Queensland’s youth detention centres could struggle to cope with an influx of 17-year-old offenders, the LNP says.
Category: Updates from Brisbane Times – Queensland
Fortitude Valley: the degentrification from high street to struggle street
Over the past 30 years Brisbane’s once high-end retail precinct of Fortitude Valley has declined into a derelict site of empty shops within crumbling buildings.
Brisbane shivers through coldest day in more than four years
There is much better news for the weekend, with mostly sunny conditions forecast.
Accused child groomer arrested at Brisbane Airport granted bail
A flight attendant accused of trying to groom an undercover detective who posed online as young girl has been granted bail.
Crash closes D'Aguilar Highway, woman seriously injured
The stretch of road was quickly closed and motorists were turned around at either end.
Prisoners to be given ice-cream to cool lockdown tensions
A company employed by the Queensland government to manage a high-security prison in lockdown over an industrial relations dispute says it will cool heightened tensions among inmates with ice-cream.
Woman charged after allegedly fleeing hotel disturbance before attacking police
The suspect fled from a disturbance at a nearby hotel, before attacking officers who were trying to detain her.
Second Queensland minister under fire over email use
The Queensland opposition has questioned Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s control over her cabinet after Steven Miles reportedly used his private email account to send sensitive government material.
More than 6000 flu cases so far in Queensland – and it's not even peak flu season
There have been more than 6000 cases of the flu in Queensland so far this year – more than double the year-to-date mean.
Arthur Gorrie prison staff locked out amid ongoing dispute
Dozens of guards have been locked out of Queensland’s second largest prison as tensions between staff and management escalate over safety concerns.