Court documents allege Adani discreetly payed thousands of dollars to recruit people to vote on a crucial mining deal with traditional owners, including Aboriginal people with no link to its Queensland mine site.
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Commuters caught out by expiring Go Cards
The original batch of south-east Queensland Go Cards are reaching their expiry date.
ABC Queensland election computer shows Labor has 47 seats, but no official result yet
It could be next week before an official state election result is declared, the Electoral Commission of Queensland says, as the ABC’s election computer shows Labor has secured the 47 seats it needs for a majority.
Liquidators move to seize financial records from Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel
Liquidators investigating the collapse of Queensland Nickel will be able to enter the company’s offices and seize financial documents if they are not handed over by next Wednesday.
Gold Coast nurse allegedly abducted, locked in car boot
A police manhunt is underway after the alleged robbery and abduction of a male nurse on Queensland’s Gold Coast this morning.
Type 1 online community proves you're never alone with diabetes
Two Queensland men are pushing for greater awareness of adults with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) after strangers on a Facebook page teamed up to help a newly-diagnosed diabetic who tried to take his own life.
Here's what happens if Labor falls short in the Queensland election
Annastacia Palaszczuk is just one seat shy of a majority government, but the final result in a handful of seats is still too close to call six days on from the election.
Adani's final legal hurdle: Indigenous group is dispute over compensation
Traditional owners would get just 0.2 per cent of Adani’s earnings from the mine, less than half the industry average, new analysis finds, as a fractious dispute between the Indigenous group poses a final legal hurdle for the project.
Former Manus Island security guard fighting PTSD claim rejection
Former Manus Island detention centre guard Ricky Morse faces an uphill battle as he challenges Wilson Security’s rejection of his PTSD insurance claim.
$400m effort to exterminate fire ants 'undermined by rainfall, manure'
Australia’s most expensive pest eradication program uses bait that does not work in wet weather, and aerial sensing that can mistake cow pats for ant nests, sources involved with the effort say.