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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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whiskey inquestNation

BRISBANE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 18, 2021: Detective Sergeant Virginia Gray leaves the Brisbane CoronerÃs Court after giving evidence at the inquest into the 1973 firebombing of the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub. NCA NewsWire / Sarah Marshall

Police secrecy bid over Whiskey claims

Queensland Police are pushing to suppress startling evidence delivered in an inquiry into the Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing in 1973.

Charlie Peel

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk during Parliament. Pics Tara Croser.

Bid to beat border restrictions

Holiday-makers from Sydney have made a dash for the Queensland border as tighter restrictions come into effect on Saturday morning.

Lydia Lynch

Border fiascoNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 13, 2021: People are seen walking towards the Uber pick up point at Sydney Airport in Mascot after Melbourne entered a fresh lockdown at midnight. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jenny Evans

Family thrown under a bus by ‘hotspot rule’

A regional Victorian family denied entry to Qld and forced into quarantine after a bizarre ruling by airport authorities.

Angelica Snowden and Lydia Lynch

NSW outbreakNation

17/06/2021 : Hudson Mills jetski instructor from Noosa Jetski Hire , with honeymooner Charlotte Barry from Newcastle, NSW, on the Noosa river at Noosaville, on the Sunshine Coast. Pic Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Premier defiant as tourism braces for cancellations

Gladys Berejiklian resists new restrictions in NSW as her state counterparts tighten the net ahead of the school holidays.

Lydia Lynch

Investigation criticisedNation

Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub firebombing feb 1988 file pic:James Finch mug shot

Ex-cop tells of Whiskey ‘forced confession’

A former police officer says detectives orchestrated an interview that extracted a supposed admission from a man convicted of the 1973 Whiskey Au Go Go firebombing.

Charlie Peel

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