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Queensland
Doctors label assisted-dying system ‘pedantic’ and ‘clunky’
As Queensland MPs prepare to debate assisted-dying legislation, doctors in Victoria – where euthanasia has been legal since 2019 – say the process there is overly bureaucratic.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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Commuters at risk as train drivers increasingly run red lights
Queensland Rail data shows the rate of trains passing through red signals has soared – up almost 50 per cent in March compared with 2020.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Tenants allowed to keep pets and rent increases capped under MP’s plan
Property owners would find it harder to kick out tenants under proposed law changes in Queensland.
- by Felicity Caldwell
‘You can build it’: Queensland Premier challenges PM on quarantine hub
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the federal government can design, build, own and operate a quarantine facility in Queensland.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Where there’s smoke, there’s call for crackdown on cigarettes in units
Apartment dwellers who annoy their neighbours with cigarette smoke could face stricter rules under proposed changes to the law.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Queensland opens 18 new vaccination hubs for people in their 40s
Queensland has also extended its hotspot declaration for Victoria for another week.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Queensland Rail cuts staff surplus targets to save cash
Maintaining a “structural surplus” to avoid the reliance on overtime was a key recommendation of the Strachan Inquiry following sudden mass cancellations.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Queensland Rail finally hits target of 200 new drivers
Hiring 200 extra train drivers and 200 guards was a key recommendation in the Strachan Inquiry sparked by train mass cancellations more than four years ago.
- by Felicity Caldwell
All Queensland aged care workers to be offered Pfizer vaccine
The Queensland government has stepped in to speed up the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines to aged care workers.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Palaszczuk defends pay rises for herself, other Queensland politicians
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had previously asked for no pay rises for MPs until after the COVID-19 pandemic.
- by Felicity Caldwell
‘A fabulous idea’: Ministers, Bulimba residents get behind green bridge
Two Queensland cabinet ministers have told Brisbane City Council to stop playing politics and investigate building a green bridge east of the Story Bridge.
- by Tony Moore