Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Union demands job security for workers at BHP's Daunia, Blackwater coal mines following sale annoucement

A mining union is calling for BHP to guarantee the jobs and entitlements of workers at its Daunia and Blackwater coal mines in central Queensland, which the company intends to sell in the next 18 months.

ABC News

Homicide probe begins after Queensland man stabbed

Queensland police have launched a homicide investigation after a 20-year-old man died following a stabbing during a brawl south of Brisbane.

AAP

Great Barrier Reef's Pumpkin Island, once won in a poker game and used in beer commercials, on the market

This little-known island resort "like a secret kept between the families" is just one of several Great Barrier Reef islands for sale with a colourful history.

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Southern Queensland tourist area known for its beauty in need of reputation overhaul after violent crimes

After a domestic terrorist attack, sieges, stabbings and shootings, Southern Queensland is looking to clean up its recent reputation as a crime hotspot.

ABC News

Queensland's Environment Department still behind on saving threatened species, auditor-general finds

More than four years after the Queensland's Environment Department was found to have no plan to protect threatened species, the agency is still lagging behind, according to the state's auditor-general.

ABC News

Friday essay: 'killed by Natives'. The stories – and violent reprisals – behind some of Australia's settler memorials

First Nations people please be advised this article contains distressing imagery of a retaliatory shooting.

The Conversation

Water buybacks are back on the table in the Murray-Darling Basin. Here's a refresher on how they work

The federal government has announced a new round of strategic water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin. The government intends to purchase water entitlements from voluntary sellers in parts of New South Wales and Queensland.

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Queensland to recruit hundreds of foreign police

Up to 500 foreign nationals a year could be taken on by Queensland Police under an agreement between the state and federal governments.

AAP

‘Life and death situation’: Queensland police minister’s claims on youth justice rebuked by experts

Mark Ryan criticised for saying government’s move to override Human Rights Act is for ‘the greater good’

The Guardian - AU

Man frees himself from jaws of crocodile in attack at Queensland river

Large crocodile bit the man’s leg and dragged his dog into the Bloomfield River at Ayton, 50km south of Cooktown, government says

The Guardian - AU

Queensland lawyer Salvatore 'Sam' Di Carlo denies 'corrupt relationship' with former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale

Lawyer Salvatore "Sam" Di Carlo denies having a "corrupt relationship" with former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale, which included paying for dinners and sex workers, a court is told.

ABC News

Extradition of Cordingley murder accused 'imminent'

Queensland authorities say the extradition of a man in India accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley four years ago in Queensland is close.

AAP

Qld police shootings 'touched soul of the nation'

Queensland parliament has heard tearful and heartfelt tributes for two police officers and a neighbour gunned down during a domestic terror attack in December.

AAP

Queensland Police offer $500,000 reward to help solve Christine Fenner suspected murder cold case

Christine Fenner disappeared in February 1999 with Queensland Police now offering a $500,000 reward to anyone with information that can help convict her suspected killer.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Less than 30 per cent of Queensland now drought-declared with rainfall a 'welcome relief'

Dry and dusty paddocks have been transformed, as Queensland recovers from the "worst drought in living memory".

AAP

Queensland backs criminal age rise, youth crackdown

National support for a proposal to raise the criminal age from 10 to 12 is still supported by Queensland as the state rushes through tough new youth crime laws.

ABC News

Queensland hoping to attract 500 foreign police officers a year to boost recruitment

The Queensland Police Service has approval for 500 international recruits to join the service each year for five years.

AAP

Blues for NSW batters as Qld chase victory

NSW's top-order batters failed to fire, leaving Queensland requiring 198 further runs for victory with nine wickets in hand after day 3 at the Gabba.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The New Daily

Watch: Plane crash deaths confirmed, Coercive control law, Qantas record profit

Watch: "Hannah's law", a law against coercive control, is one step closer to being passed in Queensland three years after the murder of Hannah Clarke and

AAP

Queensland lays groundwork to outlaw coercive control

Queensland has changed the definition of domestic violence to include patterns of behaviour over time ahead of plans to criminalise coercive control.

ABC News

Domestic violence law reforms pass Queensland parliament, but consultation on criminalisation of coercive control continues

The changes will expand the definition of domestic and family abuse to include a "pattern of behaviour" and will strengthen the offence of stalking.

Newcastle Herald

Mick Blood crawling back with the Lime Spiders

WHEN Lime Spiders' frontman Mick Blood steps onto the Wickham Park Hotel stage on Friday night it'll mark an emotional return to Newcastle. The last time he visited the city he almost died. It was 2014 and Blood had just resettled in the harbourside suburb of Stockton, following the breakdown…

AAP

Police offer $500,000 reward for missing Qld mother

Queensland Police will offer a $500,000 reward for information about the disappearance of Christine Maria Fenner in February 1999.

ABC News

Townsville mayor calls for triple j to withdraw Groovin the Moo music festival partnership

The annual multi-location festival Groovin the Moo has ditched its north Queensland leg in favour of the Sunshine Coast, leaving residents feeling snubbed.

ABC News

Mount Isa celebrates 100 years of mining history and outback life in north-west Queensland

One of Australia's longest-running mining towns is turning 100. Here's how it grew to be among the largest of its outback cities.

1 … 196 197 198 199

People

Edward

610 stories

Annastacia Palaszczuk

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Queensland Police Service

Environment Department

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.