Crime A taser, drill and hatchet were used to torment and threaten an elderly man who was kidnapped and bound after meeting two men on a social app, police say.

Politics Brisbane LNP councillor Kate Richards, dropped from the party ahead of the March 19 civic poll, has taken aim at “backroom political powerbrokers”.

News Union claims the move would ‘make a mockery of leadership accountability on mine safety’.

Crime ‘I hope you are ashamed of punching your mother,’ magistrate says.

News A WOMAN has been caught on camera stealing sex toys at a Toowoomba adult store, while two accomplices distracted staff.

Crime A man has been filmed allegedly assaulting a pair of teens at a bus stop on a main road before allegedly calling his daughter “to come here and smash you now”.

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