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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Liam Walsh |Alex Brewster
It is grey, windy and drizzling rain as Joanna Moss and her partner, Andy, load up on sandbags at Macleay Island, one of the first pieces of land predicted to face the punch of Tropical Cyclone Alfred. The cyclone is still a day or two away, but already the water is coming up high on the mangroves as the tide rises. They have temporarily shut their 8th Sense Kitchen, which sells everything from gelato to pastries, as the wild weather threatens to bear down.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Alex Brewster |Jack McKay |Jack Mckay
Former Queensland deputy premier Jackie Trad's "aggressive advocacy" saw the appointment of a top bureaucrat who was deemed "not appointable" by an independent panel, a report has found. An investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) into Ms Trad was tabled in parliament on Wednesday evening. The report related to the independent recruitment process of a former under treasurer — the chief executive of Queensland Treasury — which began in 2018.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Alex Brewster |Jack McKay |Jack Mckay
Queensland's premier has distanced himself from his pre-election pledge there would be no new stadium for the Brisbane Olympic Games under an LNP government. The billion-dollar stadium debate has raged since the Gabba was first selected in 2022, before the Queensland Sports and Athletics Centre took its place.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Alex Brewster |Jack McKay |Jack Mckay
Queensland's budget will plunge deeper into the red, with surpluses previously forecast by the former Labor government eroded into deep deficits. The new LNP Treasurer David Janetzki will today hand down the Mid-Year Fiscal and Economic Review (MYFER) — promising to reveal "hidden" cost blowouts and "unfunded" services. The update will show the $887 million surplus for 2026-27 that Labor had initially projected in their last budget will now be a deficit of more than $9 billion.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Emma Pollard |Alex Brewster
Queensland's new LNP government has accused the former Labor administration of lying to the community about the cost and viability of a huge pumped hydro scheme, branding it a "con job" and "hoax". Premier David Crisafulli has followed through on his election commitment to scrap Labor's Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro Project, slated for an area west of Mackay, in north Queensland.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alex Brewster |Claudia Williams
Indigenous leaders are vowing to "fight the fight" to help their communities tell their stories as the LNP stands by its promise to stop Queensland's Truth Telling and Healing inquiry, if elected on Saturday. Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Mayor Bruce Simpson said the inquiry was helping to correct "so many hurts and wrongs" the community had faced. "The healing can only begin when Queensland and Australia hears our truth," he said.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Matt Eaton |Alex Brewster
The sister of murdered Gold Coast woman Kelly Wilkinson says an LNP plan to place trackers on domestic violence offenders would have been "the difference between life and death" for her sibling. On Friday morning, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, joined by federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, vowed to implement the domestic violence offender tracker program.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Sarah Simpkins |Jenae Madden |Alex Brewster
A worker at the Byerwen Coal Mine near Glenden, about 160km west of Mackay, has died in a surface incident involving two vehicles. It's the second death this month at the Bowen Basin mine, which is owned by the Brisbane-based QCoal. Queensland Resources Minister Scott Stewart has told Queensland Parliament he had been informed of the death. "There has been an incident between a haul truck and a light vehicle," he said.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Alex Brewster |Rory Callinan
Some Queensland women are going their entire pregnancy without seeing a doctor because the state relies too heavily on midwives, according to a leading obstetrician. Speaking after an ABC investigation exposed allegations of substandard maternal care at Redcliffe Hospital, north of Brisbane, Dr Gino Pecoraro said a "midwife-centric" healthcare model was putting mothers and babies at risk. In a 15-month period, one baby died and two were stillborn at the public hospital, while others were injured.
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May 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Arianna Levy |Alex Brewster
Queensland is forecast to record back-to-back deficits over the next two years, in what the state government says is a deliberate move to support those struggling with the cost of living. The upcoming state budget will detail an expected $3 billion deficit for the 2024-25 financial year, before reducing to a deficit of less than $1 billion the following year. It's a stark difference from the $122 million surplus previously forecasted, followed by an expected $91 million surplus the following year.