The man spearheading a multi-million-dollar wave pool on Queensland's Sunshine Coast says he will "keep cracking on" after losing a legal challenge to a rival developer.
The grief-stricken father of Sunshine Coast car crash victim Ryan Kimball expresses his disappointment after the sentencing of a 17-year-old driver, saying laws around juvenile crime are "too light".
While Dean Carelse was in an Australian jail awaiting his fate for grooming young children, he wrote to his family back home in Gqeberha, apologising for what he had put them through.
Prisoners Legal Service estimates the backlog comes at a monthly cost of $3.9 million to the Queensland taxpayer. Some prisoners are waiting in jail for more than a year after their parole eligibility date has passed.