Queensland University Of Technology

Sexting - the misunderstood 'crime'

Sexting

Mandy Thoo "It's a crime. It's child pornography. It's shameful. It will ruin your life."

Heritage watchdog gets new members

Heritage Hotel, Rockhampton.

Tony Moore Queensland's Heritage Council has four new members in what Environment Minister Andrew Powell describes as a "revitalisation" of Queensland's 11-person heritage watchdog.

The wearying wait for inner-city childcare

Some Brisbane childcare centres have waitlists of hundreds of children.

Clarissa Keil Scoring a prized childcare place at an inner-city centre is anything but child's play.

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Women their own worst enemy: O'Dwyer

shoes stilettos

Nathan Paull The Liberal National Party's former state secretary says women need to change their attitudes if they want to be taken seriously in politics.

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Student nest egg to cover first uni year

Education funding

Daniel Hurst The Bligh government's proposed new education endowment funds would typically run out after the first year of a standard university course.

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Queensland won't cash in on Indian uranium trade

Uranium found during police raid.

Queensland premier Anna Bligh has named the members of a new Queensland/India business council on the same day she has ruled out supplying uranium to the subcontintent.

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Queensland's missing 417,000 people

missing vote

Tony Moore More than one in 10 adult Queenslanders are not on the electoral roll to vote in tomorrow's state election.

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Robots at the bottom of the sea

Ryan Smith from Queensland University of Technology hopes to develop an underwater robot that can think for itself.

Amy Remeikis The problem with underwater sampling is that what is being sampled is underwater.

Queensland LNP eyes federal clean-sweep

Daniel Hurst The Liberal National Party is aiming to win every lower house seat in Queensland at the next federal election, identifying all non-LNP electorates as targets.

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Peculiar, provocative and otherworldly at Old Government House

Qld

Katherine Feeney Anyone who's ever been outraged by government spending should spare a thought for the residents of old Brisbane.

Sink-hole continues to cause traffic chaos

Sink hole.

Marissa Calligeros A sink-hole in Brisbane’s inner-city will be temporarily patched today in time for this afternoon’s peak hour.

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Police still unsure if remains in barrel are human

Queensland Police.

Tony Moore and Courtney Trenwith Police forensic officers are yet to determine whether remains found in a 44-gallon drum north of Brisbane on the weekend are human.

Broken tow rope 'like slingshot', killing boy in back seat

Addison Yates

Marissa Calligeros Addison Yates was sitting in the back seat of a four-wheel-drive bogged in bushland mud when the hook of the tow rope being used to pull them free came loose, catapulting through the car's back...