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A 13-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Coles worker at Yamanto Central shopping centre.

Boy, 13, charged with attempted murder over supermarket stabbing

The boy acted alone when he allegedly stabbed a female Coles worker in an “abhorrent” random attack, police say.

  • Cloe Read

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Peter Dutton says one of the core strengths of a Coalition government would be law and order.

‘Rampant’: Dutton slams Labor’s record on crime, vows to get tough

A day after a Coles worker was stabbed in Ipswich, Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has visited that city to promote the LNP’s law and order policies.

  • Felicity Caldwell
The sweeping pandemic powers of Queensland Chief Health Officer John Gerrard are wound back on Monday afternoon.

‘Needs to be resolved’: Health inquiry into Ipswich waste concerns

The Crisafulli government has called on former chief health officer John Gerrard to head an inquiry into the effect of odours from waste facilities.

  • Savannah Meacham

Garbage pay stink splits south-east council on third day of strikes

Some councillors have joined garbage truck drivers striking over stalled talks with their administration as 60,000 bins go uncollected – some for a second week.

  • Matt Dennien
Unions representing garbage truck drivers and other field workers marched through the Ipswich CBD while on strike over stalled pay deal negotiations with the council on Friday.

Garbage driver deal delivers empty bins and pay rises for Christmas

A major south-east council and its garbage truck drivers inked a pay deal after strikes left tens of thousands of bins uncollected – some for two weeks straight.

  • Matt Dennien
Improved train services were the first priority for Ipswich City Council in their 2024 state and federal budget submissions.

The outer Brisbane growth areas being left behind on public transport

A report on liveability across five Australian capital cities has highlighted gaps between established and growing areas. In Brisbane, one issue stands out.

  • Matt Dennien
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Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding at the hanging of Mark Rothko’s 1957 #20, at Ipswich Art Gallery.

Ipswich Art Gallery to showcase $116m Rothko painting from National Collection

The painting is on loan for two years from the National Gallery of Australia as part of a program designed to bring visitors to regional galleries.

  • Nick Dent
Woogaroo Forest at Springfield, with the Brisbane CBD on the horizon.

Homes v habitat: The fight to save a forest amid a population boom

Campaigners want to save south-east Queensland’s Woogaroo forest for koalas; developers want the land for desperately needed housing. Something has to give.

  • Courtney Kruk
Firefighters work in the ashes of the Oakdale Guest House, a Queenslander-style residential boarding house at 5 Milford Street, Ipswich, Queensland, which was destroyed because of an intense fire that broke out at 3am on Saturday, December 29, 1990.

$500,000 reward offered over cold case blaze

Twenty-eight people were living in an Ipswich boarding house when it burnt down in a suspected 1990 arson attack.

  • William Davis
Police said several people sent them information about Robert Crawford after their appeal.

Murder accused allegedly moved wife’s body near mower

A man accused of murdering his wife moved her body before she was found dead near a ride-on lawnmower, police allege.

  • Rex Martinich

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