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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Higgins |Claudia Williams
The Coalition's pitch for nuclear power in Australia appears to be struggling for support among some key voters, as the nation prepares to vote on its energy future. New data from the ABC's Vote compass survey shows respondents are divided on nuclear energy, while support for climate change action appears to have softened.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Three men have been charged with armed robbery after allegedly forcing their way into a Brisbane home disguised as delivery workers and stealing more than $1 million in cash. Police allege the men entered the house at Karawatha with handguns and dressed in a uniform for a fake removals and cleaning business, wearing fake beards and Santa hats, on January 3.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
For 52 years people were removed from their homes and forced to live on an island off the Queensland coast. More than500 people were sent to a colony on Peel Island in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, from 1907 until its closure in 1959. They all had one thing in common — they had been diagnosed with leprosy. For many it was a life sentence, with about 200 people buried on the island. "It wasn't a hospital.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams |Rachel Stewart
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki says he has been warned by Treasury there is a "growing risk" the state's AA+ credit rating will be downgraded. A lower rating would lead to higher borrowing costs for the state for projects ahead of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. It comes as Treasury forecast in the June budget that coal revenue was expected to weaken over the forward estimates.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Jessica Black |Claudia Williams |Grace Ann Whiteside
By Jessica Black, Claudia Williams, Grace WhitesideA Comanchero outlaw bikie gang leader has been charged over Australia's largest ever cocaine seizure, police say. A transnational organised crime syndicate with links to the Comancheros is alleged to have attempted to bring 2.34 tonnes of cocaine into Australia.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland's Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry will pause its work plan despite concerns stopping it would be a "lost opportunity", as the newly elected state government vows to end the inquiry. In the lead-up to Saturday's election, now-Premier David Crisafulli said his government would not continue with the inquiry and would repeal the state's Path to Treaty Act. Today, Mr Crisafulli confirmed it would be scrapped but said he did not wish to make it a "divisive issue".
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland's Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry will pause its work despite concerns stopping it would be a "lost opportunity", as the newly-elected state government vows to end the inquiry. In the lead-up to Saturday's election, now-Premier David Crisafulli said his government would not continue with the inquiry and would repeal the state's Path to Treaty Act. Today, Mr Crisafulli confirmed it would be scrapped but said he did not wish to make it a "divisive issue".
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has finally revealed he believes in a "woman's right to choose" after facing repeated questioning over his stance on abortion ahead of Saturday's state election. Premier Steven Miles called on Mr Crisafulli to give a yes or no answer to whether he believes in a woman's right to choose during the final leaders debate on Tuesday night. "It probably won't work for his TikTok, but yes," Mr Crisafulli told voters.
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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 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland premier Steven Miles and Opposition Leader David Crisafulli will go head-to-head today in a leaders debate with less than two weeks to go before the state election. However Queensland University of Technology adjunct professor John Mickel said with Mr Crisafulli leading the opinion polls as preferred leader since mid-last year, the debate would have to be a "disaster" to have a marked impact at the polls.
