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The Latest Breaking News from Queensland

Queensland is to relax its drug laws, even for ice and heroin. How could it affect you?

The state government wants to expand its diversion program to personal quantities of anything from cocaine to meth.

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Townsville Maternal Fetal Medicine delays could be putting mothers, babies at risk: leaked report

Chronic patient backlogs are causing "risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes" at a major maternity unit that's the only public facility able to treat high-risk pregnancies in regional Queensland.

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Flooded Home Buyback scheme helps wash away the pain for Queenslanders

It’s almost a year since floods devastated parts of Ipswich in Southeast Queensland.

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‘Making the climate crisis worse’: Greens blast Labor after Queensland coal seam gas expansion approved

Decision allows Santos to open 116 new wells with an operational life of about 30 years in the Surat Basin

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Queensland’s plan to override human rights law ‘deeply concerning’, commissioner says

Scott McDougall alarmed at Palaszczuk government plan to make breach of bail an offence for children

The Guardian - AU

Climate change will hit Australia’s most populous states hardest, global report finds

Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland rank among the places most at risk from physical climate change in Oceania, a new report finds.

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Queensland to relax drug laws, implement three-strike rule for people carrying small amounts of drugs for personal use

Anyone caught carrying small quantities of illicit substances like heroin, cocaine or ice, will be given three chances before facing a criminal charge.

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BHP urged to support coal communities as they exit

BHP's decision to sell two Queensland coal mines has riled unions and renewed calls from the resource industry for a review of the state's royalty rates.

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BHP announces sale of Daunia and Blackwater coal mines, citing royalty hike frustration

Mining giant BHP announces its intention to sell two central Queensland mines, one of which has been operating for 50 years.

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Santos wins approval for 116 gas wells in western Qld

The federal government has given Santos approval to drill 116 new coal seam gas wells in Queensland's Surat Basin with an operational life of 30 years.

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Afternoon Update: Queensland admits bail reform ‘incompatible with human rights’; BHP profits slide; and Venice’s drying canals

State’s tough crackdown on youth crime draws criticism

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Qld to decriminalise possession of most illicit drugs

Queensland will move to decriminalise drug possession with police to refer people caught with illicit substances or utensils to diversion programs.

AAP

More than a dozen students hospitalised after gas leak at St George State School

Fourteen students and two staff members have been taken to hospital after a gas leak at a south-west Queensland school.

ABC News

Warning over rise in nitrous oxide abuse as service stations sell potentially deadly 'nangs' to teenagers

Canisters of nitrous oxide, known as "nangs" and linked to the death of a Queensland man, are readily available across Australia. But drug experts disagree on what to do.

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Fourteen children, two adults hospitalised after school gas leak

Sixteen people, including 14 children, have been taken to hospital after a gas leak at a Queensland school.

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Queensland to override state’s Human Rights Act in bid to make breach of bail an offence for children

Police minister Mark Ryan says the government accepts that its new laws ‘are incompatible with human rights’

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WTF: A UN Torture Prevention Body Had To Can Its Aus Investigation After It Was Refused Access

The only other country where this has happened is Rwanda.

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Queensland peg back NSW Blues in Sheffield Shield

Queensland have restricted NSW to 5-173 at tea on the opening day of their Sheffield Shield clash against Queensland in Brisbane.

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Queensland reviews future of cattle branding amid shortage of combinations

Queensland is running out of cattle brands and some producers are waiting up to six months for a new brand, prompting a government review on how livestock are identified.

Newcastle Herald

BHP records strong earnings from coal

BHP returns another strong result with coal as iron ore and copper both slip

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UN torture prevention body cancels Australia trip after refused access to detention, mental health centres

Australia has now joined Rwanda as the only other country to have inspections terminated by the United Nations, after the international body was denied full access to detention and mental health in-patient wards in New South Wales and Queensland.

ABC News

Queensland victims of crime collective slams 'system abuse' which they say favours young offenders

High-profile victims of youth crime in Queensland have formed a collective in an effort to decrease offending and the "injustice" in the system, which they say leaves them feeling "unheard, disregarded and unsupported".

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Obstetrics, anaesthetics jobs sit vacant as regional Queensland grapples with worsening maternity crisis

Prominent Queensland obstetrician Gino Pecoraro has called for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to attend a maternity forum next week to show she’s interested in solutions.

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Could prefab be a quick fix for the housing crisis? Queensland's government thinks so

Fifty-two homes — a mix of two and three bedrooms — will be delivered across the state in the coming months, but housing advocates say it's not enough.

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Coal giant Glencore pushes for law change to prevent 'legal challenges' to carbon project

Major coal miner Glencore has been lobbying for legislation to be changed to prevent legal challenges to a controversial carbon capture and storage project in the Great Artesian Basin.

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