No-warrant police searches to cut down knife crime
Queensland parliament is set to give the state’s police unprecedented powers to search its citizens in all public places in the name of reducing knife crime.
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Gender spat at Labor headquarters
A triumphant Queensland Labor – fresh from the party’s barnstorming May 3 victory – needs to find a new state secretary to replace outgoing Kate Flanders. So what’s the problem? The preferred candidate is a bloke.
One Nation’s Roberts beats Rennick for Queensland Senate spot
Queensland’s Senate line-up has been decided, and One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts has pipped Liberal National Party defector Gerard Rennick.
‘Gross violation’: NDIS bans Cocoon parent company
Rogue disability provider Cocoon engaged in misconduct, including falsely claiming it provided services to dead or incarcerated NDIS participants, federal authorities have concluded.
Ousted Libs count cost of campaign clangers
As Sussan Ley works to patch up a splintered Coalition, the Liberal Party has finally laid bare the mistakes that led Peter Dutton to lose his own seat and more than a dozen others.
Swings and misses: party’s polling debacle
In the Liberals’ war room in Brisbane, the catastrophic reality dawned early in the May 3 count. Recriminations began over internal polling. Funding could have been better directed. Defeated MP Luke Howarth shares his ‘what went wrong’.
Indigenous board split over finance stoush
The idyllic island of North Stradbroke is gripped by a bitter stoush pitting Indigenous leaders against each other over allegations of unpaid superannuation, a lack of transparency and serious financial risks relating to $9m in taxpayer-funds grants.
‘Terrible consequences’ if two parties do not reunite: Howard
Liberal and National Party elders – including former PM John Howard – are urging David Littleproud and Sussan Ley to rebuild the Coalition or face ‘terrible consequences’.
Federal split sparks Queensland Liberal National Party demerger debate
A Queensland Nationals MP has raised the spectre of the state’s Liberal National Party de-merging in the wake of the Coalition split, as LNP leaders insist it is business as usual.
The kids are not all right: Crisafulli
Fixing Queensland’s failed child safety system is as much about protecting the community as it is about protecting vulnerable wards of the state, the Premier says.
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