QLD News

Baby boomGeneration lockdown: State’s birthrate gets a bump

A spike in pregnancies in Queensland has been linked to the two months the state’s COVID-19 restrictions began to ease.

Jane Armitstead

TragedyLittle Rylee just metres from help in hot car

As a three-year-old girl lay dying in a hot car in Townsville, her mother and her new partner were just metres away inside a house.

Chris Clarke & Sam Flanagan

Farm hands‘Like winning lotto’: Flown in for jobs we won’t take

Four planeloads of Pacific Islanders are being brought into Queensland in a last-ditch bid to stop unpicked fruit going to waste.

Hayden Johnson

CourtMy son is not a terrorist, says devastated mum

The mother of a Bundaberg man charged with a terrorism offence has taken to social media to declare his innocence.

Kay Dibben

Future frizzThe hairstyle you thought you’d never see again

For better or worse, this much-maligned hair-do is making a comeback in Brisbane salons – but not like you might expect.

Isabella Magee

ConscienceNew leader channels predecessor on emotive issue

He’ll give his MPs a free vote on this life-and-death issue, but LNP leader David Crisafulli is personally taking the position of his predecessor.

Domanii Cameron

Saved By MichelleIncrease your chances of winning on the scratchies

Just because you don’t scratch the winning symbols, doesn’t mean you don’t have a winning scratch-it ticket. FIND OUT WHY

Michelle Collins

Extreme weatherComing in hot: First signs of heatwave sear state

Queensland towns have roared into the 40s as a heatwave begins to make its presence uncomfortably felt across the state.

Nathan Edwards

Huge FIREIcons under threat as half of Fraser razed

Two of Fraser Island’s biggest tourist destinations remain on high alert as a bushfire scorches nearly half the island’s land mass.

Tobias Jurss-Lewis & Nathan Edwards

Groom triumphLNP easily retains safe seat in by-election

The LNP has retained its safe Darling Downs seat of Groom in the by-election sparked by the sudden resignation of John McVeigh.

Tobias Jurss-Lewis, Hayden Johnson & Tobi Loftus

Barefoot InvestorBanks teaching kids money is like Maccas teaching about diet

For far too long schools have outsourced the teaching of essential financial life skills to banks who have used it as an advertising play. But that stops now and the real education begins.

Scott Pape

Brisbane trafficMulti-vehicle crash causes Story Bridge chaos

Brisbane’s Story Bridge has reopened after a multi-vehicle crash brought traffic to a standstill.

CourtHospital worker swapped patients’ opiates for saline

A former hospital employee has been barred from providing health service after he swapped anaesthetic meant for patients.

Kay Dibben

EducationViolent students, work pressure puts teachers on edge

Stress and exhaustion is rife among Queensland teachers forcing them to question staying in the job. These teachers explain the reasons they have felt pushed to abandon the profession they love.

ANTONIA O'FLAHERTY

EducationTeacher bashed and stabbed: ‘I’m broken’

He was once an extroverted person who enjoyed playing sport and socialising, but after he was bashed and stabbed by students in separate attacks, Noel Gorringe says he will never be able to teach again.

ANTONIA O'FLAHERTY