A man has allegedly been found with guns in his car after crashing into multiple vehicles waiting in a Queensland school zone. The man was spotted allegedly driving at 142km/h in a 100km/h zone on Mary Valley Rd, Wide Bay, about 3pm on Tuesday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Man crashes in school zone during alleged … [Read more…]
Labor delegates passed a resolution to overhaul a century-old policy on religious instruction in schools, but the Education Minister is refusing to act. VOTE IN THE POLL Grace Grace’s stance comes days after Labor delegates passed a resolution at the State Conference which called for an overhaul of century-old policy. Melinda Dodds, a member of … [Read more…]
Labor delegates passed a resolution to overhaul a century-old policy on religious instruction in schools, but the Education Minister is refusing to act. VOTE IN THE POLL Grace Grace’s stance comes days after Labor delegates passed a resolution at the State Conference which called for an overhaul of century-old policy. Melinda Dodds, a member of … [Read more…]
Car thefts in Queensland have surged past a 10-year high set just before the pandemic. See the worst areas in our interactive map. Affluent suburbs in Queensland are being targeted by young criminals stealing luxury vehicles in sneak offences with two carjackings occurring in the state’s southeast in just the past 24 hours. A woman … [Read more…]
A leading Queensland DNA lawyer says many innocent people are still languishing in jail and Kathryn Folbigg’s pardon must change the way the “outdated, cumbersome and slow” Australian justice system deals with wrongful convictions. The tragic story of Kathleen Folbigg is an example of a “broader problem” in Australia’s legal system, says Kathleen Folbigg’s Lawyer … [Read more…]
A Gold Coast man has been ordered to pay his parents’ neighbour $3300 for calling him a “f****** German c***”. However Jason Scott Murray denied using the xenophobic phrase, instead claiming he called Dirk Huenerberg a “vermin c***”. Murray had targeted the 75-year-old Huenerberg while out the front of their respective Bunderoo Circuit, Pimpama, properties … [Read more…]
A little Queensland boy whose fight for life made headlines when his bone marrow donation was bungled has suffered another setback, with the eventual transplant failing to spark his recovery. Six-year-old Mateoh Eggleton, from the Gold Coast, underwent a stem cell transplant in March in a bid to combat haemolytic anaemia. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: … [Read more…]
A police officer has defended the decision not to charge Charmaine McLeod’s ex-partner with rape months before she died in a car crash with their four children. The Coroners Court in Brisbane on Monday started its second week of hearings into the head-on collision that killed McLeod, 35 and her children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, … [Read more…]
A grieving man who saw one friend killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by an allegedly intoxicated driver while motorcycling near Brisbane has decried road safety as becoming “markedly worse”. Neil Mendham has issued an impassioned call for safer road use after the death of Darren* – a tourist from the UK … [Read more…]
With the southeast reeling from two dangerous carjackings in 24 hours, the latest Queensland Police data shows car thefts are up 18 per cent across the state, and have more than doubled in some regions over the past 12 months. CCTV captures a stolen car driving along Harrison St, Bulimba, before a resident’s vehicle is … [Read more…]