Category: Townsville, Australia

Boy, 12, allegedly went on groping spree

Boy, 12, 'forces woman, 23, to touch his genitals before pushing a 13-year-old girl into bushes and groping her' A boy, 12, has allegedly forced a woman to touch his penis and then pushed a 13-year-old girl into bushes in broad daylight. Police will allege the boy grabbed the 23-year-old woman's arm and forced her to grab his penis on Saturday at Riverway, Queensland, Townsville Bulletin reported.

Cabinet minister Matt Canavan accuses ABC of publishing ‘fake news’ in bizarre Adani interview

A Turnbull government minister has accused the ABC of running "fake news" in its coverage of the Adani coal mine and treating regional Queensland like "flyover country". In a bizarre interview with the broadcaster's AM radio program on Thursday morning, Resources and Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan said the ABC's coverage of an Indian finance ministry probe into the Adani group was "nothing but fake news".