Kristian Silva

• Anna Bligh appointed as Australian Bankers' Association CEO

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 17, 2017 11:00:10 | Updated February 17, 2017 17:11:23

  Former Queensland premier Anna Bligh is appointed as CEO of the Australian Bankers' Association, an industry group representing 25 banks across the country.

  Topics: banking, people, alp, regulation, brisbane-4000, qld, nsw

• Clive Palmer 'can't remember $15m payments', court hears

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:28:09 | Updated February 16, 2017 00:10:56

  Clive Palmer tells a Brisbane court he cannot remember details of multi-million-dollar payments made by his mining empire while he was chairman.

  Topics: clive-palmer, courts-and-trials, mining-industry, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810

• Offensive Wicked Campers vehicles face de-registration on Queensland roads

  By Gail Burke and Kristian Silva

  Posted February 15, 2017 06:50:37 | Updated February 15, 2017 11:00:35

  Sexist, obscene and other offensive slogans on vans and vehicles, found on holiday hire vehicles such as controversial Wicked Campers, are being made illegal in Queensland.

  Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, brisbane-4000, qld

• Charges laid over alleged one-punch assault at Redbank hotel

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 12, 2017 12:42:31 | Updated February 12, 2017 12:58:26

  A man is charged over the death of a 69-year-old man who was the victim of an alleged one-punch attack at a hotel near Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, redbank-4301, brisbane-4000, qld, ipswich-4305, australia

• 'Doomed to fail' man jailed for attacking officer during arrest

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 10, 2017 14:23:57

  A man who threw a police officer through a glass window during an arrest was "doomed to fail" from birth, his lawyer says, as a judge sentences him to five years in prison.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, police, assault, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld

• Queensland lawyer slams Daily Mail over 'irresponsible' court story

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 09, 2017 17:31:41 | Updated February 09, 2017 18:17:01

  Lawyer Bruce Peters hits out at the Daily Mail over a "cut-and-paste article" that disrupted the manslaughter trial of Phillip Pama this week.

  Topics: media, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, qld, brisbane-4000

• Accused thought one-punch victim was 'joking' when he collapsed

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted February 07, 2017 16:18:05 | Updated February 07, 2017 19:09:43

  A man charged with manslaughter over a one-punch attack tells a Brisbane court he did not realise his neighbour had suffered serious injuries and thought he was "playing some jokes" after collapsing from the blow to the neck.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, qld, boondall-4034, australia

• Trainee drivers 'sitting about' as rail crisis unfolded: union

  By Kristian Silva and Nick Wiggins

  Posted February 07, 2017 07:16:30 | Updated February 07, 2017 10:15:51

  A shortage of driving instructors meant Queensland Rail staff who were supposed to be learning how to operate trains were left "sitting about" during the state's rail crisis, the drivers' union claims.

  Topics: government-and-politics, unions, rail-transport, state-parliament, parliament, qld, brisbane-4000

• Doctors operated on wrong body parts, left surgical equipment in bodies, report finds

  By Kristian Silva and Lexy Hamilton-Smith

  Posted February 01, 2017 19:20:36

  Nearly 50 serious mistakes occurred in the Queensland public health system between 2010 and 2015, a new report finds, with incidents including seven cases of medication-dispensing errors which led to deaths.

  Topics: health, medical-procedures, doctors-and-medical-professionals, brisbane-4000, qld

• Another former LNP MP joins Pauline Hanson's One Nation

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 31, 2017 07:16:27 | Updated January 31, 2017 11:39:29

  Pauline Hanson's One Nation party secures its fourth LNP defector in Queensland, with former Logan MP Michael Pucci joining as state campaign director.

  Topics: one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, logan-central-4114, qld, brisbane-4000

• Queensland Government 'defending racism' with discrimination case appeal

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 31, 2017 07:14:07 | Updated January 31, 2017 12:34:44

  The Queensland Government is perpetuating racism and injustice in backing a court challenge against a landmark Palm Island discrimination case, Indigenous health campaigner Professor Gracelyn Smallwood says.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, discrimination, community-and-society, race-relations, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld, brisbane-4000

• Ex-Billabong boss jailed for defrauding millions from bank

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 27, 2017 11:28:44 | Updated January 27, 2017 23:56:13

  Former Billabong chief executive Matthew Perrin is sentenced to eight years in jail for fraud over the forging of his then-wife's signature to access more than $13 million from the Commonwealth Bank.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, brisbane-4000, qld

• Police bugged car of Logan terror accused

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 24, 2017 13:49:07 | Updated January 24, 2017 15:58:42

  A Queensland man charged with stockpiling weapons for a terror attack in Australia and trying to recruit members for Islamic State is ordered to face trial.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, terrorism, brisbane-4000, qld, logan-central-4114

• Police officer reprimanded for 'excessive' arrest

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 21, 2017 09:28:47

  A tribunal finds Brisbane police officer who pushed a disabled driver into a petrol bowser during an arrest was guilty of 'significant misconduct'.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, qld, deagon-4017, brisbane-4000

• Older motorists struggling to pass Queensland driving tests, figures show

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 20, 2017 07:31:01 | Updated January 20, 2017 11:45:08

  One in two people over 35 did not pass their driving test last year, falling well behind younger drivers who a master driver trainer says benefit from being "less jittery and more confident".

  Topics: road, safety-education, community-and-society, people, qld

• Queensland Rail fails to uncover mystery emoji tweeter

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 19, 2017 07:20:20

  Queensland Rail says it has not been able to identify the person who posted a laughing face emoji from its Twitter account during last year's rail crisis.

  Topics: government-and-politics, public-sector, alp, brisbane-4000, qld

• Unknown long-term effects of medicinal cannabis cause for concern: AMA

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 18, 2017 07:24:15 | Updated January 18, 2017 07:57:44

  It is likely some GPs will refuse to dispense medicinal cannabis when the drug becomes legal in Queensland, the Australian Medical Association's state president says.

  Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, laws, activism-and-lobbying, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld

• Medicinal cannabis 'out of reach' for Queensland families

  ABC Radio Brisbane

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 17, 2017 13:50:59

  A Brisbane father whose daughter suffers from terminal illness and has regular seizures says the state's new laws to legalise medicinal cannabis may not work.

  Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, laws, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld

• Who is One Nation's new MP Steve Dickson?

  By Kristian Silva and Nick Wiggins

  Posted January 13, 2017 13:54:22 | Updated January 13, 2017 16:19:04

  Steve Dickson's decision to join One Nation means he has been transformed from a low-profile Opposition backbencher to a potential powerbroker in the Queensland Parliament.

  Topics: one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, political-parties, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, buderim-4556, maroochydore-4558, qld, australia, brisbane-4000

• Internet dating to blame for rise in STIs, doctor says

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 13, 2017 07:25:30 | Updated January 13, 2017 10:09:51

  The number of Queenslanders treated for sexually transmitted infections is on the rise, with one doctor saying quick internet dating is leading to patients presenting who have had four to 10 partners in one day.

  Topics: sexuality, community-and-society, health, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, sexually-transmitted-diseases, qld

• Bus involved in fatal Moorooka attack to be destroyed

  By Courtney Wilson and Kristian Silva

  Posted January 12, 2017 15:04:06 | Updated January 12, 2017 16:57:25

  The bus which was torched during an attack that claimed the life of driver Manmeet Alisher will be destroyed, the Brisbane City Council says.

  Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, local-government, moorooka-4105, brisbane-4000, qld

• Ipswich Mayor pulls funding for Harmony Day event over Shan Ju Lin's comments

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 09, 2017 21:36:07 | Updated January 09, 2017 21:40:32

  Ipswich City Council pulls funding from a World Harmony Day event organised by former One Nation candidate Shan Ju Lin, who was dumped by the party over anti-gay comments.

  Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, pauline-hanson, one-nation, local-government, ipswich-4305, qld

• Proposal for world's tallest building on 1986 Queensland cabinet agenda (photos)

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted January 01, 2017 09:12:46 | Updated January 01, 2017 09:52:21

  Bad polls or a slip of the tongue can easily end political careers these days — not so the case in Queensland during 1986, today's release of cabinet documents reveal.

  Topics: public-sector, state-parliament, government-and-politics, history, community-and-society, 20th-century, qld

• Half of all seabirds have plastic in their stomachs: CSIRO

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted December 23, 2016 07:04:48

  Eleven pieces of plastic, on average, can be found along each metre of coastline between the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast, causing harm to marine life, new research by the CSIRO reveals.

  Topics: pollution, water-pollution, environmental-management, animals, environment, maroochydore-4558, qld, southport-4215

• 'Good Asians will like me': Meet One Nation's Taiwanese candidate

  By Kristian Silva

  Posted December 21, 2016 07:02:35 | Updated December 21, 2016 19:07:15

  One Nation candidate Shan Ju Lin rejects suggestions party leader Pauline Hanson is racist and says she fears the Chinese Government could "take over" Australia if its influence is not curtailed.

  Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, pauline-hanson, political-parties, one-nation, bundamba-4304, qld, sunnybank-4109, sunnybank-hills-4109, brisbane-4000

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