Rachel Stewart is the state political reporter for ABC News in Brisbane. She files across television, online and radio news platforms. In 2022 she jointly won a Queensland media award for radio news current affairs reporting. Rachel joined the ABC in 2014 and has worked as a video journalist in Ipswich, and as a cross-platform reporter in Bundaberg and Mackay.
Labor changed sitting hours in 2018 to make parliament more "family friendly". The government says reverting to late sittings will give regional MPs more time in their electorates.
The Making Queensland Safer Bill will be debated in state parliament next week after going through a fast-tracked committee process.
Queensland's treasurer warns there's a heightened risk of the state's credit rating being downgraded.
A Queensland youth organisation has described children leaving detention centres as a "sacrificial lamb", as public hearings for the state government's crime law changes get underway.
Queensland may have a new state government but the same issues surrounding a centrepiece stadium for the 2023 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games persist.
Despite launching the biggest door knocking campaign in any state or territory, the Greens are expected to lose their inner-city seat of South Brisbane and went backwards in its other nearby seat of Maiwar.
The Queensland Police Service has confirmed it will exceed its budget for the 2024-2025 financial year due to "rising costs and approved commitments".
The 50 new bulk-billing GP clinics will be established somewhere in Queensland if a Labor government is re-elected, the ALP announced today.
Queensland Labor needs to convince regional voters it deserves a fourth term in government, but it has a tough battle on its hands from the LNP.
Party leaders hoping to win the votes of Queenslanders blitzed the state over the first week of official election campaigning.
Labor is vying for a fourth term in government but is facing a tough battle from the LNP, particularly in regional Queensland.
The government has faced scrutiny after premier Steven Miles confirmed Star Entertainment Group sought financial help such as payroll and gambling tax deferrals.
The Queensland Liberal National Party has unveiled a $383 million election commitment to improve the child safety and residential care systems, including a pilot program to pay professional foster carers up to $100,000.
Vyleen White was stabbed to death at an Ipswich shopping centre. Six months later, police now have more powers to stop and search people there.
The legislation, known as Jack's Law, allows police to use handheld metal detectors to search people without a warrant.
Queensland's premier made a bold statement in a major speech this week, vowing he would leave no stone unturned ahead of the state election and issuing a challenge to the opposition leader.
An inquest has heard Constable Rachel McCrow recorded a message for her family before she was murdered in the ambush in Queensland in December 2022.
Queensland's police commissioner says taking two private jets to regional cities for a series of announcements in April with the premier and other MPs cost taxpayers about $167,000.
Crime and Corruption Commission chair Bruce Barbour says the reporting model proposed for the watchdog is "not appropriate" and "inconsistent with the public interest".
A free, voluntary and confidential pill testing service will be available at schoolies celebrations at Surfers Paradise this year, but only if Labor retains government in October.
The decision to appoint Kurt Pauls to the Queensland government's workplace health and safety board, after he was fined $30,0000 for entry breaches on a construction site, has been questioned.
Queensland's largest hospital has received an $8 million investment for mental health emergency care after an ABC report exposed concerns from a clinical nurse whistleblower.
The state MP for Ipswich West has announced he has been diagnosed with microvascular ischemic disease and will step down at the October election.
David Crisafulli insists he won't budge on his opposition to nuclear power — a position that's not sitting well with some of his federal colleagues.
Queensland's premier oversaw a policy shift on youth crime this week in the name of community safety but critics say it's really about political survival, writes Rachel Riga.