Queensland’s home-school regulator needs overhaul,review finds
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Queensland’s home-school regulator needs overhaul,review finds

A rethink of the burgeoning home-school sector has been proposed amid a tripling in the number of children taught at home.

  • byMatt Dennien andFelicity Caldwell

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Classroom resignations are rising. But they’re not the full story
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Classroom resignations are rising. But they’re not the full story

Are more teachers leaving or being hired? It’s not the only question facing Queensland education in an election year.

  • byMatt Dennien
Qld’s home-school parents fight orders to teach Australian curriculum

Qld’s home-school parents fight orders to teach Australian curriculum

The state government has been warned that increasing its rules for home-schooling could push the movement underground.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
Impaired and detained teen spent days in 24-hour confinement

Impaired and detained teen spent days in 24-hour confinement

A judge has taken a swipe at Queensland government agencies for their management of an intellectually disabled Indigenous boy.

  • byZach Hope
Qld to splash up to $250m on third children’s prison to fix capacity

Qld to splash up to $250m on third children’s prison to fix capacity

The site will be built near existing detention centres to address nation-leading capacity pressures. But it’s been called a “Band-Aid solution”.

  • byMatt Dennien
‘Fever pitch’:Youth prison workers walk off job amid assaults,threats

‘Fever pitch’:Youth prison workers walk off job amid assaults,threats

Detainees at Brisbane’s youth prisons allegedly attacked staff with a makeshift knife and punched another in the face in separate incidents this week.

  • byZach Hope
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Unclear which Labor ministers rubbed shoulders with business elite at fundraiser

Unclear which Labor ministers rubbed shoulders with business elite at fundraiser

A Labor election fundraiser with Queensland government ministers was promised to be transparent,but official diaries provide little clarity over the event.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
Queensland child safety system'struggling to cope',audit office finds

Queensland child safety system'struggling to cope',audit office finds

In the past year,the Queensland Audit Office identified five examples where young adolescents slept overnight in police stations because of a lack of placement options.

  • byMatt Dennien
Investigation launched into'horrific'cases of alleged child neglect

Investigation launched into'horrific'cases of alleged child neglect

Child Safety Minister Di Farmer announced the investigation on Friday after the death of Willow Dunn and discovery of two teenage boys at a home in Stafford.

  • byMatt Dennien
Queensland to hold domestic violence summit in wake of Camp Hill tragedy

Queensland to hold domestic violence summit in wake of Camp Hill tragedy

The announcement came outside the inaugural meeting of the state's re-established Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council.

  • byMatt Dennien
Thousands of kids not seen by Child Safety on time were harmed or at risk

Thousands of kids not seen by Child Safety on time were harmed or at risk

The LNP has argued the Child Safety system is broken,after figures revealed thousands of children who were not seen on time had their cases substantiated.

  • byFelicity Caldwell