The value of unpaid mobile phone fines being chased down by the state’s debt collection agency has skyrocketed by more than 800 per cent in the wake of new cameras being used to catch reckless drivers. 

The grieving husband of Emma Lovell has backed the push for a law named in her honour following her brutal stabbing murder. 

Anthony Albanese has snapped at a group of noisy protesters as he delivered one of his final speeches for the year. 

Paramedics are called out to mental health emergencies at a rate of one every 10 minutes, with internal Queensland Ambulance Service documents revealing a staggering increase over five years. 

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