Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale defends relying on “poor old developers” to help fund his campaigns, as he faces a grilling at the Crime and Corruption Commission hearing into alleged corruption at the 2016 council elections.
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Is working in a group really that important?
Group work. You either love it or you hate it. But how important are those team-building courses that are often part of the modern workplace?
Goodbye Clive: Palmer to disband PUP
Clive Palmer says he will cancel the registration of his Palmer United Party, which at its height boasted four members of Federal Parliament with the mining magnate himself representing a seat on the Sunshine Coast.
Mega solar farm planned for Gympie
A company proposing to build Australia’s largest solar farm near Gympie says the $2 billion facility will eventually supply about 15 per cent of south-east Queensland’s power needs.
Liberal backbencher Stuart Robert paid independents to take on Labor
Federal MP Stuart Robert denies any wrongdoing for donating $60,000 to two independent council candidates, telling the Crime and Corruption Council he would need to “spend a lot more defending our ideas” if Labor had won power.
Lawyers fear courts, hospitals will wear legal service cutbacks
Queensland’s only free legal service for Indigenous women is among community legal services concerned about the flow-on effects from impending funding cuts.
Community puts up $8,000 reward for safe return of stolen koalas
A Sunshine Coast wildlife group says three stolen koala joeys will be “starving to death” if they are not getting the right level of care.
Cyclone Debbie recovery to hit Queensland budget bottom line
Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt can no longer guarantee a surplus in the June budget because of the recovery costs from Cyclone Debbie.
What happens after you lose a loved one to domestic violence
When Gold Coast woman Teresa Bradford was murdered by her estranged husband, her family was left to pay the $8,000 funeral cost and pressured to clean up the property where she was killed.
Big blue adventure for science festival turtle hatchlings
The World Science Festival’s popular turtle hatchlings are released into the East Australian Current off the south-east Queensland coast.