Queensland News

News TRAVELLING to and from a family farm at Mundubbera as a child, seeing the dry country was enough of a wake up call for Neridah McGregor to want to help.

News THE Central Queensland community has rallied around the family of 30-year-old Daniel Wickham, who was tragically killed in a workplace tree-lopping accident.

News YELLOW sunflowers and frangipani blooms have been placed beside Queen St in tribute to a 38-year-old man who was fatally struck by a four-wheel-drive.

Politics OPPOSITION Leader Lawrence Springborg said the way Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk handled the Jo-Ann Miller saga was appalling.

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Politics BUNDAMBA MP Jo-Ann Miller’s fall from grace is complete after she sensationally quit Cabinet on the final sitting day of the parliamentary year.

News A FINE issued to a Bundamba retiree who failed to keep his lawn mowed while recovering from coronary treatment has been withdrawn.

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News A SHOE belonging to Queensland schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer has been found at the same Gold Coast river where her body was located.

News IT WILL be mandatory for Queensland magistrates to consider ouster conditions after new laws were passed by State Parliament today.

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News A SENATE inquiry that focused heavily on the collapse of Walton Constructions has recommended sweeping changes to the way the construction industry operates.

News MCDONALDS Australia have announced an all-day breakfast menu will be introduced across all Queensland stores by February 2016 as part of a nation-wide roll-out.

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News PHONE book distributors Sensis have rejected claims by Lawrence Springborg that the service may stop deliveries in the future.

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Crime A MAN found guilty of sexually abusing his stepdaughter in Mackay and Collingwood Park has lost his bid to overturn his conviction.

News UPDATE: A 12-year-old boy missing from Goodna and last seen in Woodridge on November 19 has been located safe and well this evening.

Crime POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Bundaberg overnight.

News ONLY weeks after it was restored, vandals have once again destroyed the iconic wave mural in the canefield near Pacific Paradise.

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Crime A GRANDMA inexplicably began banging her head on the pavement then spat at a police officer as he tried to give her a helping hand.

News THE creation of a legal nudist beach would be worth $50 million a year to the Noosa economy, the Australian Sex Party claims.

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News CAPTAIN Dudley Jacobs drowned in Gladstone harbour on June 11, 2011 aboard the Adonis tug boat. A coronial inquest has found his death was “entirely avoidable”.

News A 22-YEAR-OLD Bundaberg father who had a “brain snap” and threw his three month old daughter, fracturing the baby’s ribs, has been jailed for 12 months.

News BUS driver Wim Baas sat quietly at the back of a court room, his right arm in a sling, as the man who bashed him at a bus stop was sentenced yesterday.