Julius Dennis is a reporter for Brisbane Times.
The Cairns man was charged on Friday night and is expected to front the Cairns Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
The councillor will argue the council needs to diversify its rates base, with more than half of Redlands residents leaving the city for work.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released a preliminary report into the fatal Western Queensland crash in April.
A Brisbane trial has collapsed after a 65-year-old woman vanished from her own fraud case following a wild scuffle between her daughter and court security.
Jarrod Bleijie wrote to two developers, telling them to scrap the cheaper components of their projects and replace them with standard market-rate housing.
Four councils, including Brisbane, are running food recycling trials for apartments, resorts and retirement homes.
An investigation has found senior industrial relations figure Helen Burgess was “blatantly” dishonest about her relationship with a successful job applicant.
The blaze threw fireballs and billows of smoke into the air in the early hours of the morning.
Queensland deals with roughly 1000 complaints about local councillors each year, with some deeming the system broken entirely.
The trio have been sentenced over a “black flight” from Queensland to a remote and dangerous Indonesian province late last year.