Youth

If the recent Local Government election results have shown us anything, it’s that Queenslanders want change from the status quo, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. “The LNP seem to think they’re a shoo-in, but as the true Opposition in North Queensland we are calling them out as being a void of policy,” Mr Katter said. Mr Katter said he was pleased the KAP youth crime policy, which he had advocated for seven years, is resonating well with the wider community, and was now calling on the State LNP to commit to the North-Queensland born idea of Relocation Sentencing.

Minister for Education Blair Boyer says he is keen to discuss the district’s public education system with Member of Mackillop Nick McBride. In an interview ... Mr McBride questioned if the district’s public education system was meeting the needs of our children.

Is the district’s public education system meeting the needs of our children? That’s the question a local MP is asking as he pleads with education stakeholders to look into the future of the district’s public schooling system. Member for Mackillop Nick McBride says our public education system needs to keep pace and stay relevant.

Police have charged 740 people with around 1,323 offences across the Darling Downs district since Operation Whiskey Unison began in March last year. The high visibility policing operation focuses on preventing, disrupting, and investigating youth crime through community engagement and patrols at intelligence-driven hotspot locations.

In a battle of supersized proportions, Toowoomba’s Downlands College smashed the longstanding Ekka record by over 100 kilograms to take out top honours at the Royal Queensland Show’s iconic Giant Pumpkin Competition at the Brisbane Showgrounds on Saturday. The secondary school students also set a Queensland record with its ginormous 368.5-kilogram entry which beat the Ekka record for heaviest pumpkin of 261.5kg set back in 2015.