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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says nuclear waster could safely be stored in Australia.

Teen accused of terror plot over Liberals’ nuclear policy

A teenager planned to use homemade explosives targeting Liberal Party members and a public event in response to Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy, a court has been told.

  • Rex Martinich

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Former Queensland chief justice and robo-debt royal commissioner Catherine Holmes AC SC is among the latest signatories to open letters calling for action over an “outward racist ideology” expressed by police union president Ian Leavers last month.

Scathing police finance report puts former leadership in CCC sights

Queensland’s anti-corruption agency has been asked to probe poor financial governance at the top of a police service said to have been “living beyond its means”.

  • Matt Dennien
Opposition leader Steven Miles addressed hundreds gathered in Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens on Tuesday to support abortion rights and protest a Katter’s Australian Party attempt to force abortion debate in parliament.

What two inquiries and forced debate reveal about LNP and Labor’s lull

More than 18-months into government, the LNP is yet to fully shed its opposition-era attack footing. But Labor is also still struggling to find its feet as one.

  • Matt Dennien
Police Minister Dan Purdie.

Queensland parliament as it happened: Child safety report, e-bike laws in focus

In the third and final day of this week’s parliament sitting, controversial e-mobility laws are set to pass.

  • Matt Dennien
Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow, president of Jigsaw Queensland, said the inquiry heard of adoption “largely as a policy mechanism rather than as a lived experience that continues across an entire lifespan”.

Adoption fix for child safety needs ‘robust safeguards’, service says

Queensland’s major forced adoption service provider has warned the government it must consider lifelong consequences as it forms its response to a major inquiry.

  • Matt Dennien
The federal government will fund a new free digital mental health support service.

‘Measure of failure’: $20m inquiry slams Queensland child safety crisis

The probe’s almost 1400-page report has called for sweeping overhauls, including controversial changes to adoption practices and out-of-home care.

  • Matt Dennien
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The planned Redlands Whitewater Centre at Birkdale.

‘In disbelief’: Fears for koalas after Redlands Olympic venue gets federal approval

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has welcomed the federal sign-off, but at least one outraged local group claims koala habitat is being sacrificed for an Olympic venue.

  • Cameron Atfield
Andrew Hirst delivers his outgoing speech as director of Liberal Party at its federal conference on Saturday.

‘Not our friends’: Outgoing Liberal chief’s blunt One Nation warning

Andrew Hirst used his departure after nine years as Liberal federal director to warn of One Nation’s rise, and that party membership skewed heavily male – and old.

  • Clay Lucas and Brittany Busch
Taylor withdrew the remark after being asked to do so by Speaker Milton Dick.
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Angus Taylor calls Anthony Albanese an 'arrogant prick' in question time

Taylor withdrew the remark after being asked to do so by Speaker Milton Dick.

Flotilla activist Helen O’Sullivan (centre) arrives in Brisbane on Monday morning, greeted by about 20 family members and friends including Liam Parry (left), the first person charged under new Queensland hate speech laws.

Gold Coast grandmother’s outlawed message on Israeli-issued prison clothes

The grandmother-of-eight recounted her journey from Italy to the coast of Gaza and an Israeli holding ship as she touched down in Brisbane.

  • William Davis