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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.

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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.

ABC News

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…

Newcastle Herald

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What is it like inside one of Queensland's youth detention centres?

Youth detention centres are at the heart of the state government's tactics for dealing with young offenders, but child advocates and youth crime victims say they are failing to rehabilitate juveniles.

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Former child safety officer believes she could have saved Darcey and Chloe if not for a high caseload

A former caseworker says that systemic problems within Queensland's Child Safety unit may have prevented her from saving Darcey and Chloe.

ABC News

The case for an NZ Reconstruction Authority

With a recent run of natural disasters, could a standalone reconstruction agency help NZ recovery and response efforts?

Newsroom.co.nz

UN torture body cancels visit to Australia over unrestricted access issue in ‘extraordinary step’

UN panel suspends visit to New South Wales and Queensland after access blocked to some sites

The Independent UK

New laws prep Queensland for coercive control offence

The Queensland government is preparing to introduce a standalone coercive control criminal offence as updated domestic and family violence laws pass parliament.

AAP

North Queensland councillor Jan Clifford reprimanded over comments made at civic function

A conversation at an official council event has been deemed as inappropriate conduct, but when council was asked to deal with the matter one councillor retorted: 'It shouldn't be up to us councillors … we're not qualified for this crap'.

ABC News

Path to Treaty bill introduced to Queensland parliament. What does it mean?

The long-sought-after laws pave the way for the Queensland government to sign a treaty or treaties with First Nations people.

ABC News

‘Recipe for disaster’: Queensland bail law that overrides children’s human rights won’t work, experts say

Legal groups also criticise the push to override the state’s Human Rights Act to create the offence

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US band Unwritten Law postpone shows at 11th hour

US skate punk band Unwritten Law have postponed their Australian tour a day before their Newcastle show. The Cambridge Hotel was supposed to host Unwritten Law and their fellow American support Mickey Avalon on The Hum Tour on Thursday night. "Australia, it breaks our hearts to announce that we must…

AAP

NSW bowlers dominate Qld at the Gabba

Queensland are facing the prospect of a significant first-innings deficit after NSW's bowlers impressed on day two of their Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba.

AAP

Heath bodies praise proposed Qld drug diversion changes

Queensland health organisations have welcomed the expansion of a drug diversion program as a positive step towards a health-based approach to drug use.

ABC News

Decrease in ambulance ramping in Queensland, but health system remains under pressure

The percentage of people left languishing on ambulance stretchers for more than 30 minutes before being admitted to Queensland public hospital emergency departments decreased in the December quarter.

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Media companies lose bid to name high-profile man charged with Queensland rape

Toowoomba magistrate rules media will have to adhere to Queensland laws that prevent naming him before he’s committed to stand trial

AAP

First Nations treaty bill tabled in Qld parliament

A Queensland government bill that sets out a proposed map to a treaty, including a new truth and healing inquiry, has been introduced to parliament.

AAP

Qld bail crackdown limiting child rights condemned

Queensland's decision to override the human rights of children, particularly Indigenous kids, to make breaching bail a crime has been criticised.

ABC News

Dad of Logan toddlers Darcey and Chloe-Ann Conley killed in hot car questions downgraded charges

Kerri-Ann Conley became the first person in Queensland to be charged with murder under an expanded definition. Then her charges were downgraded.

ABC News

Queensland is to relax its drug laws, even for ice and heroin. How could it affect you?

The state government wants to expand its diversion program to personal quantities of anything from cocaine to meth.

ABC News

Townsville Maternal Fetal Medicine delays could be putting mothers, babies at risk: leaked report

Chronic patient backlogs are causing "risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes" at a major maternity unit that's the only public facility able to treat high-risk pregnancies in regional Queensland.

The Conversation

Flooded Home Buyback scheme helps wash away the pain for Queenslanders

It’s almost a year since floods devastated parts of Ipswich in Southeast Queensland.

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