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Queensland police to have power to issue on-the-spot domestic violence protection orders

Domestic and family violence experts warn measure risks victims being wrongly labelled as perpetrators by police

The Guardian - AU

Crime spiking in regions as youth crackdown challenged

One state faces a "regional crime crisis" with roots in family dysfunction and a tougher laws and crackdowns will not fix it, a leading youth advocate says.

AAP

Try time: why the Reds have refused to take the points

The top-of-the-table Queensland Reds have shown such faith in their forwards that they're yet to opt for a penalty goal attempt this Super Rugby Pacific season.

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Broncos' Walsh thrives on Ponga boost in Maroons duel

Brisbane fullback Reece Walsh has pledged his allegiance to Australia in representative football despite his diverse heritage.

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State of the states: six politics experts explain the key seats across the country

The five-week election campaign is now in full swing throughout the nation.

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Outback town reels as Mother Nature opens the floodgate

A town is reeling from record flooding after a levee broke, inundating every business and impacting 90 per cent of homes in the southwest Queensland community.

AAP

‘Australia is a landlord’s market’: rents still at record high despite slow growth, report shows

Kingsford Smith, Bradfield, Sydney and Warringah in New South Wales and Fadden in Queensland are the five most expensive electorates, data shows

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Northern NSW braces for heavy rain as Queensland flooding forecast to move south

Emergency workers mobilise amid fears wild weather and swollen rivers could inundate parts of mid north coast, northern rivers and northern tablelands

The Guardian - AU

Collation of quirky collections a compelling exhibition

From tiny architectural models to purses, shoehorns and axes, some rather quirky collections are celebrated together in an exhibition at a city museum.

AAP

Queensland’s recovery to ‘take months and years’ after floods sweep across vast interior

Bureau of Meteorology predicts flooding could continue for weeks as stock losses already estimated at over 150,000

The Guardian - AU

Flood drama as panicked residents plucked from roofs

Details have emerged of dramatic rooftop helicopter rescues as floodwaters the size of NSW impact a sodden state, with water levels not easing soon for some.

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Queensland police commissioner tried to access records of alleged domestic violence victim to investigate her

State’s chief magistrate denied police access to female police officer’s confidential domestic and family violence documents this week

The Guardian - AU

Election Diary: Dutton flags intervention in what he sees as ‘woke’ education, but how much could he actually do?

Peter Dutton came perilously close to a DOGE moment on Monday night, when he was asked about getting the “woke” agendas out of the education system. Noting the Commonwealth government “doesn’t own or run a school”, Dutton told a Sky audience in Brisbane that people wondered why there was “a…

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Aussie cops to give shooting testimony against US man

US prosecutors have successfully argued Australian police can give evidence at the trial of a man accused of links to deadly shootings.

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One Australian’s dramatic rescue from a flood in one of the driest places on Earth

As floodwater flows passed towns and cattle and sheep stations – normally isolated by desert – many now sit as islands amid a muddy sea

The Guardian - AU

Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst

Queenslander ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs as judge finds his video about American gamer Billy Mitchell was ‘recklessly’ based on false claim

International Business Times

'Heartbreaking' Floods Swamp Australia's Cattle Country

Whole herds of cattle have drowned in vast inland floods seeping across the Australian outback, officials said Tuesday as the muddy tide drenched an area the size of France.

AAP

Incarceration crisis: youth laws to face UN scrutiny

Australia's juvenile justice system could come under international scrutiny as one state seeks to make its youth crime laws even tougher.

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Torrential rains created devastating inland seas in outback Queensland. Soon, they will fill Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre

The small Queensland town of Eromanga bills itself as Australia’s town furthest from the sea. But this week, an ocean of freshwater arrived.

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'Just too much water': town flooded after levee breaks

The entire population of a remote town have fled for higher ground after a levee broke as floodwaters twice the size of Victoria cause more havoc.

The Guardian - AU

Outback deluge pushes Queensland towns to the brink: ‘Out here it’s drought or floods’

Questions about funding and infrastructure as biggest flood since 1974 isolates towns and causes ‘soul-destroying’ stock losses

The Guardian - AU

Music industry figures rally behind Queensland award winner after pro-Palestine controversy

More than 2,000 people sign petition in support of jazz musician and composer of River to Sea

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Rain records to fall in Queensland with Townsville to set new annual high – in April

Meanwhile, Adelaide records driest period in decades and Perth swelters through temperatures above 35C

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'Double the size of Victoria': flooding threat spreads

Floodwaters double the size of Victoria have forced many people to flee their homes and head for higher ground, with no relief in sight.

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'Adult crime, adult time' youth offender laws expanded

More offences will be added to Queensland's "adult crime, adult time" laws as the government moves on its election pledge to make the community safer.

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