‘Simpler ways’:Labor’s public power retailer pitch sparks debate

‘Simpler ways’:Labor’s public power retailer pitch sparks debate

Queensland Labor has pledged to set up a new retailer to help drive down bills across the state if re-elected later this month,but not everyone is sold.

  • byMatt Dennien andCameron Atfield

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‘Maybe we could put 100 crocs in a city park’:A conservation issue gets snappy

‘Maybe we could put 100 crocs in a city park’:A conservation issue gets snappy

Booming saltwater crocodile numbers have led to calls to separate the predators from people – and new dilemmas.

  • byFrank Robson
Investigation as man dies after suspected shooting

Investigation as man dies after suspected shooting

A man’s body has been found with a gunshot wound to the neck on a busy central Queensland road.

  • byLaine Clark
Murder-accused behind bars after deaths of wife,baby in Rockhampton

Murder-accused behind bars after deaths of wife,baby in Rockhampton

A man has been remanded in custody over the deaths of a mother and baby whose bodies were found in a central Queensland home.

  • byCheryl Goodenough andJohn Crouch
Police lay charges as Facebook pulls plug on vigilante group

Police lay charges as Facebook pulls plug on vigilante group

Queensland’s crime debate has escalated to online-organised vigilantism in one town amid calls for calm. Two people have now been charged.

  • byMatt Dennien
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‘Another kick in the guts’:Thieves target slain Qld grandmother’s home

‘Another kick in the guts’:Thieves target slain Qld grandmother’s home

The family of a slain Queensland grandmother has been dealt another savage blow after thieves stole heirlooms and jewellery from her Rockhampton home.

  • byRobyn Wuth
Queensland woman charged with murdering eight-year-old boy

Queensland woman charged with murdering eight-year-old boy

Police carrying out a welfare check allegedly found the boy’s unresponsive body at a Rockhampton home. A 36-year-old known to the boy has been charged with his murder.

  • byTony Moore
Girl forgotten on bus for six hours was only child aboard that day
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Girl forgotten on bus for six hours was only child aboard that day

The three-year-old girl “forgotten” by staff and left in a minibus at a Queensland childcare centre remains in hospital.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Albanese pitches to farmers as Labor courts Queensland seats

Albanese pitches to farmers as Labor courts Queensland seats

Labor holds just six of the 30 seats in Queensland,but the party hopes it can win two or three more backing beef,blue-collar industry and tourism.

  • byRob Harris
‘My heart is ripped out’:Nurse killed in ambulance-truck crash named

‘My heart is ripped out’:Nurse killed in ambulance-truck crash named

Ray Wyeth was “one of the most valued midwives” in the region and had been working as a nurse in isolated Indigenous communities.

  • byToby Crockford