.

These measures promise improved public safety, but at what cost?

Increased surveillance across Brisbane and expanded police powers are said to keep us safer and reduce violent crimes. Evidence suggests this is not always the case.

  • Courtney Kruk

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