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The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland’s ‘vague’ proposed hate speech laws

Institute of Public Affairs latest to raise free speech concerns over bill facing criticism from across the political divide

The Guardian - AU

Coffee catch-up decides top cop after shock retirement

Former Australian Federal Police deputy commissioner Brett Pointing has been hand-picked as Queensland's top cop after Steve Gollschewski's shock retirement.

AAP

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner

Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

The Guardian - AU

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Alleged cat burglar arrested after priceless Egyptian artefacts taken in Queensland museum heist

Man charged after 2,600-year-old cat sculpture, mummy mask and necklace stolen from Caboolture museum

The Guardian - AU

‘A big call for the IOC’: is the fight over Olympic rowing on Australia’s predator-inhabited Fitzroy River all a croc?

Queensland’s deputy premier says the event ‘ain’t happening’ at the Brisbane Games unless it takes place in Rockhampton

The Guardian - AU

Queensland cops a drenching with more rain to come

Isolated heavy downpours are continuing across an already soaked state, with forecasters predicting more rain to come.

AAP

'Unreal': Jorgensen double helps Waratahs to Super win

The NSW Waratahs have snapped a four-match losing streak against the Queensland Reds to open the Super Rugby Pacific season in style in Sydney.

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Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say

Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

The Guardian - AU

Weekend flooding fear as heavy rain sweeps two states

Hundreds of millimetres of rain have been dumped on two states bracing for a wet weekend and the risk of flash flooding.

AAP

As Stolen Generations survivors ‘pass away at a rapid rate’, some still await official redress

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names, images and voices of deceased people.

The Conversation

'Adds to the spice': Reds eye turncoat in Super derby

The Queensland Reds are making no secret of their intent to go after a former teammate in Friday night's Super Rugby Pacific season opener in Sydney.

AAP

Rebel Queensland LNP MP urges colleagues to ‘put on the full armour of God’ and speak against abortion

Nigel Dalton says he sought to redeem himself ‘in the eyes of God’ by crossing the floor in an attempt to overturn the LNP’s abortion debate gag order

The Guardian - AU

How fishing helped nurse NRL Cowboy back to health

North Queensland's Heilum Luki took an unorthodox approach to his recovery from a second ACL injury, buying a boat and hitting the water as much as possible.

AAP

Official probe into CFMEU links rejected by premier

A state premier has defended her government's response to CFMEU corruption, saying it cracked down on the union as soon as it became aware of misconduct claims.

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The Guardian - AU

Abortion laws, gun control and the rise (again) of One Nation: is Queensland’s LNP fraying at the seams?

David Crisafulli’s government is a triumph of pragmatism over purpose, but cracks have appeared that could have consequences beyond the state border

The Guardian - AU

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland

The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology

AAP

Top cop announces retirement to focus on health

One of Australia's most senior police officers is ready to retire after battling cancer and modernising the frontline.

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Rugby league prodigy ready to replace Alyssa Healy

Georgia Voll envisaged a life playing in the NRLW while representing Queensland state squads in her teens, but now she is replacing Alyssa Healy for Australia.

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Queensland’s new gun laws ‘ignore’ Wieambilla inquest call for mental health checks, Labor says

Police minister points to ‘issues’ with similar system in WA but shadow attorney general claims the LNP ‘buckled to the gun lobby’

The Conversation

Was the violent Sydney protest avoidable, and what can police and demonstrators learn?

The police role as a “thin blue line” between public order and chaos was tested in Sydney’s CBD on Monday night.

AAP

Key Wieambilla finding rejected in 'tough' gun reforms

A state government has come under fire for rejecting a key Wieambilla inquest finding and for reforms that "fortified the weakest gun laws in Australia".

The Conversation

Amid an Olympic boom, it’s risky timing to lift a ban on developers’ political donations

Queensland is a step closer to lifting a ban on political donations from property developers – despite a corruption watchdog’s warning that doing so in a A$7 billion Olympics building boom could raise “risks of undue or improper influence”.

AAP

Inquiry hears of 'deal' between union and government

An embattled union believed it had a sweetheart agreement with a state government, an inquiry has heard.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland government to introduce new gun control laws criticised as ‘weakest in Australia’

Under proposed changes in response to Bondi terror attack, only Australian citizens will be able to obtain a gun licence, with no cap on number of weapons

AAP

Legal challenge looms to ban on Palestinian slogans

Palestinian Australians and their supporters are preparing to challenge laws that ban a phrase widely understood to mean different things to different people.

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