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Queensland Police has been slammed as “completely tone-deaf” for hosting a display at a NAIDOC Week family event in Brisbane where children were invited to get in the back of a paddy wagon. The annual Family Day event held last week in Richlands, in Brisbane’s southwest, featured a Queensland Police display manned by a number […]

A father is in custody after his three missing children were found at a Queensland service station on Monday morning. The children — a three-year-old girl, five-year-old boy, and six-year-old boy — went missing on Sunday afternoon and were last seen about 4pm on Sunday. The children were believed to have been with a man […]

Concern that small Pacific nations may lose access to banking will be addressed at a forum starting on Monday, as China eyes ways to increase its influence in the region by filling the gap. Leaders of several Pacific nations, global financial institutions, US Treasury officials and senior banking representatives will meet in Brisbane from Monday […]

Australian police are cracking down on deadly drugs that have been cut with the synthetic opioid Nitazene, after four people died from suspected overdoses. Federal Police Commander Paula Hudson wants everyone to be aware of the dangers of consuming Nitazenes, which is 1000 times more potent than morphine. “Nitazenes have authorities very, very concerned, and […]

Malcolm Turnbull hit out at the thought of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton becoming prime minister on Sunday night’s edition of The Project. The former prime minister was strongly opinionated on the topic, saying the idea of the Liberal Party leader scoring the top position of power made him shudder. “I think that’s something we should […]

Bob Katter’s been a staple in Australian politics for nearly as long as anyone can remember. And this week, the prime minister announced the maverick MP was being given the rare honour of having a portrait commissioned to commemorate his decades of service. In making the announcement last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the […]

Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi has repeatedly refused to answer whether she believes “Hamas should be dismantled,” saying it’s not up to her to say “who should be gone or not”. Appearing on ABC’s Insiders for the first time, the NSW senator was asked five times whether the Islamic terrorist group responsible for the October […]

Three children – including a baby girl – are dead after a fire ripped through a house in the western Sydney suburb of Lalor Park. Police have a 28-year-old man is in custody. Two boys aged two and four were also killed in the fire in Freeman St early on Sunday morning. Four other children […]

Two homes have been destroyed and a man left with serious burns after a fire ripped through a suburb in Brisbane’s inner north on Saturday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the blaze that was affecting a multiple properties on Evelyn Street in Grange about 2.10pm. Several Queensland Fire and Rescue crews worked tirelessly to […]

Scientists examining the spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV H5) infections on Antarctic wildlife have found the virus has spread in Antarctica. A team of international scientists have been on the southern continent examining the presence and impact of bird flu on wildlife when they made the discovery in the Northern Weddell Sea area. […]