‘Adult crime, adult time’ fail after alleged stabbing by teen
A 13-year-old boy being charged with attempted murder after an alleged stabbing has exposed a major shortfall in Queensland’s rushed ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws.
Lydia Lynch
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PsiQuantum still under review
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki is refusing to reveal whether the state faces financial penalties if it decides to pull out of a $1bn deal to build the world’s first fault-tolerant quantum computer in Brisbane.
Date set for new Games plan
Brisbane’s new Olympic infrastructure authority is set to start deliberations over where the Games’ main stadium will be after thousands of businesses, residents and lobby groups made submissions to the agency.
Pay up or we’ll all strike: union boss
As the Crisafulli government prepares its first budget update, public sector unions are threatening rolling strikes across schools, hospitals and police stations if big pay rises aren’t delivered.
‘We can do better’ on Indigenous tourism
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli says Australia has failed to tell the stories of its first people “as well as we should”, as he leaves the door open to building a new Indigenous cultural centre in time for the Brisbane Olympics.
Opposition grows to drug laws repeal
Thousands of people busted with small amounts of hardcore drugs have avoided court under Labor’s relaxed possession laws that the LNP plans to repeal.
Labor banking on PM’s battleground blitz
Senior Labor figures are banking on Anthony Albanese’s pre-election blitz of Queensland to build momentum in the battleground state.
‘Revolutionary’ DNA method for troubled Queensland lab
A DNA profiling technique that will “significantly improve” rape investigations in Queensland is poised to be rolled out this year, a decade after the state’s beleaguered forensics laboratory first tried to introduce it.
Cultural centre ‘an Olympic promise’: Gooda
Indigenous leader Mick Gooda has warned Queensland Premier David Crisafulli against dumping plans for a new First Nations centre in Brisbane.
Crisafulli under pressure to build ‘world-class’ Indigenous cultural centre
Tourism and business leaders in Brisbane have joined a push for a world-class Indigenous cultural centre to be built after a refusal by the new Crisafulli government to guarantee funding.
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