Mikaela Mulveney

Queenslanders working for government-owned corporations are striking wage deals more than 50 per cent higher than the state’s frontline workforce.

Complaints against suspected predators should be in a national database accessible to child protection authorities to help expose abusers hiding in plain sight, a report has found.

A Chelmer couple have been left in a nightmare limbo after sinking more than $140,000 to repair their flood-ravaged home but seeing close to zero progress in more than a year.

Queensland’s Night Life Economy Commissioner and legendary Powderfinger bassist John “J.C.” Collins has flagged concerns cowboy cabbies flouting laws could deter people from going out in Brisbane.

The union representing hundreds of frontline child safety officers say the Department of Child Safety was warned multiple times throughout the year surrounding issues with the Unify IT system.

Vulnerable children are being taken from their families and placed into state care by child safety officers who are flouting the law, an inquiry has heard.

Queensland’s worst-affected patients are waiting more than eight hours on ambulance stretchers to get into the state’s hospitals, new figures have ­revealed.

Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm has defended her ill-timed safari trip during a natural disaster in her electorate, saying she “needed a holiday”.

The state government has been slammed for its lack of transparency after not making the advice from an expert legal panel recommending changes to the Adult Crime, Adult Time laws public as they had promised.

More than a dozen public servants who help represent the state in child protection cases have been axed – just as the number of vulnerable kids entering the system continues to rise and the government faces mounting pressure to overhaul it.