The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Daniel Shields pleads guilty to lesser charge over machete incident with Queensland love rival

A 50-year-old central Queensland man is given a suspended sentence for a malicious act of intent — during which he inflicted injuries upon a love rival with a machete — after an appeal late last year quashed his original conviction of attempted murder.

ABC News · May 3, 2022

Temperatures to drop in eastern Australia as ‘polar cold’ sweeps north

Cold front will spread through Victoria and the western and southern parts of NSW midweek, hitting western Queensland by Thursday

The Guardian - AU · May 3, 2022

Qld watchdog finalising laptop raid report

Queensland's corruption watchdog will send a report to senior public servants on its probe into the wiping of a laptop from the integrity commissioner's office

AAP · May 3, 2022

Woman dies after Qld waterfall plunge

A 19-year-old woman has died after she fell from a waterfall in far north Queensland.

AAP · May 2, 2022

Filmmaker Nathan Colquhoun captures sailor James Morrill's fight for Indigenous rights

The life of a shipwrecked British sailor who was taken in by an Aboriginal tribe is captured in a movie focused on his fight to protect his saviours from the brutalities of colonisation.

ABC News · May 2, 2022

Labor says power prices are going up. The Coalition says they aren't. Who's right?

“Power prices are going up”, shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers declared last week. But according to energy minister Angus Taylor, “No one’s household power prices have gone up.” So who is right?

The Conversation · May 2, 2022

Clive Palmer, his money and his billboards are back. What does this mean for the 2022 federal election?

Clive Palmer has had a tough run leading up to the 2022 election campaign. He faced COVID-19 without the protection of vaccination in March, tripped at his National Press Club speech and reported being knocked unconscious for about 20 seconds when he fell during a rehearsal for his United Australia…

The Conversation · May 2, 2022

Central Queensland rehab service opens, patients to have local support

A first-of-its-kind drug and alcohol rehab centre has opened in regional Queensland. It means people won’t have to travel hundreds of kilometres for help or go without.

ABC News · May 2, 2022

Queensland woman Zoya Olepir helps rescue her brother from war-torn Ukraine

Queensland woman Zoya Olepir could not bear another sleepless night wondering if her brother was still alive in Ukraine. So she travelled to a war zone to rescue Viktor, who lives with Down Syndrome.

ABC News · May 2, 2022

Unions eye pay rises that reflect inflation as Queensland public sector agreements expire

Teachers, nurses, police officers and transport workers all have agreements set to end this year

The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2022