Ben Smee
Ben Smee is Guardian Australia's Queensland correspondent
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Ministers urged to revist ‘mistake of fact’ defence amid claims police and legal attitudes persistently frustrate prosecutions
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MacMines Austasia abandon plans, raising questions about basin’s viability as a source of Queensland employment
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Mining magnate says he sacrificed winning seats in the election for his United Australia party to prioritise keeping out Bill Shorten
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‘Our job now is not to engage in some year-long pity party,’ leadership aspirant says
Our wide brown land Slow poison: how Queensland government workers paid the price for fruit fly eradication