A former Queensland education boss allegedly used “unspoken pressure” to secure a job for a friend of the department’s director-general Julie Grantham.
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Victorian woman found after dumping backpack on Gold Coast beach
The backpack with the woman’s belongings was found on Kurrawa Beach during the early hours of Monday morning.
Other states dump 1 million tonnes of rubbish in Queensland
A new Four Corners investigation has found 60,000 tonnes a month are transported from NSW to Queensland.
Hung jury discharged in Gateway Motorway death trial
A jury has indicated it is struggling to reach a verdict in the trial of a New Zealand father of three charged over the death of a man on a busy Queensland motorway in 2015.
Man accused of filming children in Gold Coast shopping centre bathrooms
Police have charged a man after he allegedly filmed three children in Gold Coast shopping centre bathrooms during the past two weeks.
Brisbane man charged with raping a mother and her daughter
A Brisbane man has been charged with raping a mother and her daughter and molesting another of the woman’s children.
Paul Tully tops polling ahead of Ipswich mayoral vote
Acting Ipswich mayor Paul Tully, who for years served as deputy to embattled former mayor Paul Pisasale, has topped the first major poll held in the city ahead of the August 19 byelection.
I, robot: Say hello to Pepper as Brisbane hosts largest robotics festival
The world’s first “social” robot will be joking, dancing and chatting with attendees to Australia’s largest robotics festival in Brisbane this August.
Whale and charter boat collide, knocking passengers unconscious
A charter boat was thrown “out of the water” and passengers knocked unconscious after a whale slammed into the vessel off the coast of Bowen.
Ghost stories from residents of Brisbane's cemeteries rise from the dead
The ghosts of Brisbane’s past have been brought back to life in a new book, which looks into the stories of those buried under the tombstones in cemeteries across the region.