Hayden Johnson

Queensland Labor has defended an eight-year delay implementing a reportable conduct scheme that could have caught Australia’s worst paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith.

A loophole allowing people found guilty of a serious offence to get their guns back will be reviewed as part of possible reforms to weapons and hate speech laws.

Children will be banned from riding e-bikes, speed limits lowered and police given more powers to seize devices under nation-leading laws introduced to parliament this week.

Labor’s Di Farmer has found herself on the wrong side of a firm “no” from Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek, after being blocked from attending the annual Anzac Day ceremony at Camp Hill State Infants and Primary School — just outside her Bulimba electorate.

Just when David Crisafulli thought he had finally escaped the abortion wars, the Christian right is once again sharpening its pitchforks over a seemingly dry amendment to Queensland’s Medicines and Poisons regulations due to hit Parliament next week.

Tens of thousands of homes will be built in three priority development areas across Queensland as part of a $2.4bn partnership between the state and federal governments.

Special Commissioner for Regional Queensland Andrew Cripps will be paid about $100,000 more than the state’s five existing assistant ministers already doing the same job, government documents reveal.

Tensions flared at Victoria Park when contractors started setting up fences for drilling during a press conference organised by people opposed to the construction of Brisbane Stadium.

Power bills for people in southeast Queensland will fall by at least $155 in the upcoming financial year.

Brisbane 2032 organisers are in a race against time to build the city’s 63,000-seat Olympic stadium, which could cost more than the $3.8bn budgeted.