Donald Trump's shocking victory on the heels of an equally surprising Brexit vote in the UK is rattling the major parties in Australia, and in the Queensland city of Ipswich people could not be happier.

A former criminal associate of Garry Dubois tells a Brisbane court his mistrust of police prevented him coming forward sooner about the 1974 killings of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters.

A woman charged with the cold case murders of a young mother and her brother in Deception Bay is denied bail in Brisbane following evidence she tried to interfere with a witness.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's "minor change" to her Cabinet is official, with Morayfield MP Mark Ryan swearing in as Police and Emergency Services Minister, and Bill Byrne as the new Agriculture Minister.

Concerns are being raised about an ongoing parliamentary inquiry in Queensland into the safety of combat sports, after a public hearing was cancelled.

A man convicted of killing his baby daughter could be out of jail within months, after being set a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years in the Supreme Court in Brisbane.

A Brisbane woman accused of allowing her baby girl to become malnourished and using the child's story to establish a GoFundMe page is granted bail.

A Queensland tyre recycling company that unloaded about 40,000 used tyres at a facility in south-west Brisbane is fined tens of thousands of dollars.

East Brisbane residents are worried about possible changes to the city's oldest World War I memorial to make way for peak hour traffic.

Police make a cheeky discovery finding a loaded handgun hidden between the buttocks of an alleged Rebels motorcycle gang associate in Brisbane.

At just 11-years-old, Joyce Dickinson was enlisted as an official plane-spotter in the Australian Volunteer Air Observers Corps, making her one of the country's youngest recognised contributors to the war effort in the 1940s.

Steve Blum may not be instantly recognisable but plenty of the hundreds of characters he has voiced across television, film, and video games over the past 25 years are.

Mark Ryan will replace Leanne Donaldson, who quit last week over personal financial issues, as a minister in the Cabinet of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

It took almost two decades for diabetes to take the eyesight of Brisbane opera singer Janelle Colquhoun, and she is warning other diabetics they could face a similar fate unless they take more care.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson advised the Queensland Government that the non-profit group he founded will cease "all negotiations" in relation to the troubled Aurukun school, briefly closed in May due to alleged violence.

Parliamentary debate on Labor's overhaul of the previous government's gang laws has been postponed until the end of the month.

Mine water laws passed overnight in Queensland Parliament are slammed by environmentalists for being too weak, while some mining interests argue they are too tough.

Garry Dubois confessed to his involvement in the alleged murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters, a friend and criminal associate of the murder accused tells a Brisbane court.

An unexpected vote in the early hours of this morning prompts the spectacle of half-dressed MPs running into the Queensland Parliament in shorts, bare feet, a State of Origin jersey and even a jacket without a shirt.

A group of people have started refurbishing the lawns, plaques and gardens at a Brisbane cemetery under the guise of "ghost gardeners".

Labor MP Jim Pearce criticises his own Government's handling of the mining industry, as he reveals about 90 staff will be made redundant from a central Queensland coal operation.

Brisbane residents will get an early taste of summer, with the city forecast to swelter through its warmest day since February as the mercury soars to 36 degrees Celsius.

The Queensland Government succeeds in passing laws to tighten groundwater licence requirements for mines, while also appeasing Indian mining giant Adani.

Researchers using aerial drones to photograph coastline in a search for dugongs partner with Queensland artificial intelligence experts to speed up the identification process.

There is nothing unusual about Queensland Rail recruiting internally for new train drivers, Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says.