Category: ABC News – Brisbane Latest Updates

Legendary producer Ric Birch admits the operator behind iconic Commonwealth Games mascot Matilda was a little spaced out during the Brisbane 1982 opening ceremony.

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Bruce Kamau scores twice as Melbourne City kicks off the new A-League season with a professional 2-0 win over Brisbane Roar.

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A 30-year-old backpacker on his way home from a night out was almost hit by a car before getting into a fight with its driver and being fatally stabbed in the back and stomach, Queensland police say.

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The first national gun amnesty in more than 20 years collects more than 50,000 illegal firearms, including 16,000 from Queenslanders.

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Police reveal they have identified a taxi driver believed responsible for the 1986 murder of 20-year-old fruit shop assistant Sharron Phillips, but he died in 2002.

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Queensland’s Attorney-General orders the reopening of an inquest into the 1986 disappearance of Sharron Phillips after police reveal they have identified a man believed responsible for her murder.

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Having a Brisbane jury make the call on Alex Reuben McEwan’s mental fitness for trial is an “extraordinarily rare” case in law, says Queensland Law Society immediate past president Bill Potts, adding that he’s only seen it happen twice in 36 years.

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Any outdoor dunnies still standing in Brisbane backyards are being sought for an unusual museum being created by Queensland Urban Utilities.

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Former Ipswich City Council CEO Carl Wulff and a woman believed to be his wife are charged with official corruption as part of an ongoing Crime and Corruption Commission investigation.

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Alex Reuben McEwan is not mentally fit to stand trial for the murder of Korean woman Eunji Ban, a Supreme Court jury in Brisbane decides.

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