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Police have charged a Brisbane couple with the murder of a newborn baby found in a washing machine earlier this year.

Questions are being raised about the Queensland Government's decision not to renew funding to a charity that helps female prisoners break the cycle of crime and poverty.

The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) says workers at BHP Billiton's coking coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin will strike again from next Thursday.

Champion veteran woodchopper Vic Summers has finished second in the double saw competition at the Gympie show.

A truck believed to be carrying asbestos sheeting has hit a bridge at Corinda in Brisbane's south-west, spilling its load and causing traffic chaos.

After the demise of his former club Gold Coast, Michael Thwaite has found a new A-League home at Perth on a two-year deal.

The Family Court in Brisbane has excluded the media from its proceedings over an international custody dispute involving four Italian-Australian girls.

Wallabies flanker Scott Higginbotham has signed a two-year deal with the Melbourne Rebels.

Daniel Anderson says the Blues need to make the most of an athletic forward pack to defeat Queensland.

Queensland coach Mal Meninga cancelled a scheduled training run on Friday to keep his Origin players fresh and relaxed before game one.

Electoral officials have started counting the votes on a proposed enterprise agreement for workers at BMA's coal mines in central Queensland.

Western Queensland MP Vaughan Johnson has asked the State Government to investigate why road train drivers have been fined for what he says are minor breaches over bullbars.

A Cape York Aboriginal organisation says the rights of traditional owners have been upheld by a Supreme Court decision in Cairns in far north Queensland.

The Federal Court has heard Speaker Peter Slipper is deeply distressed over sexual allegations made by former adviser James Ashby.

Justice Stephen Rares has started hearing the civil case that political adviser James Ashby lodged against Mr Slipper and the Commonwealth.

Mr Ashby alleges Mr Slipper only hired him in order to pursue a sexual relationship.

Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Liberal National Party (LNP) is more interested in gloating than governing.

The owner of Queensland's two largest casinos says its cutting more than 60 jobs at its major properties in the state's south-east.

Two men linked to an outlaw motorcycle gang have been charged over a violent attack in Brisbane last month.

The removal of an Aboriginal tent embassy from Brisbane's Musgrave Park on Wednesday was met with defiance, anger, tears and frustration.

A District Court judge has sentenced a man to 10 months in jail over a fatal road accident on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Jailed former Queensland government minister Gordon Nuttall has failed to pay his fine for contempt of Parliament.