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Queensland Attorney-General Deb Frecklington.

Sparks fly over youth crime laws as Queensland parliament returns

Schoolchildren in the public gallery giggled as the fireworks flew, with Steven Miles accused of being “on the booze” instead of meeting flood victims.

  • William Davis

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Shadow treasurer Shannon Fentiman speaks from parliament house on Wednesday.

‘Temu politician’: Debate over the state of the budget heats up

Amid a flurry of opposition attacks, acting treasurer Deb Frecklington insists the LNP government can fix “Labor’s mess” without breaking promises.

  • William Davis
Michale Chandler, 29, Kelsie Davies, 17, and Sheree Robertson, 52, were killed in a crash at Maryborough. (Supplied)

‘Nailed it’: Crisafulli backs bid to appeal against two sentences

Premier David Crisafulli said the sentences would have been harsher under the LNP, but “we owe it to those families, and to every Queenslander, to put up a fight”.

  • Savannah Meacham
Wayne Goss: Like Whitlam, he will be remembered for profoundly changing a political landscape.

Goss government’s ‘fractious’ relationship with anti-corruption body revealed

Queensland’s second-term premier, Wayne Goss, didn’t know what was coming. And he wasn’t alone.

  • Cameron Atfield
Labor’s shadow attorney-general Meaghan Scanlon.

LNP blocks Labor move for more scrutiny of youth crime laws

Parliamentary debate has begun over the government’s controversial proposed laws, with Labor trying – and failing – to have key parts delayed until early 2025.

  • Matt Dennien
Attorney-General Deb Frecklington (left) has conceded the LNP’s new youth crime laws are ‘incompatible’ with human rights, but Premier David Crisafulli (right) is standing by the legislation.

Crisafulli uses new data to defend youth crime laws ‘incompatible’ with human rights

Premier David Crisafulli has defended his government’s new youth crime laws after his own attorney-general conceded they would be a violation of human rights.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Too young for TikTok, old enough for jail: How a meaner Australia treats its kids

Two worrying but contradictory laws affecting children passed last week in Queensland and Canberra. Both arose despite a lack of evidence to support them.

  • Sean Kelly
16 of the 19 members of David Crisafulli’s former Queensland LNP opposition shadow cabinet.

Who’s (maybe) who in the new Crisafulli LNP cabinet

While Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and his deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, have been sworn in, remaining LNP ministers will have to wait.

  • Cameron Atfield and Matt Dennien
CS Energy’s Callide power station near Biloela has not been running at full capacity since 2021.

Draft report finds broader failures behind Qld coal plant explosion

The state will now appoint special advisors to the government-owned operator of the Callide power station, CS Energy, amid a review of all its power generators.

  • Matt Dennien
The state-owned Tarong Power Station, near Kingaroy, has been suggested as the proposed nuclear power station site.

Dutton pitches two Queensland nuclear power sites – and power to take them

Two of the Coalition’s seven proposed nuclear power plant sites would be in leader Peter Dutton’s home state – one just 150 kilometres from Brisbane.

  • Matt Dennien

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