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More wet weather ahead for Queensland
BOM senior meteorologist Steve Hadley speaking on the weather outlook for this wet season.
Photo shows A meteorologist wearing glasses, speaking in front of a weather map.Has Video Duration: 28 seconds.Redflow was the great hope of Australian manufacturing. Its collapse left customers with broken batteries
Redflow had political backing and a soaring ambition to sell energy storage to the world, but its $10,000 batteries regularly failed within months of installation leaving customers out of pocket.
Photo shows Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Redflow CEO Tim Harris.Family targeted after helping expose sex predator in aged care facility
A family says they became a target of false criminal allegations as payback for helping expose a sex abuse scandal in a Queensland government aged care home.
Photo shows Aged Care Abuse: The darkeened entry way to a facility.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds.Teen acquitted of murder of Emma Lovell to be released from detention
A teenager acquitted of the murder of south-east Queensland woman Emma Lovell will be released from detention after being sentenced for lesser offences.
Photo shows Teen walks free: Screengrab of black and white CCTV of a person with their face blurred about to enter a gate.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds.CCTV footage shows the pair entering the Lovell house
Video footage played to the court shows two teenagers entering the North Lakes home where Emma Lovell was living.
Photo shows A CCTV snippet that shows two teens entering a home, their faces are blurred.Has Video Duration: 51 seconds.Judge throws out Queensland energy class action
The Federal Court has found the conduct of Stanwell and CS Energy was legitimate "profit maximisation behaviour".
Photo shows High tension power lines on steel towers in a paddock at Oxley Creek Common at Rocklea on Brisbane's southside.Child restraint laws to be reviewed as experts warn Australia lags behind other countries
One in four of the 123 children who died in road crashes between 2004 and 2023 weren't restrained at all — even by an adult seatbelt.
Photo shows a woman fastens a young child into a car seatExperts call for children to be in correct car seats amid new road deaths data
A new data has found a third of children killed on Queensland roads were not restrained properly in their car seats.
Photo shows Children road deaths data: A car with its bonnet brutally smashed in and another car with damage to its side.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds.What are the rules for older Australian drivers?
Driving in later life can bring its own challenges, and while rules around older road users vary widely across the country, options for navigating those challenges include licence assessments and conversations around so-called "driving retirement".
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Photo shows A graphic of a speed limit for a 90kph zone.The '3 billion-piece puzzle' researchers hope will help save koalas from extinction
Researchers from the University of Sydney undertook the task in the wake of the Black Summer bushfires, when they found there was a lack of data to be able to quantify the loss to the koala population.
Photo shows A close up of a koala eating leaves.Largest cocaine seizure in Australian history
The 2.3-tonne cocaine haul was intercepted off the Queensland coast and is believed to be worth an estimated $760 million.
Photo shows Record cocaine seizure: Blocks wrapped in brown paper, bundled in plastic sheeting with AFP tape around it.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes .Australia sweats through hottest spring on record as temperatures soar 2.5C above pre-industrial levels
Another heatwave is predicted across Australia this week, as the weather bureau confirms the nation just sizzled through its hottest spring on record.
Photo shows a kayaker on the water at dawn at Toronto Lake Macquarie NSWCheap Tuesdays are a 'thing of the past' but shopping around can help motorists save at the petrol pump
When it's time to fill up with petrol, paying extra at the pump can be financially costly. We've done the legwork for you and dispelled the myths about what controls prices and how they're determined.
Photo shows Three different petrol station signs with prices on the boardYoung mothers continue to report high rates of discrimination
Experts say stigma can prevent people accessing basic needs like housing as young mothers in Australia continue to report high rates of discrimination.
Photo shows Young Mums Discriminated: A woman kisses the cheek of a toddler while holding her.Has Video Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds.Wet weather in south-east Queensland
Parts of the state saw heavy rainfall overnight, with Bundamba Creek in North Booval swelling in size and some roads in Boonah cut by flash flooding.
Photo shows An overflowing creek encroaching on a nearby park.Has Video Duration: 21 seconds.Catching sharks for science in the Brisbane river
Local fishermen team up with scientists to catch and tag bull sharks in the Brisbane river, contributing to research about the apex predators.
Photo shows Brisbane River bull sharks: Man holds shark on banks of Brisbane river.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds.Owners of Crocodile Dundee pub seek for a new buyer
Outback Crocodile Dundee pub in Walkabout Creek owners are looking for a buyer as they call time after running it for just over a decade.
Photo shows Looking for a new owner: A man an a woman – both with grey hair – look at each other with affectionate smiles.Has Video Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds.Police vision of Ashley Paul Griffith being arrested
Daycare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty to abusing multiple children.
Photo shows A man being arrested by police.Has Video Duration: 14 seconds.Eastern Australia faces multi-day thunderstorm outbreak with flash flooding, hail and damaging winds
A cloudband extending 4,000 kilometres from the Top End to Tasmania will produce intense downpours during the last days of spring – threatening to bring areas of flash and river flooding to multiple states and territories, with other capital cities in the firing line.
Photo shows Storm clouds and rain over suburbs.CFMEU protests Queensland government's suspension of tradie conditions
Thousands of CFMEU workers have rallied across Brisbane's CBD protesting the Queensland government's suspension of conditions for construction workers.
Photo shows Brisbane Protest: Protesters march down a street holding CFMEU banners.Has Video Duration: 2 minutes 1 second.