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Adani referred to consumer watchdog over 'misleading' employment claims
A community legal service urges Australia’s consumer watchdog to crack down on Adani for “misleading vulnerable jobseekers” with “inflated” claims its Queensland mine will create 10,000 jobs.
Murder victim Maureen Boyce was no socialite, husband says
Graham Boyce says love and respect helped him stand by his wife Maureen Boyce despite their difficult marriage, and he hopes her murder will shed more light on the “scourges of domestic violence and mental illness”.
Thomas Lang sentenced to life for murder of socialite Maureen Boyce
The on-again, off-again lover of Brisbane socialite Maureen Boyce is sentenced to life in prison for her murder, after her body was found impaled to the bed with a kitchen knife in her Kangaroo Point apartment in 2015.
Seqwater 'ignored' consistent forecasts of flooding rain in 2011, court hears
A Sydney court is told Seqwater dam engineers were preoccupied about the “adverse media effects” and “major embarrassment” of unnecessary water releases just weeks before the 2011 Brisbane and Ipswich flood.
Can you cancel Christmas? One mother has
A Queensland mother gives her three children one week to improve their behaviour before she cancels Christmas. But is this doing more harm than good? One expert says there are other ways of handling bad behaviour.
Justin Bieber impersonator to stand trial on 900 child sex charges
A 42-year-old Brisbane law lecturer is alleged to have posed as pop singer Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from young children overseas.
England keep second Test alive on day four, as it happened
England kept the second Ashes Test in the balance with both bat and ball on day four in Adelaide. Relive the action as it happened in our live blog.
Gloves are off for Brisbane's black belt family
Mother versus son. Husband versus wife. The Pitts family come to blows to achieve a rare martial arts milestone.
Ruff justice: Ipswich council funds website for barking dog complaints
Barking dogs rub so many people up the wrong way that the Ipswich City Council has decided to fund a web developer to create a site that helps people notify their neighbours anonymously.