QLD News

EmergencySerious injuries after motorbike crash

A motorbike rider has suffered serious head and chest injuries after a crash on private property south of Brisbane.

Shiloh Payne

EXCLUSIVEColt incest kids ‘didn’t know what a toilet was’: Foster mum

A foster carer who took in children rescued from a notorious NSW family accused of incest has tearfully said one six-year-old girl “didn’t know what the toilet was. She did not know what a toothbrush was.”

Lucy Hughes Jones

Mass gatheringCharges follow massive beach party with DJ, stage

Queensland Police are investigating whether a crowd of up to 300 people at a beach party breached health directives in place to stop the spread of coronavirus. Several other charges have already been laid following the mass gathering.

Kate Kyriacou

Health‘200-300 calls a day’: How contact tracers work

We barely knew of their existence six months ago, now contact tracers have become an essential part of Queensland’s fight against coronavirus. This is what their work is like.

Jane Armitstead

JailPrison guard tested after inmate’s bite

A correctional officer has been forced to undergo tests have being bitten by a prisoner.

Shiloh Payne

Drinking spotsThe Betoota is back in business

Three years ago a smash repairer from Logan took a punt and bought an isolated pub way out in Betoota. Now, he’s living the dream.

Michael Madigan

Latest newsAussie boy among victims as Lebanon erupts in protest

The family of Isaac Oehlers has told of their heartbreak after the two-year-old Australian was named as a victim of the Beirut blast amid violent anti-government protests.

Tiffany Bakker, Nathan Vass, Georgia Clark, Jade Gailberger, Stephen Drill, Clare Armstrong, Natalie O'Brien

FatalMan dies in hospital after pole crash

A young man has died in hospital a day after suffering critical injuries in a crash in which his car hit a light post.

Shiloh Payne

HEALTHLittle Ava’s heartbreaking bucket list

Four-year-old Ava Pearce tells everyone she wants to be a mummy when she grows up. Tragically the little dynamo with the infectious smile is unlikely to see adulthood.

Jackie Sinnerton

AwardsHunt on for state’s best schoolboy league player

As Queensland’s premier schoolboy rugby league competitions continue to heat up, organisers have created two new Dally M-style awards.

SportQueensland closer to snatching AFL grand final

The Gabba is firming as the venue for this year’s AFL grand final, with negotiations set to begin within weeks. It will the be the first time the event is held outside Victoria in its history - but that won’t be the only reason a Brisbane final will make history.

SHANNON DEERY

TrafficStory Bridge traffic builds after crash

Lanes are blocked following four-vehicle crash on the Story Bridge this morning.

Shiloh Payne

EmploymentInside troubled Cert 3 training courses

A scheme where agencies send Queensland jobseekers desperate for work into state-funded training is raking in tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, despite a promised ‘clamp down’. The Sunday Mail has gone inside one of the courses. This is what we found.

Kelmeny Fraser

Service cutsBizarre advice as customer service counters close

Agriculture and Fisheries staff working at customer service counters have been told to hide from customers as the majority are shut down, leaving rural Queenslanders without face-to-face contact.

Kelmeny Fraser

Courts‘I’ve been through hell’: Sex victim’s hotel message

A woman who was indecently assaulted by an elderly caretaker after she was encouraged by her employer to stay in a unit with the man has this message for young employees.

Kay Dibben

RevealedKarl is as unpopular as ever, survey claims

Today show host Karl Stefanovic has made his way back to breakfast television — but it seems like viewers are not happy about it after a rival network commissioned a survey to test his popularity — and the results were flattering. READ CHANNEL 9’S RESPONSE

Briana Domjen

Insider’s tipsAndrew Winter’s top 10 selling secrets

In a real estate career spanning three decades, Andrew Winter has seen it all when it comes to selling property. No matter what type of home you’re selling, or where, these expert insights will help.

Andrew Winter

Exclusive investigationQueenslanders pay more for medicines because of their postcode

Queenslanders are paying nearly four times more for vital medicines just because of their home address. See the list of drugs and suburbs where patients are facing higher prices.

Sue Dunlevy

Latest newsGhislaine said Paris was ‘perfect’ for Epstein

Accused sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly wanted to “recruit” socialite Paris Hilton for her billionaire paedophile partner, Jeffrey Epstein.

Nathan Vass and Tiffany Bakker in New York

Saved by MichelleHow to get winning bid in online auctions

Whether it’s furniture, computers, homewares or jewellery, these are the tips and tricks to buying items under the hammer online – and it’s more involved than you might think.

Michelle Collins

AgendaDesert Alcatraz: What life will be like inside Bob’s boot camp

If Katter’s Australian Party win the balance of power in the upcoming state election it’s here that juvenile criminals will find themselves doing time, writes Michael Madigan.

Michael Madigan

Letters‘Petty, insane’: Customers react to legal threats

A Sunshine Coast clothing company has allegedly used customer details from online orders to issue legal threats, including one to a woman with terminal cancer.

Alexandria Utting

Booze babiesWhat really happens to bubs when mums drink in pregnancy

A horrifying warning has been issued that COVID-19 lockdowns could create a “baby boom’’ of brain-damaged children as pregnant women hit the bottle to combat stress. This is what really happens to children born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

NATASHA BITA

halalConvicted killer’s $20k claim over jail toaster

A man who was jailed in 2000 for murdering his newborn daughter, released on parole in 2017 and later deported is still pursuing a $20,000 claim against the State Government over his use of a prison toaster.

Kay Dibben