A probe into the failings of Queensland’s child protection system that allowed one of Australia’s worst pedophiles to sexually abuse dozens of girls will proceed despite Ashley Paul Griffith’s appeal.
Coles will pull kitchen knives from all Australian stores after 13-year-old allegedly stabbed a staffer as she stacked shelves in Queensland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Labor figures are banking on Anthony Albanese’s pre-election blitz of Queensland to build momentum in the battleground state.
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.
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