Zach Hope
Brisbane Times
Australia
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Court hears of bid to publicly name high-profile man charged with rape
The man, who cannot be named under Queensland law, did not appear in person in Toowoomba Magistrates Court. → Read More
Police officer charged with computer hacking
The allegations against the constable made for the fifth report since Tuesday about serving Queensland police officers facing serious charges. → Read More
Back to the wild for Brisbane’s neglected urban spaces
Grants of up to $50,000 are up for grabs across the state to enable local groups to transform disused land into community gardens, composting hubs and native habitats. → Read More
Qld court hears of high-profile man charged with two counts of rape
A Toowoomba magistrate has questioned why the man, who is alleged to have committed the offences in October 2021, did not appear in court personally. → Read More
Police killer Gareth Train warned officers to stay away in paranoid video trove
Claims in the videos, many of them absurd, offer insight into the couple’s Christian extremist beliefs and the depths of their conspiracist sense of victimhood. → Read More
Four fresh-faced officers went on a ‘routine’ job. Hours later, six people were dead
On a bush block in the rural Western Downs, four young police officers unwittingly walked into the path of a family consumed by conspiracy theories and bitterness. → Read More
Qld political parties up to their eyeballs in Star cash and promises
The matter of a casino operator’s alleged non-compliance with various laws is an awkward topic when you’ve accepted tens of thousands of dollars from it in donations. → Read More
Meet Michael, a man on a mission for money gone missing
Michael phoned the Brisbane Times in a huff on Thursday as he lugged home his placard. → Read More
Senior figure at a Brisbane theatre company charged with rape of boys and men
Two men associated with a Brisbane performing arts company have been charged with a combined 75 offences. → Read More
Principles to safeguard horses ‘wonderful’, but insiders flag pitfalls
Organisations ranging from pony hobbyists to knackeries to racing trainers are poring over a new Queensland-led consultation paper. → Read More
Unearthed: While dispute dragged, mining company kept chasing pay dirt
New Hope Group mined hundreds of millions of dollars of coal from a pit never identified in environmental approvals. But the Queensland government did not take the matter to court. The miner could plant $2 million worth of trees instead. → Read More
Jos’s dying father pleaded for mercy 42 years ago. It haunts her to this day
Jos Hall watched with interest this week as the highly charged issue of death as mercy played out in Brisbane’s Supreme Court via an attempted murder trial. It so easily could have been her. → Read More
At the coalface in Collinsville, promises, politics and power plants
Far from the internecine machinations of Coalition bargaining in Canberra, the clear-eyed and politics-weary people of Collinsville are feeling used. → Read More
Cold justice: The tragedy at Yuendumu
The murder trial and acquittal of police constable Zachary Rolfe for the death of Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker highlighted long-lasting societal issues. → Read More
‘Huge problems’: Rolfe murder trial hears of police shortage on fatal night
Sergeant Julie Frost had to request a specialist team from Alice Springs, which is how Constable Zachary Rolfe came to be face to face with Kumanjayi Walker. → Read More
After multiple false starts, murder trial of outback cop begins on Monday
One of the most significant murder trials in a generation for its bearing on race, power and policing in modern Australia is set to begin in Darwin. → Read More
A third of aged care homes yet to get booster as death toll mounts
The Federal Government insists the booster program is ahead of schedule. Others see shades of last year’s slow campaign to get first doses into aged care. → Read More
Big trouble on a small Queensland hill
A mining company has flagged the destruction of a sacred Gulf Country hill. Is it Queensland’s own Juukan Gorge disaster, or a chance to raise a community out of poverty? → Read More
‘Welcome home’: Desperate Queenslanders cross the border in midnight rush
After almost 150 days, Queenslanders are coming home. → Read More
‘People are broken’: Queenslanders made homeless for months prepare to cross border
Behind this week’s inevitable images of joyous reunions and various iterations of ‘We did it, Queensland’ is a trail of shattered lives. → Read More