The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Police have charged a 59-year-old man with the murders of three people and the attempted murder of a fourth on a rural cattle property at Bogie in north Queensland.

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

Tanya Plibersek proposes rejecting Clive Palmer's Central Queensland Coal Project on the grounds it is likely to damage the Great Barrier Reef. It is the first time in Australian history a federal environment minister has set the wheels in motion to reject a coal mine.

Australia’s environment minister says billionaire Palmer’s Central Queensland Coal proposal would likely have ‘unacceptable impacts’ on reef

Queensland's Family and Child Commission says it's time to stamp out the practice, after the revelation that a hood was used on a child as recently as seven months ago.

NDIS participants in very remote parts of Queensland have access to just 57 per cent of services included in their plans, a budget estimates hearing was told.

Three people have died and a public safety emergency has been declared following a shooting the rural locality of Bogie in Queensland, Australia and the gunman remains at large

Just $15 a week is all that stands between a secure home and homelessness for one family in a southern Queensland regional city.

The authors are cultural men who have undertaken learning on and through Country with Elders in NSW, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. This piece is the product of their own experience and understanding and is not intended to represent the views of all Indigenous people.