BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 11:34 AM Minister for Sport and Racing and Minister for the Olympic and Paralympic Games The Honourable Tim Mander Queensland Academy of Sport on fast track to become a Statutory Body * The Crisafulli Government will introduce legislation to transition the Queensland Academy of Sport to a Statutory Body on 1 July * Move will provide greater independence and position the Qu...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 12:47 PM JOINT STATEMENT Premier and Minister for Veterans The Honourable David Crisafulli Minister for Local Government and Water and Minister for Fire, Disaster Recovery and Volunteers The Honourable Ann Leahy JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT:State Recovery Coordinator appointed to lead flood recovery in the north * The Crisafulli Government has appointed Andrew Cripps as State...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 03:23 PM JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Primary Industries The Honourable Tony Perrett Minister for Women and Women's Economic Security, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Minister for Multiculturalism The Honourable Fiona Simpson Queensland Rural Women's Award finalists announced * Three finalists for the Queensland Rural Women's Award ann...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Published Yesterday at 01:54 PM Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation The Honourable Andrew Powell Mackay and Whitsunday operators havetheir say on 20-year tourism master plan * Tourism operators and stakeholders in Mackay and the Whitsundays have contributed to the development of a new 20-year tourism plan to help shape the industry's future. * Destina...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are seeking urgent public assistance to help locate a 71-year-old man missing from the Parkinson since February 1. Shalindra Singh was last seen at his home address in Parkinson at about 7pm on February 1, but has not been seen or heard from since. Police hold concerns for his welfare due to existing health conditions which may present as confusion. Shalindra, is described as Indian in appea...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Tablelands Police are trying to locate the owners of the pictured items that have been handed into police. The green pushbike was located on Wednesday December 4 at about 10am in bushland on Minna Street Herberton. Please contact Herberton Police on 4096 2568 and reference QP2402082064 to claim if it belongs to you. The gold ring was located at Gallery 5 on Herberton Street Atherton on Monday Decemb...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have charged a 26-year-old Gulliver man with murder following the death of a 21-year-old Vincent man at Woodstock in December last year. Around 8.45am on Saturday December 14, a passer-by found the 21-year-old man's body on the backseat of his vehicle on Webb Road. Following investigations by the Townsville Criminal Investigation Branch and the Homicide Investigation Unit, the Gulliver man wa...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are investigating a series of property crime offences linked to a group of armed offenders in Logan and South Brisbane districts yesterday, February 11. Initial information indicate overnight between 10pm and 5:30am, a break in has occurred at a Melaleuca Place property at Carindale in Brisbane's south, where a white Hyundai Tucson and grey Lexus 300 were stolen. It is understood the vehicles...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are appealing for information following a ram raid of a store in Gracemere early this morning, February 12. Around 5am, a stolen vehicle deliberately rammed through the front of a shop within a shopping centre on McLaughlin Street in Gracemere. The offenders were disrupted by police and fled the scene a short time later in the stolen vehicle. There was extensive damage caused to the shopping...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery with violence in Rockhampton on February 11. Around 7.45am on February 11, two unknown people have approached a vehicle stopped at red light on the intersection of Norman Road and Farm Street in Normal Gardens and attempted to pull the driver from the vehicle. The driver of the red dual cab Holden Colorado was released and drove awa...