The sunshine state is heading to the polls on 26 October. Can Labor cling to power or will there be an LNP landslide?
Queenslanders will go to the polls on 26 October. Here are five things you should know.
Continue reading...Damning report finds state’s blue card screening system creates unnecessary barriers to placing children with their families
Queensland’s family and child commissioner has called for blue card requirements to be scrapped for First Nations kinship carers after a report found the system relies on “irrelevant information, overpolicing and subjective assessments”.
Since 2001, Queenslanders who work around children have needed to obtain a blue card, with offences including drug trafficking, murder and child abuse disqualifying a person from obtaining one. But a report by the Queensland Family & Child Commission (QFCC) found blue cards create additional barriers to placing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with their families.
Continue reading...Exclusive: senator claimed expenses for two trips to Babinda in 2018, where his brother owns a hotel
Fraser Anning claimed a taxpayer-funded accommodation and meals allowance for staying at his brother’s hotel in the regional town of Babinda.
The independent senator’s use of taxpayer funds for travel has been under scrutiny since he announced he would bill the public to travel from Queensland to a far-right rally in St Kilda on Saturday.
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