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Police have intercepted dozens of people on their way to an illegal protest in Brisbane’s CBD and handcuffed others not wearing masks in a crackdown.

Police have intercepted dozens of people on their way to an illegal protest in Brisbane’s CBD and handcuffed others not wearing masks in a crackdown.

When former state LNP cabinet minister Mark McArdle and Queensland senator Paul Scarr hand down their highly anticipated review into the LNP's loss at the 2020 election in April next year, they must cast aside any factional allegiances or loyalties and bell the cat on a political party that is deeply divided and has lost its way. If they don't, the LNP will lose the 2024 election. This post-mortem must be brutal, honest and go for the jugular. McArdle and Scarr owe it to the members and senior business leaders who backed the LNP at the last election to provide a transparent and warts-and-a...

Premium Content Subscriber only CENTRAL Queensland cattle producers have been warned to keep an eye out for signs of dog activity and monitor the behaviour of livestock following recent sightings of packs of wild dogs along the coast. According to AgForce Cattle Board president Will Wilson, wild dogs were affecting the cattle industry right across Queensland in varying degrees through impacts such as mortality, as well as harassment and bites. Mr Wilson said a recent case in Rockhampton saw a pack of seven wild dogs kill two weaner bulls, a cow, and a large calf. “When pack size is large li...

Kshama Ranawana Environmentalists, Conservationists and the political opposition are strenuously objecting to the decision by the government to hand over the management of “Other State Forests (OSF)” to Divisional/Districts Secretaries alleging the move would be disastrous for the forest cover and biodiversity in the country. It was in July this year that the Cabinet first mooted the idea of handing the management of these lands earlier referred to as “State Residual Forests” by abolishing circular 05/2001 which had transferred the management of these lands from the Divisional/Distri...