Lydia Lynch

Lydia LynchQueensland Political Reporter

Lydia Lynch covers state and federal politics for The Australian in Queensland. She previously covered politics at Brisbane Times and has worked as a reporter at the North West Star in Mount Isa. She began her career at the Katherine Times in the Northern Territory.

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FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

8/10/2023: Former Senator Amanda Stoker on the foreshore near her home after she secured preselection for the safe LNP state seat of Oodgeroo, Wellington Point, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Amanda Stoker left out of a Crisafulli cabinet?

David Crisafulli insists there’ll be no frontbench reshuffle if he wins the October election. Where does that leave Amanda Stoker?

ExplainerPolitics

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos August 29, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese speaking to a resident at Eldercare Seaford with the Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells to promote the Maggie Beer Foundation Aged Care Cook and Chef Support Program. Picture: NCA NewsWire

How will the PM’s aged care changes impact you? All your questions answered

After six months of negotiations, Labor’s long-awaited $5.6bn aged-care reforms, backed by the Coalition, will allow more Australians to stay in their own homes for longer | WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

SYSTEM FAILURESNation

Ashley Paul Griffith is facing more than 1600 charges.

LNP plans to probe childcare pedophile

A probe will be launched into Queensland’s child protection failings that allowed Australia’s worst pedophile to sexually abuse dozens of girls in daycare centres, if the LNP wins October’s state election.

QueenslandPolitics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 10, 2024: Queensland Premier Steven Miles during parliament in Brisbane. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Police ‘OK to review how they handled’ pedophile

The Miles government is insisting Queensland police can review their own contentious handling of prior complaints against Australia’s worst pedophile, Ashley Paul Griffith.

’debacle’Nation

10-09-2024 - Dr Kirsty Wright speaking at a press conference in Brisbane with opposition leader David Crisafulli. Wright will be appointed to oversee the restructure of the troubled laboratory if the Liberal National Party wins next month’s state election. Picture: Lydia Lynch

DNA expert would oversee lab reforms under LNP rule

Dr Kirsty Wright, a decorated forensic biologist who discovered horrifying problems in Queensland’s government-run DNA lab, was snubbed by Labor.

EXCLUSIVENation

Visit to The Victoria Police Forensic Services Centre (VPFSC) at Macleod, Drugs being analysed by the forensic scientists. Sarah Matray

DNA lab rape-kit backlog twenty times Victoria’s

New data obtained by The Australian reveals there are 51 sexual assault victims in Victoria awaiting results from their forensic medical examinations compared with 1058 in Queensland.

GamingCompanies

Star Casino Queen's Wharf Thursday September 5, 2024. Picture, John Gass

Auditor raised red flags over Star future

Star Entertainment’s auditor raised several red flags last year about the ability of the company’s debt-laden Queensland operation to continue as a going concern.

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 28, 2024: A general view of the new Queens Wharf in Brisbane. Picture: Tertius Pickard

Labor takes brakes off to keep Star in orbit

Cash-strapped Star Entertainment was awarded a Queensland government casino licence the day before the landmark $3.6bn Queens Wharf project opened, despite begging Premier Steven Miles for a financial bailout weeks earlier.

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

Steven Miles will benefit from a union-funded warchest at the October 26 state election.

Unions’ $15m war chest dwarfs LNP backers

How are new donation laws handing Labor a multimillion-dollar advantage at the upcoming Queensland election campaign?

FORENSIC FIASCOPolitics

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - SEPTEMBER 05, 2024: Premier Steven Miles arrives at the opening of a new dedicated mental health space at The Prince Charles Hospital.Picture: NewsWire / Glenn Campbell

No DNA backlog briefing for Miles

Queensland Premier Steven Miles has not sought a briefing from bosses at the state government-run DNA lab this week despite disturbing revelations that more than 400 sexual assault victims were waiting longer than a year for forensic results.

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