Police are launching a Christmas crackdown on e-scooters, with thousands of Queenslanders receiving the popular devices as gifts or snapping them up in Boxing Day sales. 

A man has been charged with murder after Police say he “deliberately drove into” a beloved country rugby league identity in his own front yard.

Police are desperately hunting for a woman seen with facial injuries before she went missing on Christmas Eve. 

An independent adviser has been called in to assist a South East Queensland council jolted by internal issues leading to community calls for its mayor to be dismissed. 

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