Wildlife officers were deployed to find the reptile but the environment department has now said the man’s injuries were not consistent with a croc attack.
Category: Updates from Brisbane Times – Queensland
MP quiet on $30,000 campaign contribution source, says staffer-turned-candidate
An electorate officer for federal LNP MP Stuart Robert has contradicted her boss in a hearing into whether disclosure law was broken during local government elections in Queensland in 2016.
Brisbane City Council falls short of delivering promised CBD motorcycle bays
Brisbane City Council has failed to deliver 94 replacement motorcycle parking bays for those lost to the Queen’s Wharf development by the end of February.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate calls for a cap on campaign donations and spending
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate has called for donation caps as a way to prevent the types of allegations that have resulted in a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation into his and two other south-east Queensland councils.
Audit slams Qld police crime statistics as 'inaccurate' and 'questionable at best'
Among the findings was that officers in the Gold Coast district had employed methods aimed at having victims withdraw their complaints to increase the clearance rate.
One Nation candidate Mark Ellis quits over 'abuse, threats to family'
One Nation has lost yet another candidate for the next Queensland election, with former policeman Mark Ellis announcing he has withdrawn his candidacy.
Hog-ties, use of dogs for discipline to be banned in Queensland youth detention changes
Almost two decades after an investigation revealed failures in Queensland’s youth detention system, several of those issues still remain, a damning report has revealed.
Teenager who groped women in Gold Coast surf avoids conviction
A Victorian teenager who groped several woman in the surf at a Gold Coast beach, touching his victims’ buttocks, vaginas and breasts, sometimes under their bikinis, has avoided conviction.
'Looking like we'd lose a couple': Fisherman tells of 'perfect storm' capsize
A man has told of saving a fishing companion who couldn’t swim after a “perfect storm” overturned a boat in Moreton Bay on Wednesday morning.
Barnaby Joyce scolds 'tardy' Queensland over disaster funding
The acting Prime Minister says relief for farmers and small businesses affected by Cyclone Debbie is “imminent”, despite a “tardy” state government effort.