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Calls to repeal gag laws for those under guardianship and trustees

Across most of Australia it's a criminal offence to identify someone under the Public Guardian or Trustee, but the Queensland government is under pressure to change that.

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Final report into deadly Qld flood due

Queensland's Inspector-General Emergency Management will hand the state government the result of its review into the handing of the February and March floods.

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Rent freeze: what will the Greens achieve if it comes into effect in Queensland?

Greens bill being introduced to parliament will seek to freeze residential rents across the state for two years

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The Loop: Chris Dawson likely to appeal murder conviction, Queensland plane crash victims named, and squashing a world record in a pumpkin boat

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This That music festival cancelled for 2022

NEWCASTLE'S biggest annual music festival, This That, has cancelled its 2022 edition due to economic factors. After two years of COVID-caused cancellations, This That had planned to return to Wickham Park in its preferred springtime slot on November 5. However, on Tuesday festival organisers released a statement announcing the cancellation…

Newcastle Herald

Huge profits for fossil-fuel giants Woodside and Santos stoke calls for windfall tax

Senator David Pocock and Bob Carr among those urging Albanese government to claw back massive mining profits

The Guardian - AU

Man dies after suspicious Qld house fire

A 65-year-old man has died in hospital after he was critically injured in a suspicious house fire in north Queensland earlier this month.

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Man investigated over fatal Ayr house fire dies in hospital

A man at the centre of a homicide investigation over a house fire in north Queensland has died in hospital, three weeks after his partner perished in the blaze.

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Diversity plan for Qld worker shortages

The Queensland government will encourage businesses to employ more women, people with disabilities and migrants to fill forecast worker shortages.

AAP

Paul Green farewelled at funeral service at Wynnum-Manly Seagulls' Kougari Oval, with rugby league greats in attendance

The former halfback and coach of the North Queensland Cowboys and Queensland Maroons died earlier this month.

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Queensland plane crash victims identified as millionaire businessman Tom Strachan, son Noah, and pilot Garry Liehm

Millionaire businessman Tom Strachan, his son Noah and pilot Garry Liehm are identified as the three people who died in a light plane crash in the Somerset region, west of Brisbane, on Monday.

ABC News

Queensland taxpayers foot $2 million bill for inner-west Brisbane school planning

Five years, two preferred locations and millions of dollars later, the state government is still determining the best location for the new inner-west primary school.

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Investigators probe deadly Qld plane crash

Air crash investigators and Queensland police are probing a light plane crash west of Brisbane that killed three people.

AAP

Social workers ease pressure on Gold Coast's stretched mental health services

Social workers are now at the frontline of the fight to mitigate Queensland's mental healthcare crisis amid a nationwide shortage of psychologists.

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Disability advocates calling for pensioners to re-enter workforce amid worker shortages

A mental health and disability support agency is desperately trying to fill 150 staff vacancies across regional Queensland as 1,000 hours of support work goes unallocated every week.

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Queensland set for unseasonal wet weather to start spring, thunderstorms to dump more rain over outback

South-east Queensland is set to receive a third of its September rainfall total this week as thunderstorms with possible large hail are forecast to dump more rain on outback regions.

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The ART of the deal: Queensland has a super plan for investing in social housing

What if there were a way to give super funds the returns they need while also letting governments tap Australia’s massive retirement savings pool?

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Queensland inquiry into Star casino should have scrutinised gambling regulator, insiders say

Queensland's casino regulator and its actions should be scrutinised by the state's inquiry into the Star Entertainment Group, industry insiders say, as the commission prepares to release its final report.

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Probe into Star's Qld operations wraps

Star Entertainment must wait until September 30 for the outcome of damning public hearings into the gambling giant's Queensland operations.

The Guardian - AU

Storms to hit most states as Sydney sets 164-year rainfall record

Rain gauge topped two metres for the year on Friday in NSW capital as forecasters expect wet week for large parts of the country

The Guardian - AU

Queensland inquiry considers decriminalising public drunkenness and begging

Move comes 30 years after Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission called for such offences to be scrapped

AAP

Qld parishioner charged with rape, torture

A church member has been charged with the rape and torture of teenage boys in Queensland, with police to allege the man abused his position within the parish.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland author Chelsea Watego launches racial discrimination case over 2018 arrest

State of Queensland tells tribunal the arrest was lawful, reasonable and proportionate and there is no evidence to support a claim of unlawful discrimination

The Conversation

'Stealth privatisation' in iconic national parks threatens public access to nature's health boost

Australia’s national parks in several states are under siege from privatisation by stealth. Developers are using the lure of ecotourism to build posh private lodges with exclusive access deep inside many iconic parks.

AAP

Thieves target dead Qld grandmother's home

The central Queensland home where an elderly woman was allegedly murdered has been broken into with jewellery and family heirlooms stolen.

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