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David Crisafulli has pledged to scrap compulsory preferential voting in Queensland.

Compulsory preferential voting to be scrapped if LNP takes power

The minority Palaszczuk government reintroduced compulsory preferential voting in 2016. David Crisafulli has vowed to once again make it optional.

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Toutai Kefu with his wife Rachel at their Brisbane home in 2021.

‘More disappointed than angry’: Kefu reacts to home invaders’ sentence

Australian rugby great Toutai Kefu has spoken of his frustrations over crime as Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath reviews the sentences given to his attackers.

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Render of The Star Brisbane, which will anchor the Queens Wharf entertainment complex.

Billion-dollar casino backer takes legal action to kill story

A wealthy family company based in Hong Kong was cleared to operate a casino in Australia. But it does not want media coverage of a report into its suitability.

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“I’m leaving in my way, at my time, in a way that leaves behind a legacy I’m proud of, and still work to be done,” D’Ath told journalists at a Thursday media conference.

D’Ath’s decade done: Qld Attorney-General retiring at October election

Yvette D’Ath is the fourth Labor MP to quit or announce her intention to ahead of the vote – a make-or-break one for the third-term team under a new leader.

  • Matt Dennien
Queen’s Wharf, under construction on the banks of the Brisbane River.

Star gets casino licence suspension reprieve, a week out from deadline

The Star Entertainment Group has been given another six months to demonstrate it is fit to operate its casinos in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

  • Cameron Atfield
Lawyer Rowan King (left) outside Toowoomba Magistrates Court at an earlier hearing for the matter.

Thousands of pages of phone data stall case of high-profile rape accused

New Queensland laws that would allow media to identify people accused of serious sex offences come into effect next month. This case might not be so straightforward.

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Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath says blue card checks undertaken on a man accused of abusing 91 children did not return any criminal history.

No red flags raised when alleged childcare abuser applied to work with kids

Qld’s attorney-general says all “appropriate steps were taken” before the man was granted a working-with-children card.

  • Fraser Barton
The move follows a handful of other recent department head changes put in motion by Palaszczuk’s May ministerial reshuffle.

Under-pressure health system set for second major leadership shake-up

Queensland’s sprawling health department will get a new leader just a month after a set of fresh ministerial eyes, amid warnings about disruptive government changes.

  • Matt Dennien
The proportion of households in financial distress has risen to 41.28 per cent a month after JobKeeper ended.

Health bosses sound out real estate agents to help house doctors

The unorthodox effort to find housing for doctors was revealed after Queensland’s health minister outlined a 10-year vision to shift the focus “from illness to wellness”.

  • Matt Dennien
The rate of attrition in health care jobs was higher when the LNP was in power when 4400 health jobs were sacked than during a 1:100 year global COVID-19 pandemic.

Labor slams LNP health record as election talk heats up

The Labor government reveals 4400 health workers lost their jobs when the LNP was last in power - more than during the COVID-19 pandemic - as it releases land for an Indigenous aged care centre.

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