Politics
Queensland
Katarina Carroll to be Queensland's first female police commissioner
Queensland will get its first female police commissioner, with Katarina Carroll set to take on the top job.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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Food safety
Queensland government slaps ban on junk food ads
Junk food advertising will be banned from billboards, train stations and transport owned by the Queensland government.
- by Sonia Kohlbacher
Healthcare
Fears allowing pharmacists to dispense UTI drugs could boost 'super bugs'
Queensland will roll out a trial to allow pharmacists to provide once-off repeat prescriptions of the contraceptive pill and antibiotics.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Public Transport
Fare evasion on some school buses hits 99.3 per cent
There has been a spike in fare evasion in Queensland with reports groups of teenagers are taking advantage of the "no child left behind" policy to demand a free ride.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia should be available to children: civil libertarians
The Queensland government has launched an inquiry into voluntary assisted dying laws and palliative care.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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Government
Queensland's property developer donation ban is valid
Former LNP president Gary Spence challenged the ban on property developers donating money to politicians in the High Court.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Queensland Health
Pharmacists will be allowed to prescribe repeats of the pill under trial
The changes will be rolled out as part of a statewide trial in Queensland.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Child safety
Government's child killer laws get the green light to move ahead
The LNP has accused the government of "playing politics" with child killer laws, after a Labor-dominated committee recommended its bill not be passed.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Road safety
Neuroscience used to reprogram Queensland drivers
A new road safety campaign is encouraging Queenslanders to give other drivers a wave to say thanks when they let them merge.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Art
Julie Fragar on the art of depicting politics
She has painted well-known political figures Anna Bligh and Peter Wellington. Now Julie Fragar has turned her brush to question time.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Animal rights
New fines for Queensland animal rights activists
Animal rights activists who trespass on Queensland farms and abattoirs to protest will be slapped with fines worth hundreds of dollars under regulation changes that will take effect in days.
- by Sonia Kohlbacher