Thomas Chamberlin

Behind the unimaginative brick facade of the Townsville police headquarters, Steve Gollschewski took a quick call on his mobile as he prepared to attend the latest academy graduation. The number was unfamiliar. The voice was not.

A woman who died on a popular Brisbane bikeway might have been trying to get a dropped water bottle when she fell and was fatally injured, police have revealed, as tributes have been left at the scene.

Domestic violence offenders would be forced to share their device passwords and have their movements tightly controlled, under sweeping changes proposed by the Queensland Police Union.

The wife of a police officer who says he died from pancreatic cancer after exposure to carcinogenic toxic mould at a Queensland station is calling for an inquest into his death and national legislation to identify and remove mould and mycotoxins in workplaces.

Mystery surrounds the grisly discovery of a tightly-wrapped body that was partially buried and covered in clothing and bedding under a unit complex in Alderley in Brisbane’s north.