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The extortion case is being heard in Cairns Magistrates Court.

Man charged over allegedly publishing name of high-profile man in extortion case

The Cairns man was charged on Friday night and is expected to front the Cairns Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

  • Julius Dennis

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Data shows that for the financial year to January, 41 of Victoria’s 75 health services didn’t have 14-day cash supplies to cover operating costs.

Gold Coast nurse who targeted six teen girls to stay behind bars

The mental health nurse accused of having a foot fetish and targeting vulnerable teenage patients was arrested at the airport at the weekend.

  • Robyn Wuth and Courtney Kruk
Indigenous activist Sam Woripa Watson was the first of six people arrested at a pro-Palestine protest in Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.

Seven arrested at Brisbane Palestine rally including flotilla activist detained by IDF

Seven people have been arrested at a pro-Palestine rally organised to test Queensland police’s enforcement of the government’s hate speech laws.

  • Courtney Kruk
Townsville mayor Nick Dametto was involved in an alleged altercation with a 28-year-old man on Sunday.

Townsville mayor at centre of assault allegations at bar

The alleged assault took place at a bar on a picturesque tourism island and was reported to police days later.

  • Courtney Kruk
Police arrested a 49-year-old Riverview man and charged him with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Brisbane’s CBD.

Man charged with rape of teen girl near Central Station

The 16-year-old reported the incident to police, who launched a month-long investigation into the random attack in Brisbane’s CBD.

  • Courtney Kruk
Priscilla Brooten.

‘Where’s Priscilla?’ Murder accused quizzed by friends

A man accused of murdering his American girlfriend gave different reasons for why she stopped going to gym classes, claiming she fled creditors or immigration enforcement, a jury has heard.

  • Rex Martinich
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The woman and toddler were killed in a crash in Queensland’s north on May 22.

Appeal launched on highway crash that killed infant, woman

The 23-month-old baby and a woman were killed in a three-car collision between Port Douglas and Cairns in late May.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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
A stolen vehicle crashed into a house in Marsden on Monday.

Teen trio of girls in hospital after stolen car crashes into house

Emergency services were called to the property following reports a car driven by teenagers had rolled and crashed into a two-storey home.

  • Courtney Kruk
A Tyre Deflation Device was successfully deployed by Queensland Police officers during the chase on Friday night.

Boy, 11, among four youths charged after wild Logan chase

The police pursuit ended when the driver of the allegedly stolen BYD lost control after a tyre deflation device was deployed.

  • Brittney Deguara