Practice makes perfect,as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration,as the youth justice blow-up shows.
The police veteran of 44 years has been appointed to the top job after a two-month search to fill the early departure of his predecessor,Katarina Carroll.
The backlog of cases at a forensic DNA lab has increased to more than 41,000 as Queensland’s opposition calls for a strategy to address the beleaguered service.
There’s time to get the Games right,he says,but Brisbane’s advantage from an 11-year lead-up has been affected by the lack of an independent delivery authority.
The casino giant stares down licence suspensions in Queensland amid a second grilling in NSW,tied to tightly held reforms partially obtained by Brisbane Times.
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country,a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
Twenty-five years after prostitution was legalised in Queensland,the industry will be decriminalised to improve the lives of sex workers.
The Gold Coast couple who adopted an abandoned magpie will be reunited with their beloved bird,but will not be allowed to make any more money off the world-famous Molly.
The friendship between a magpie and two English Staffies is set to be renewed after the Queensland government agreed to give a Gold Coast couple a licence to care for the native bird.
The Miles government says a new Victims’ Commissioner will champion the rights of victims. But multiple groups have taken issue with the fine print.
Are more teachers leaving or being hired? It’s not the only question facing Queensland education in an election year.