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Queensland’s home-school regulator needs overhaul, review finds

A rethink of the burgeoning home-school sector has been proposed amid a tripling in the number of children taught at home.

  • Matt Dennien and Felicity Caldwell

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Education Minister Grace Grace (left), pictured with Premier and Olympics Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk (right), will need to accommodate concerns at East Brisbane State School as the Gabba is demolished.

Classroom resignations are rising. But they’re not the full story

Are more teachers leaving or being hired? It’s not the only question facing Queensland education in an election year.

  • Matt Dennien
Amanda Bartle and her children, Tiana Smith, Natalya Smith, Jaykob Smith doing home-school sport. They chose wakeboarding that term.

Qld’s home-school parents fight orders to teach Australian curriculum

The state government has been warned that increasing its rules for home-schooling could push the movement underground.

  • Felicity Caldwell
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Impaired and detained teen spent days in 24-hour confinement

A judge has taken a swipe at Queensland government agencies for their management of an intellectually disabled Indigenous boy.

  • Zach Hope
Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan, Police Commissioner Katarina Carrol, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Youth Justice Minister Di Farmer and Youth Justice director-general Bob Gee at the site of a new youth remand centre to be built at Wacol.

Qld to splash up to $250m on third children’s prison to fix capacity

The site will be built near existing detention centres to address nation-leading capacity pressures. But it’s been called a “Band-Aid solution”.

  • Matt Dennien
AWU spokesman Joseph Kaiser and protesting staff outside Brisbane’s youth prisons on Thursday.

‘Fever pitch’: Youth prison workers walk off job amid assaults, threats

Detainees at Brisbane’s youth prisons allegedly attacked staff with a makeshift knife and punched another in the face in separate incidents this week.

  • Zach Hope
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Deputy Premier Steven Miles promised the Queensland Labor fundraiser would be very transparent, with all donations and meetings disclosed.

Unclear which Labor ministers rubbed shoulders with business elite at fundraiser

A Labor election fundraiser with Queensland government ministers was promised to be transparent, but official diaries provide little clarity over the event.

  • Felicity Caldwell
In the last 12 months, the audit identified five examples where young adolescents slept overnight in police stations due to a lack of placement options.

Queensland child safety system 'struggling to cope', audit office finds

In the past year, the Queensland Audit Office identified five examples where young adolescents slept overnight in police stations because of a lack of placement options.

  • Matt Dennien
A pram is seen at a property in Cannon Hill, where the body of four-year-old Willow Dunn was found on Monday.

Investigation launched into 'horrific' cases of alleged child neglect

Child Safety Minister Di Farmer announced the investigation on Friday after the death of Willow Dunn and discovery of two teenage boys at a home in Stafford.

  • Matt Dennien
Di Farmer, Bob Atkinson, Kay McGrath and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk open the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council meeting.

Queensland to hold domestic violence summit in wake of Camp Hill tragedy

The announcement came outside the inaugural meeting of the state's re-established Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council.

  • Matt Dennien

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