Emergency services have responded to multiple incidents across Toowoomba including a ute that caught fire while towing a horse float a car that collided with a tree during a hailstorm and a crash between a car and a motorbike.
While largely symbolic, staff of the University of Southern Queensland passed a motion of no confidence targeting the Vice Chancellor and her executive team in a 25 year first.
Police arrived to find a Ford Focus bearing false plates had rolled after crashing into another vehicle. The driver was nowhere to be seen.
The union representing academic and support staff is calling for the university to come clean on job cuts, with an organiser alleging one department may be slashed by as much as 40 per cent.
The increasingly desperate family of Jack McLennan continues to search for the 27-year-old, as police say there is ‘nothing suspicious’ despite the addition of the CIB and homicide unit to the investigation.
New research has found 87 per cent of Queensland Police are suffering extreme burnout, with the bulk of that pain resulting from the weight of domestic violence investigations and the red tape that has bound our officers’ hands.
Queensland’s union boss is concerned there might not be a police force in 10 years, if the next government fails to make crucial steps to fix frontline officers’ overwhelming domestic violence workload.
Police officers across the state want senior ranking officials to make sweeping changes, including to police pursuit rules, GPS trackers for criminals and support to tackle the cowardly attacks in our homes. SPECIAL REPORT
Police are searching for thieves who stole and torched a Toyota Corolla after it was dumped in Harlaxton.
Boys from St Mary’s Catholic College and Toowoomba Grammar School are coming together to stamp out the toxic culture that fuels domestic violence.
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