As the clock ticks down to the deadline for e-bike owners to get a sticker proving their ride is legal, a study reveals half of e-mobility devices in Queensland are non-compliant.

As the clock ticks down to the deadline for e-bike owners to get a sticker proving their ride is legal, a study reveals half of e-mobility devices in Queensland are non-compliant.

Michael O’Rourke, who joined Stanwell in 1998, has departed after what was described as the “right time for a leadership transition” amid a broader sector overhaul.

Michael O’Rourke, who joined Stanwell in 1998, has departed after what was described as the “right time for a leadership transition” amid a broader sector overhaul.

Distressed midwives, nurses and hospital staff asked for the restraints to be removed so the mother could visit her baby, Sisters Inside said, but prison officers refused.

Distressed midwives, nurses and hospital staff asked for the restraints to be removed so the mother could visit her baby, Sisters Inside said, but prison officers refused.

The Rick Shores, Southside and Central owner discusses Brisbane’s most underrated season and how he sees the city’s dining habits shifting.

The Rick Shores, Southside and Central owner discusses Brisbane’s most underrated season and how he sees the city’s dining habits shifting.

Coroner says she’s considering adopting recommendations from Victoria’s cults inquiry as investigation into Elizabeth Struh’s death continues

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The coroner investigating the death of Elizabeth Struhs is considering adopting recommendations from Victoria’s cults inquiry, warning a “lack of curiosity” about her family’s religious beliefs was a “missed opportunity”.

Elizabeth, an eight-year-old, died on 7 January 2022 of diabetic ketoacidosis after her father ceased providing insulin to treat type 1 diabetes.

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Ajay Malik, 37, remains in hospital after two dogs mauled him in a Chermside park.

With a leadership election looming, a decision by the executive to approve funds to help an officer accused of punching and stalking his partner has boiled over.

The government says fewer children are getting hurt in e-scooter crashes.

Dearth of bananas coincides with poor apple harvest and lack of summer stone fruit

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A shortage of Australia’s most popular fruit, bananas, has hit supermarket shelves at a tricky time for lunchboxes, right as apple season winds down after tough growing conditions and summer stone fruit is yet to arrive en masse.

Cool weather in key Queensland growing regions has severely slowed banana production, leaving major supermarkets Coles, Woolworths and Aldi with sparse displays or very green stock.

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This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus tries to find an answer to growing questions about the CFMEU inquiry, finds Stuart Wood’s lunch eaten, farewells a governor, and more.

Queensland correctional services officer did not have access to details of Kerrie Struhs’ past offending which included child neglect

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Elizabeth Struhs’ mother, Kerrie, was assessed by correctional services as being of no immediate risk to others by an officer who had no access to her offending history, three weeks before she and others caused her eight-year-old daughter to die, a Brisbane inquest has heard.

Kerrie Struhs was sentenced to five months’ jail for child neglect after failing to take Elizabeth to hospital to treat her type 1 diabetes in 2019. Coroner Ainslie Kirkegaard has previously heard that Elizabeth was so unwell when she presented at hospital that she was nearly dead, and was in a coma.

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Grill’d will convert the former EB Games site on Albert Street into a 153-seat restaurant, escalating the strip’s fast-food battle.

The premier kicks off a week of public engagements by lambasting Canberra during a business breakfast.

A council worker discovered a man’s decomposing body in the Chermside park at the weekend.

Birth happens days before Labor and Coalition block bill to ban ‘barbaric practice’ of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth

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An incarcerated Indigenous woman was shackled to a hospital bed in Queensland while she was in labour last weekend, an advocacy group has said.

The birth happened just days before Labor and the Coalition blocked a bill to ban the “barbaric practice” of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth.

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Eight-year-old Queensland girl died in 2022 after being denied insulin by her religious parents

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Elizabeth Struhs’ child protection case was not “prioritised” or worked intensively because the staff member assigned to her case was “very busy”, a coroner has heard.

The Queensland coroner’s court also heard the case worker may have been “overly influenced” by the presentation of Struhs’ “upper class home”, putting cases believed to involve a more immediate risk ahead of Elizabeth’s.

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