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The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Queensland’s north hit by heavy rain and floods as tropical storm heads south

Widespread rainfall expected in state’s south-east this weekend but nowhere near the 500mm recorded in the north-west

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Unprecedented flooding sparks evacuations in north-west Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria

Emergency situations are unfolding as never-before-seen floods inundate north-west Queensland and rivers rise to record levels.

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Afternoon Update: Labor, Greens strike deal in ‘big win for the climate’; Oscar nominees get piece of Queensland; and is Twitter falling apart?

Government agrees to Greens’ amendments in what the minor party leader Adam Bandt called a ‘constructive approach’

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Oscar nominees gifted 1 sq metre of Australian scrub – but they can’t ‘use’ the land

Academy Awards gift bag includes ‘a symbolic souvenir’ of pieces of Queensland, which sell on company website for $79.95

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Qld sentencing data could make case for raising the age

Less than 10 per cent of young offenders in Queensland are under 14, a report says, as states weigh increasing the criminal age of responsibility.

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Evidence refutes claims of youth crime wave, former Queensland children’s court boss says

John Robertson warns lumping together all children in contact with the justice system risks undermining community safety

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Queensland school students in hospital after eating substance

Fourteen Queensland children are in hospital after they became sick from eating an unknown substance on a school bus in Townsville.

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School kids in hospital after eating unknown substance

More than a dozen children are in hospital after they became sick from eating an unknown substance on a school bus.

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Major flooding hits towns, airport in northwest Queensland

Remote and Indigenous communities and an airport are facing record flooding after heavy rainfall in Queensland's Gulf Country.

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Major flooding hits towns, airport in northwest Qld

Remote and Indigenous communities and an airport are facing record flooding after heavy rainfall in Queensland's Gulf Country.

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Walsh just another brick in Broncos wall: Walters

Brisbane coach Kevin Walters has turned the Broncos into his own 'Department of Defence' ahead of the home Queensland derby clash with North Queensland.

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Queensland Herbarium's first female director Gillian Brown reveals Mount Coot-tha botanical collection

Gillian Brown is in charge of a collection of more than 900,000 botanical species, and has even identified a new genus of plant that she found on the side of an outback road. Her favourite specimen though is the zombie fungus, which grows on insects' bodies.

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Burnett Mary Regional group to produce biofuel with commercial pongamia crop

An environmental group is set to produce biofuels for the Japanese aviation industry by establishing a commercial pongamia plantation in Queensland.

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Champion bush trainer, wife and jockey banned by racing watchdog over Birdsville jigger scandal

Queensland's racing watchdog disqualifies trainer Todd Austin for five years, his wife Toni for one year and jockey Ric McMahon for three and a half years, after photo emerged of McMahon with a banned electric shock device.

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Qld plans green energy hub amid coal plant delay

Queensland state-owned CleanCo is calling for expressions of interest to design a clean energy hub after a public coal plant delayed its return to the grid.

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BOM says tropical low causing flooding in north-west Queensland will weaken, head south-east

Dalby, on the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane, saw its third driest summer since 1900 while the Gulf flooded, but welcome rain is now expected.

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Ipswich's old coal power station to be transformed into renewable energy plant

Swanbank Power Station's transformation is part of the Queensland government's aim to have 70 per cent renewable energy by 2032.

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Qld power station won't run at full capacity until 2024

Queensland state-owned electricity generator CS Energy has flagged that its Callide power station may end up running at reduced capacity for almost three years.

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Prisoner checks 'substandard' in hours prior to death

Queensland Police found a Brisbane Watch House officer did not complete adequate safety checks on Aunty Sherry, an Indigenous woman who died in custody.

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Queensland whistleblower ‘vindicated’ by former Logan mayor Luke Smith’s guilty pleas

Sharon Kelsey, fired as Logan CEO after reporting misconduct, says Smith’s admission of guilt was a long time coming

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Capewell laces up for star Cowboy's aerial assault

Brisbane were exposed by breakout North Queensland star Jeremiah Nanai in the corresponding game last season and Kurt Capewell is intent on avoiding a repeat.

Newcastle Herald

Queenslander facing 22 charges after alleged Newcastle break-in spree

"Police will allege in court the man, from Queensland, had broken into homes at Hamlyn Terrace, New Lambton, Merewether, Cameron Park, Randwick, Eleebana, and Valentine."

The Conversation

Qld agrees to allow donor-conceived people the right to know the identity of their donor. Here’s why it's important

Last week, the Queensland government accepted in principle recommendations from a 2022 inquiry into the rights of donor-conceived people.

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Rising flood water in north-west Queensland causing logistical nightmare for emergency services

Supplies are being flown, trucked and shipped thousands of kilometres across the state to remote communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria isolated by flood. But as waters continue to rise, operations are becoming more complicated.

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Medical gels made from spinifex grass to provide 'safer' treatments, jobs for Indigenous Australians

Scientists in outback Queensland are combining traditional Aboriginal knowledge with western medicine to develop a new treatment for conditions such as arthritis, while also creating STEM jobs for First Nations people.

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