Arson detectives from the Queensland’s Crime and Intelligence Command have released a COMFIT image of a 'person of interest' in the ongoing investigation into suspicious fires in regional Queensland earlier this year.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/police-release-image-of-person-of-interest-into-alleged-arson-spree-which-destroyed-14-homes-c-11573561

By mid-last year about one in five roles at Queensland’s Cleveland youth detention centre were vacant.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/19/more-than-60-of-staff-at-queensland-detention-centre-quit-amid-record-influx-of-young-people

It was over almost before it began, but a demonstration in the public gallery of Queensland’s parliament could see climate activists spend a lot more time than that behind bars.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2023/10/22/protest-qld-jail/

Meanwhile, a hazardous surf warning is in place for Queensland’s Fraser Island coast and waters off Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast until midnight on Monday.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/auckland-braces-for-the-impact-of-ex-cyclone-gabrielle-20230212-p5cjvr.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Mr Caldwell’s photo has already been added to a Liberal-National Party of Queensland’s website gallery of the party’s elected representatives.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/2023/07/12/fadden-whats-bugging-voters/

Queensland’s Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Col Briggs said detectives had first been tipped off in 2021, but had been hamstrung by a lack of evidence.

Source: https://www.ghanamma.com/wn/2023/08/01/australian-man-charged-with-sex-crimes-against-91-young-girls/

Queensland’s gender pay gap has marginally improved, but women still earned far less than men and the state’s disparity remained larger than the national average.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-s-equality-scorecard-rife-with-gender-gaps-20230311-p5cr9v.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

Queensland’s Kevin Britten will look to defend his NSW title at a Grafton Speedway track which has been a happy hunting ground for him in recent seasons.

Source: https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/nsw-title-up-for-grabs-at-grafton-speedway

Queensland’s supreme court agreed with Leahy after he sued for being denied procedural fairness in September 2022.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/17/move-over-darryl-kerrigan-cottage-owners-defeat-of-giant-billboard-to-shake-councils-across-australia

Schools, including Queensland’s Maryborough State High School, have issued warnings emphasising their bans on energy drinks, but the Prime Hydration drink also appears to have cause for concern.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/04/10/prime-drinks-energy-hydrations/

That’s what artist Stephen Jesic kept telling himself while completing his latest major artwork featuring a family of Australian native Wedge-Tailed Eagles soaring over Queensland’s Lake Moondarra.

Source: https://newcastleweekly.com.au/the-eagle-has-landed-monarchs-reaches-morpeth/

The annual report for Queensland’s lung diseases register says 40 new cases of silicosis were recorded in 2021-22.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/silicosis-response-tantamount-to-industrial-manslaughter-says-expert-20230223-p5cn6l.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_politics_federal

The changes would make the state’s subclass 417 and subclass 462 visa holders fall in line with the Northern Territory’s and north of the tropic of Capricorn in Queensland’s conditions.

Source: https://ferntreegully.mailcommunity.com.au/news/2023-02-09/council-advocates-for-holiday-visas-holders-to-join-tourism-workforce/

The water situation in parts of Queensland’s far north has turned critical in the wake of major landslides, with residents on rationed drinking water.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland-residents-on-rationed-drinking-water-in-heatwave-conditions-20231229-p5eu93.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

Those thicker, so-called reusable plastic bags, made from 80 per cent recycled material, were at the same time governments, including Queensland’s, started banning the supply of single-use plastic bags.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/hey-woolies-and-coles-stop-delivering-my-groceries-in-bags-20230829-p5e0bn.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

“Together with the best minds we will chart a course designed to repair Queensland’s broken residential care system and start giving these kids a chance at a decent life,” he said.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/09/queensland-opposition-leader-calls-for-child-protection-overhaul

What have we learned since Queensland’s police and political corruption inquiry?

Source: https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/01/queensland-police-political-corruption-inquiry-phil-dickie/