Costello conflict claim

Mark Hawthorne, Amy Remeikis A complaint about former federal treasurer Peter Costello lodged with Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission highlights potential conflicts of interest between his job overseeing the future of...

Butt out of education, Queensland tells PM

Daniel Hurst and Amy Remeikis Queensland has told Julia Gillard to “butt out of education” while revealing it would follow Victoria in hatching its own school funding reform plan.

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Palmer's gigantic ambitions may trigger legal wrangles

Amy Remeikis HE OWNS a dinosaur. Now he is going after an adjective.

Deja vu for Ipswich families as evacuations begin all over again

Amy Remeikis Ipswich residents are packing up again just after they finished rebuilding from the 2011 floods.

HIV and sexual disease rates in young climbing, specialist says

Amy Remeikis SEXUALLY transmitted infection rates for diseases such as chlamydia and gonorrhea continue to rise across Queensland, says Andrew Redmond, a staff specialist in infectious diseases at the Royal...

Doing 52 jobs in one year works for young adventurer

Amy Remeikis Paul Seymour was trying to explain to the farmer why he had packed up and sought to work a different job each week for 52 weeks with no more direction than ''an inkling there was more out there''.

When finding a job means finding yourself

Amy Remeikis In 2012, Paul Seymour Paul became the ‘one week job guy’ working a different job, every week, for each week of the year, donating his wages to charity. It helped.

Prime Minister to make guest appearance at Woodford

Amy Remeikis JULIA GILLARD is expected to become a last-minute headliner of the Woodford Folk Festival on Sunday.

Daniel laid to rest with presents he never got to open

Marissa Calligeros, Amy Remeikis NINE years after Daniel Morcombe left his Sunshine Coast home to go Christmas shopping, he was laid to rest on Friday by his parents Denise and Bruce, his older brother Dean and his twin Bradley.

West Papua 'rebel' held

Amy Remeikis and Chad Van Estrop Gerard Michael Little planned to 'engage in violent conflict against the Indonesian government' in West Papua, a Brisbane court has been told.

'We have a lot of very traumatised kids': death casts a pall on schoolies

Marissa Calligeros and Amy Remeikis Police have identified the schoolie who fell from a Gold Coast high-rise balcony as 17-year-old Isabelle Colman from The Gap in Brisbane's west.

Schoolies balcony fall victim identified as Brisbane girl Isabelle Colman

Marissa Calligeros and Amy Remeikis Police have identified the schoolie who fell from a Gold Coast high-rise balcony as 17-year-old Isabelle Colman from The Gap in Brisbane's west.

Working to stop a repeat of every parent's nightmare

Amy Remeikis Throughout Queensland, the Morcombe name is synonymous with heartbreak and tragedy; but also strength, bravery and commitment.

Abused, a drug addict and now a 'last chance'

Amy Remeikis The sorry story of a drug addicted woman, aged 20, and her desperation to rehabilitate herself, is told to the Brisbane District Court.

Host Clive leads from the bow

Amy Remeikis Wearing a top hat and tails, with his grandfather's Boer War medal pinned to his chest, Clive Palmer welcomed guests aboard the Titanic.

Party hopes selection sounds death knell for Fisher's ghosts

Amy Remeikis Liberal National Party branch members for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fisher, hope today's preselection will bring an end to the "sometimes woeful" attention that has surrounded the division in recent...

Granny says child stealing a 'beat up'

Rory Callinan, Amy Remeikis The Italian father involved in an international custody battle over his four daughters has lodged an official complaint of child stealing against the girl's Australian great-grandmother.

Man found guilty of triple murder after four-day deliberation

Amy Remeikis, Bridie Jabour Massimo ''Max'' Sica has been found guilty of the murders of his ex-girlfriend Neelma Singh and her two younger siblings, Kunal and Sidhi, in their Brisbane home in 2003.

Custody battle: PM urged to help kids on the run

Amy Remeikis The Prime Minister has been urged to intervene after the Family Court ordered four children to board a plane by the end of today to return to the homeland of their father, an Italian citizen.