BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Education and the Arts The Honourable John-Paul Langbroek Minister for Women and Women's Economic Security, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Minister for Multiculturalism The Honourable Fiona Simpson Funding awarded for First Nations research projects * Two researchers at leading Queensland universities will share $167,000 in fundi...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note:Audio grabs and vision and photos of syndicate members available via Hightail A Chatswood woman who washed $3.8 million for a Vietnamese money laundering syndicate has become the seventh and final person sentenced under Operation Avarus-Galetta. The woman, 26, was sentenced on 28 March, 2025, by the Downing Centre District Court to 21 months' imprisonment, to be released after seven months on...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note:Vision available via Hightail A Byford man is expected to appear before Perth Magistrates Court today (7 April, 2025) charged with disorderly behaviour at Perth Airport. The AFP responded to a request for assistance inside a domestic terminal last month (24 March, 2025). The AFP will allege the man, 37, was intoxicated as he boarded a flight bound for Melbourne. When airline staff asked the ...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force Editor's note: Images available via Hightail. A New South Wales woman has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment by the Victorian County Court following her third conviction for heroin importation. The Cabramatta woman, 75, who had twice previously been convicted of the same offence in NSW, will serve a non-parole peri...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Images, footage and audio grabs available via Hightail When criminals embedded meth in 32 tonnes of paraffin wax, they thought they'd come up with a foolproof way to get the drugs into Australia. However, they couldn't have been more wrong. Unfortunately for them, the shipment was already in the crosshairs of the AFP and Malaysian authorities, who had been working the long game under a new ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development The Honourable Dale Last New rail facility to support hundreds of jobs on the Gold Coast * Crisafulli Government supports hundreds of jobs on the Gold Coast as it delivers major contract to build rail maintenance facility. * New hub will help service expanded fleet of trains being ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development The Honourable Dale Last Assistant Minister for Tourism, Early Learning, Creative Industries and Far North Queensland Ms Bree James Expressions of Interest open for the revival of Double Island * The Crisafulli Government seeks Expressions of Interest for Double I...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation The Honourable Andrew Powell More than $6 million for Bunya Mountains National Park upgrades * The Crisafulli Government injects more than $6 million worth of upgrades for the Bunya Mountains National Park. * Improvements will include accessible walking trails and a new visitor information building. * The ecotourism ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth The Honourable Sam O'Connor Social housing construction boom to add 5,000 homes across Queensland * 5,000 social and affordable homes have been contracted or under construction under the new Crisafulli Government. * Queensland's total social and affordable housing stock to grow 6 per cent from the boost. * Crisafulli Government accelera...
Belconnen, ACT, April 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 48-year-old man who told police he had consumed two bottles of wine prior to driving from Jerrabomberra to Gungahlin has lost his licence for 90 days. About 6pm last Friday (4 April 2025), officers from Gungahlin Police Station were conducting patrols when they came across a collision between a blue Toyota Hilux and green Suzuki Jimny on Anthony Rolfe Avenue. No one was injured as a result of the collision, but poli...