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.
Indigenous leader Mick Gooda has warned Queensland Premier David Crisafulli against dumping plans for a new First Nations centre in Brisbane.
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.
Queensland’s top Labor lobbying firm has lost almost half its clients since the state election as LNP-linked lobbyists bombard the Crisafulli government for paying customers.
The parents of murdered schoolboy Daniel Morcombe have renewed a push for a national public register of child sex offenders.
John Howard knew he had to act quickly to help Indonesia after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami unleashed destruction and terror on Australia’s most important neighbour.
Queensland’s new government has vowed to continue funding doctors to fly to regional areas to help terminally ill patients end their lives amid the Albanese government’s refusal to lift a ban on telehealth appointments for VAD.
Anthony Albanese has defended Bali drug smuggler Scott Rush’s impending freedom and says his family have already ‘paid the price’ for his crimes, despite Queensland police declaring they plan to question him about theft allegations.
Queensland Attorney-General Deb Frecklington will review the state’s laws after declaring Ezra Mam’s sentence ‘did not pass the pub test’.
Floodgates have been thrown open at Brisbane’s Wivenhoe Dam in a bid to free up space after days of heavy rain, with the city bracing for another summer of flooding.
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