Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has ordered a review of cases where male officers escaped punishment for predatory behaviour against female colleagues and has pledged to restore the confidence of people coming forward to make complaints.

Mental-health beds for new mums and acute-response teams to support suicidal children will be rolled out in Queensland as part of the government’s response to distressing revelations in the state’s system.

E-SCOOTER users busted speeding more than 30km/h over the limit will be slapped with a $575 fine under the Palaszczuk government’s safety crackdown on reckless riders.

Black widow Lindy Yvonne Williams spent days hacking apart the remains of her dead lover with a Bunnings electric saw before dumping his body parts at random in wheelie bins across Gympie and the Sunshine Coast.

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VICTORIA Cross recipient Daniel Keighran has called for more hospital resources in Queensland after he was left waiting seven hours for an ambulance, spending most of the time on his bathroom floor.

POLICE Commissioner Katarina Carroll is set to get new “no confidence” powers to sack rogue cops after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she supported the move.

THREE female detectives who complained about being bullied and harassed by their officer-in-charge say they regret speaking out because their careers went backwards as a result, while their bully got a promotion.

MORE than 100,000 megalitres of water will be released from Wivenhoe Dam in a bid to prepare southeast Queensland’s largest dam for a severe wet season, with residents told to use up as much as they want for the next fortnight.

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Staff shortages could see restaurants, bars and cafes closing their doors for almost half the week, offering limited menus and taking 25 per cent longer to serve customers this summer.

Children conceived by assisted reproductive technologies like IVF are more responsible, better behaved and have a healthier BMI in their adolescent years than those naturally conceived

The prospect of broken arms and jaws, death threats and disfigurement are a daily reality for staff at Queensland’s youth detention centres

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Defence projects worth billions of dollars will be closely monitored and required to submit progress reports under a federal government crackdown to stop critical builds falling behind schedule and going over budget

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A series of explicit messages has allegedly exposed the sordid trysts between a disgraced jailhouse psychologist and two inmates she was treating 

A devestated widow has told how controversial surgeon Daryl Stephens failed to detect her husband’s cancer 

An indigenous academic who allegedly drunkly called police officers “white c---s” after she was kicked out of a Fortitutde Valley nightclub has lost a racial discrimination complaint

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Nearly 30,000 Queensland drivers in their early 20s only have a learner driver’s licence

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All of the spending in the federal budget must be “defensible on economic grounds” Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said

Frustrated police union president Ian Leavers told a commission of inquiry he was “sick and tired with this government” repeatedly calling inquiries 

The handsome guitarist for a Queensland-based international death metal band is suing a UK music journalist and ex-flame for defamation 

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As a television journalist, Pippa Sheehan has reported on her fair share of sad stories, but it is her own story that has proven the most heartbreaking of all

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Tradies, emergency service workers, senior teachers and nurses would have their promised tax breaks trimmed if the Albanese government changed stage three cuts 

Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has admitted there is ­racism within the service after ­another explosive day of evidence before the commission of inquiry

Star Entertainment Group has been deemed unsuitable to hold its casino licences in Queensland following a damning inquiry

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Brisbane 2032 boss Andrew Liveris has stressed the importance of “optics” when it comes to including the Paralympics alongside the Olympics when talking about the Games

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Brisbane is now officially the toughest rental market in Australia after logging the highest annual rise in weekly prices in the country

Traditional owners of land where a mega pumped hydro project will be built have accused the state government of breaching protocol by not consulting them

Queensland casinos could go cashless and gamblers made to use cards linked to identification under recommendations expected to be made by an independent review 

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Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has admitted many male police officers were not properly disciplined for creepy and frightening sexual behaviour towards young female colleagues 

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Parents have been warned of an underground “fight club” culture that’s infiltrated into Queensland schools with students using social media to promote violence to gain notoriety. 

Australia is on the verge of a care crisis with a shortage of more than 212,000 mental health, aged and disability care workers forecast to leave millions of vulnerable people without the help they need. 

Commissioner Katarina Carroll is expected to face another grilling this week after being re-called to give evidence at the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence. 

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has reignited his fight to introduce daylight savings in Queensland, claiming that its absence is costing the Sunshine State a whopping $4 billion each year. 
 

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A Controverisal surgeon is under urgent investigation after an alleged surgical mishap left a man critically ill – just days after the medico was suspended by a different hospital following an outrageous hygiene breach. 

A young Brisbane man has been blasted in the chest with birdshot in a bizarre drive-by shooting on the Gold Coast as police hose down fears of more gang violence in South East Queensland. 

The Palaszczuk government has quietly bought seven new planes that the Premier and her ministers can use to fly around the state as part of a $157m aircraft splurge.  

And it’s been revealed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk did not notify Treasurer Cameron Dick before it was publicly revealed she had decided to shelve the controversial land tax laws he had championed for nearly a year. 

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Pre-pandemic life will return for vast majority of Australians on October 14 after National Cabinet decided unanimously to scrap mandatory Covid isolation on that day. 

An investigation has revealed that toxic workplace culture and “systematic” failures throughout Mackay Base Hospital led to botched surgeries and inadequate care that left three babies dead and dozens of women physically and mentally scarred for life. 

Cameron Dick has extraordinarily declared that he stands by everything he said over his land tax shakeup - despite the Premier being forced to personally intervene to scrap the changes. 

A former high-profile Australian journalist and news presenter known for eliciting the famed “please explain?” from One Nation-founder Pauline Hanson has been charged with assault. 

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