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Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australia’s longest-serving female premier, was underestimated until the very end

The Queensland premier always called her own shots. Right up until her retirement announcement, she took people by surprise

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Flexible schooling: how it sparked a ‘hysterical’ response and what families really think

Flexible school hours became front-page news in Queensland when the state government allowed schools to apply to change their hours

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With Annastacia Palaszczuk gone, can Labor achieve the unachievable in Queensland?

Democracies are, by nature, systems of stability and change.

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Annastacia Palaszczuk’s anointed successor, Steven Miles, likely to face challenge, say Queensland Labor MPs

While the deputy premier is considered frontrunner, suggestions his two rivals may team up would make vote ‘incredibly close’

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From ‘accidental premier’ to trailblazing leader, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s power sprang from her warm personal politics

The Queensland premier leaves office as perhaps the most successful Labor politician in a generation

The Guardian - AU

Residents warned of Cyclone Jasper's destructive power

Tropical Cyclone Jasper is heading for far north Queensland and is predicted to unleash widespread destruction with the loss of power, water and the internet.

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‘Given My All’: Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk Has Announced Her Retirement From Politics

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced she will be stepping down from her position in the state's top job.

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'Time for renewal': Queensland premier Palaszczuk quits

Annastacia Palaszczuk is being hailed as a "Labor hero" after calling it a day as Queensland premier, as her deputy throws his hat in the ring for the top job.

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Steven Miles confirms run for Queensland Labor leader – as it happened

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Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk retires from politics

Labor leader says state is ‘in good shape’ and ‘now is the time for me to leave’ following months of speculation about her future

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Queensland police investigating alleged domestic violence stabbing murder at Kallangur

Woman found in critical condition north of Brisbane later died at scene while 32-year-old man died in hospital following injuries sustained in nearby house fire

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Two nabbed over botched 560kg cocaine import off WA

Two men have been charged over a botched attempt to import 560kg of cocaine which came undone when one of them needed rescuing off the WA coast.

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Heatwave, fire, flood and cyclone: Sydney temperatures peak at 43C amid wild weather across Australia

As NSW sweltered in heatwave conditions, Cyclone Jasper bore down on Queensland and Adelaide expected close to 50mm of rain

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Cyclone Jasper swings towards Australia

Tropical Cyclone Jasper has started to swing towards Australia and is set to weaken before intensifying again as it approaches the Queensland coast.

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Foreign relations: why an isolated Arizona man was arrested in connection to the Wieambilla shooting in Australia

Facebook posts show Donald Day Jr increasingly withdrawing from community and society as he grew closer to those he met online, including Queensland couple who killed police in 2022 shooting

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Man seriously injured in shark attack

A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being bitten on the leg by a shark off the central Queensland coast.

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Mother of boy found dead in pool charged with murder

More than two years after Tarrin-Macen O'Sullivan was found dead in a pool, his mother has been charged with the four-year-old's murder in north Queensland.

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Advocates urge targeted programs in youth crime plan

Advocates have called on the state government to develop a comprehensive plan to tackle youth crime with the current strategy to expire this month

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Triple-zero 'risk' as paramedics reject huge pay offer

A pay offer that would have lifted NSW paramedic pay by an average of 19 per cent - putting them nearly on par with interstate colleagues - has been rejected.

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Tributes Have Flowed For Josh Taylor, The 23-Year-Old Tragically Buried Alive On A Qld Beach

“Goodbye mate, until we see each other again," Taylor's family said in a statement. Police are still probing the circumstances around his death.

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Hanson COS Ashby to stand for One Nation at election

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby will stand for the party in the state seat of Keppel at next year's Queensland election.

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Weather station staff to be evacuated as cyclone looms

Tropical Cyclone Jasper is moving toward the Queensland coast, prompting the Bureau of Meteorology to evacuate staff from a remote weather station.

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States swelter in 40C temps as bushfire risk soars

A heatwave across four states has left Australians sweltering and placed firefighters on high alert, as schools closed and thousands of people lost power.

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Wieambilla shooting arrest: Donald Day Jr’s day of reckoning at an Arizona Dairy Queen

Day’s friends had shot dead two police who came to their Queensland property. The FBI was taking no such chances

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Man 'posted online video threat' after police shootings

A US citizen has been accused of posting a video online threatening violence against police days after a religiously-motivated terrorist attack in Queensland.

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