A second man has been charged with murder after a woman was shot dead at a home on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.Police said the 25-year-old woman was shot during a loud argument at a home at Dicky Beach about 9.
The 25-year-old was dropped at a hospital on Friday with a gunshot wound to her head. Find out what happened.
In the red centre of Australia, a ring-fenced refuge for threatened native mammals is slowly but surely expanding its population.Earlier this week, 32 threatened greater bilbies moved in and 65 burrowing bettongs will join them before the weekend is out.
A man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman who was shot in the head at home on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.Police said the 25-year-old woman was shot during a loud argument at a home on Coolum St, at Dicky Beach, about 9.
The worker who stopped the woman from stealing was fired, but now new information has come to light. Watch it for yourself.
Queensland doctors are urging the Albanese government to increase Medicare rebates and hold a national summit to resuscitate health-care systems that are no longer fit for purpose.Public hospitals, primary and allied health-care facilities have been dealing with rising demand, lack of funding and procurement support and staffing shortages for years.
A 14-month-old boy spent two days on life support after his mother tied a dog leash around his neck, a court has been told.A 21-year-old woman has been jailed after trying to kill her infant son by hanging him by the leash off a backyard clothesline at her southeast Queensland home.
A former Queensland police officer has been charged with hacking and disclosing "official secrets" after a joint agency probe.The Crime and Corruption Commission says the 41-year-old was charged with six offences on Thursday after a joint probe with the police Ethical Standards Command.
A man is being questioned over the death of a woman who was shot in the head at home on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.Police say the 25-year-old was shot during a loud argument at a home on Coolum St, at Dicky Beach, about 9.
Queensland journalists won't face prosecution for protecting confidential sources, unless they're being questioned by the corruption watchdog, under new laws.The state is the last Australian jurisdiction to pass media shield laws protecting reporters from prosecution when they refuse to name sources in court proceedings.
There were jokes, laughs, sombre moments and a poem titled 'You ripper Roy' as Andrew Symonds was farewelled in style on Friday.Family, friends, cricketing teammates and fans gathered at Townsville's Riverway Stadium for the public memorial service, following a private funeral on Friday morning.
Police are hunting for a thief accused of re-stealing a car from a towing yard in Queensland. Find out how they used a front-end loader in the brazen burglary.
Queensland MP Melissa McMahon has divulged a harrowing childhood of sexual abuse as she takes a leave of absence from parliament.The Labor member for Macalister in Logan, south of Brisbane, on Thursday told parliament she would take time out to rebalance her life and family.
Queensland is planning to strengthen its gambling laws before a new casino opens at Brisbane's Queen's Wharf development, to be operated by Star Entertainment.The proposed changes are a response to recent inquiries into interstate casinos, and will help prevent criminal influence, Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman says.
The Liberal MP says he is 'not bald by choice' while responding to remarks he looks like the Harry Potter villain Voldemort. Hear what he said.
Stopping at a red light had deadly consequences for a dad on his way to celebrate Father's Day with his five children.Tylor Bell pulled up in a ute at the intersection in Gympie, north of Brisbane, on September 1, 2019 after leaving a shopping centre where he and Alex Robert Smart got into an altercation.
An inquest into a fatal plane crash off the Gold Coast that investigators say may have been caused by low level aerobatics will examine the pilot's training, the coroner says.Pilot Martinus Van Hattem, 52, and passenger Trista Lea Applebee were killed when the Soviet-era Yak 52 plane crashed near South Stradbroke Island in June 2019.
When green and teal voters flipped the apple cart on Saturday, they delivered a clear message about their expectations of the new government.What remains to be seen is who Anthony Albanese will trust to execute his plan to address climate change and fix Australia's depleted environment - issues that saw many voters turn their backs on the two major parties.
A judge hopes she will not be let down by a 33-year-old binge drinker who admitted committing a "smorgasbord" of crimes and "doesn't stop offending".Jon Dennis Gurney pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges including stealing and fraud which Brisbane District Court Judge Julie Dick said involved "really mean" offences like using friend's cards to buy jewellery he pawned.
A man has pleaded guilty over a "bizarre" knife attack in Queensland after stabbing a Gumtree seller and his elderly mother while buying a printer.Adam Curtis Brown was initially charged with attempted murder after attacking a 50-year-old man and his 82-year-old mother in Hervey Bay in April 2018 while collecting the online purchase.
Almost one in two Queensland patients waited more than 30 minutes to admitted after arriving in hospitals in ambulances in the March quarterQueensland Ambulance Service figures released on Thursday show 42 per cent of patients were ramped for more than 30 minutes during the first three months of the year.More than 60 per cent of the 568,000 patients who sought treatment in emergency departments had to wait more than four hours to be admitted.
A rebate will partially shield Queensland households from power bill shock, but the state government is being urged to start implementing long-term solutions to electricity price pressures.Energex has been approved to hike residential power bills in the state's southeast by $165 and $220, to between $1620 and $1961, in 2022/23.
The Greens have slammed the Queensland government for exempting casinos from curfews and ID rules to curb alcohol-fulled violence at venues.Labor has banned liquor sales after 5am and mandated ID scanners in venues in certain night precincts, but casinos will be exempt.
Citipointe Christian College's controversial enrolment contracts are the subject of discrimination complaints to be filed with the Queensland Human Rights Commission.The Brisbane school made national headlines this year over the contracts, which said it would only enrol students on the basis of the gender that corresponds to their biological sex.
Queensland will move to ban Nazi and other hate symbols to ensure extremists are "called out, confronted and condemned" amid rising anti-semitism in the state.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will make Queensland the second state to criminalise the display of symbols to promote hatred or cause fear, such as the swastika, which is also known as the Hakenkreuz.