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The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Fatima Payman calls for Israel sanctions and divestment at Melbourne rally – as it happened

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Australia's 'big nowhere' in the eye of the beholder

Thirty years after swapping Cleo magazine centrefolds for cattle country, photographer Paul J Ryan's images of outback Australia are seeing the light of day.

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More than half of Australia sweats through heatwave as BoM forecasts more scorching temperatures

BoM expects hot weather to continue across parts of Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory next week

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Premier to keep score on cabinet's performance

Queensland's Premier David Crisafulli has ordered his ministers to follow specific deliverables in charter letters when tackling the state's various issues.

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Telling their truth: the Queensland Indigenous community defying a government with healing voices

When the LNP swept to power the state’s planned truth-telling and healing inquiry was shut down. But the people of Cherbourg won’t be silenced

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No relief as northern Australia swelters under heatwave

Heatwave conditions have hit northern Australia but there is no relief in sight, with high temperatures set to linger in the coming days.

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Grattan on Friday: Donald Trump’s win will make 2025 even more challenging for Anthony Albanese

Early Wednesday evening, Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan raced down the Parliament House stairs to collect a bag of McDonald’s from an Uber. To celebrate Trump’s victory, he called out as he ran.

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Truth-telling in limbo after minister cancels meeting

The Queensland government has postponed plans to discuss the Path to Treaty process, ensuring a truth-telling and healing inquiry's future is in limbo.

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Community rallies to combat blaze, families return home

Families are returning to their homes after a bushfire forced them to flee before a community rallied to help combat the blaze in Queensland's southwest.

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Only 25% of older Queenslanders are aware of the risks heatwaves put on their health – new study

Parts of Australia are currently facing extreme heat, with high temperatures set to continue over the coming days.

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Residents told stay away as fire burns out of control

Hundreds of residents who evacuated their Queensland town are being told it's unsafe to return as firefighters battle to contain a bushfire threatening homes.

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Pill testing to go ahead at Schoolies after backflip

The Queensland government remains staunchly against pill testing, but the free and confidential service will go ahead at Schoolies in a matter of weeks.

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BOM Issues Heatwave Warning For Northern Parts Of Australia & It’s Not Even Summer Yet

Brat summer? More like crispy summer.

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Peter Dutton rules out Coalition abortion policy changes and blasts MPs for stirring debate

It follows party criticism of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for condemning later term abortions, though opposition leader did not name names

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Labor leader to go the extra miles to be premier again

Labor's Steven Miles is ready to play the long game once again in his bid to become Queensland premier after being unanimously elected opposition leader.

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Patterson's big Shield return continues in NSW-QLD draw

Kurtis Patterson made it back-to-back half-centuries on his return to the Sheffield Shield as NSW held on to force a draw against Queensland.

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'Con job': government flushes hydro energy project

A report says a scrapped pumped hydro scheme proposed by the former Queensland government had no value for money, with costs blowing out to almost $37 billion.

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Lovell's maiden ton puts Qld in box seat against NSW

No.3 Angus Lovell's maiden Sheffield Shield century has powered Queensland to a 167-run lead against NSW in their Sheffield Shield match.

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To Labor’s Bisma Asif, becoming Queensland’s first Muslim state MP is ‘spectacular but ordinary’

In Asif – a young, brown, overseas-born woman – voters in Sandgate’s northern Brisbane bayside suburbs may see a more accurate reflection of their electorate

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Queensland truth-telling inquiry chair says premier ‘hugely disrespectful’ to demand work cease via media

Joshua Creamer says he has had no contact from new LNP government after David Crisafulli told press conference inquiry should cease its work

The Guardian - AU

Respawned: Queensland magazine the Cane Toad Times takes aim at a post-truth world

It emerged from the slime of the sunshine state during Bjelke-Petersen’s oppressive regime. Now it’s back – but can it survive more sensitive times?

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Conservation groups question Queensland commitment to renewables after hydro scheme scrapped

LNP urged to release details of its alternative energy plans within first 100 days of government

The Conversation

Which Australian states and territories perform best on gender representation in parliament? We crunched the numbers

Abortion became a key issue at the recent Queensland election, despite its decriminalisation in 2018.

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Family of driver involved in school crash says ‘we are all in shock’ – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

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In Norway, students get grades for their behaviour – could this work in Australia?

Student behaviour is one of the biggest issues facing Australian schools. A survey of Queensland teachers earlier this year found “managing student behaviour” was the main thing taking their time away from teaching.

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