CANBERRA, ACT, April 7 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's note: Images, footage and audio grabs available via Hightail When criminals embedded meth in 32 tonnes of paraffin wax, they thought they'd come up with a foolproof way to get the drugs into Australia. However, they couldn't have been more wrong. Unfortunately for them, the shipment was already in the crosshairs of the AFP and Malaysian authorities, who had been working the long game under a new ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development The Honourable Dale Last New rail facility to support hundreds of jobs on the Gold Coast * Crisafulli Government supports hundreds of jobs on the Gold Coast as it delivers major contract to build rail maintenance facility. * New hub will help service expanded fleet of trains being ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: JOINT STATEMENT Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development The Honourable Dale Last Assistant Minister for Tourism, Early Learning, Creative Industries and Far North Queensland Ms Bree James Expressions of Interest open for the revival of Double Island * The Crisafulli Government seeks Expressions of Interest for Double I...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation The Honourable Andrew Powell More than $6 million for Bunya Mountains National Park upgrades * The Crisafulli Government injects more than $6 million worth of upgrades for the Bunya Mountains National Park. * Improvements will include accessible walking trails and a new visitor information building. * The ecotourism ...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth The Honourable Sam O'Connor Social housing construction boom to add 5,000 homes across Queensland * 5,000 social and affordable homes have been contracted or under construction under the new Crisafulli Government. * Queensland's total social and affordable housing stock to grow 6 per cent from the boost. * Crisafulli Government accelera...
Belconnen, ACT, April 7 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A 48-year-old man who told police he had consumed two bottles of wine prior to driving from Jerrabomberra to Gungahlin has lost his licence for 90 days. About 6pm last Friday (4 April 2025), officers from Gungahlin Police Station were conducting patrols when they came across a collision between a blue Toyota Hilux and green Suzuki Jimny on Anthony Rolfe Avenue. No one was injured as a result of the collision, but poli...
BRISBANE, Queensland, April 7 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Detectives from the Rural and Stock Crime Squad are appealing for information in relation to the theft of 21 sheep from a property on Gatton Clifton Road, Mount Whitestone. The stud quality sheep which were born in November, 2024. The sheep had black NLIS tags with QDLV1050. The sheep were stolen during the day, between 7am and 3pm, on Monday 24 February 2025 and are described as: * One Dorset lam...
Belconnen, ACT, April 6 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: UPDATE: Thank you Canberra. The missing 14-year-old boy has been located safe and well. ********************************************************************************* ACT Policing is urgently seeking the public's assistance to locate missing 14-year-old boy Riley Sebbens. Riley has not been seen or heard from since earlier today (Sunday, 6 April 2025) and was last seen in Hawker. He is described as Caucasian in a...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 6 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Sudan-born man is expected to appear before Melbourne Magistrates Court today (6 April, 2025), charged with allegedly failing to comply with his visa-mandated conditions. The AFP charged the man, 46, on Friday (4 April, 2025) after he was arrested by Victoria Police in Melbourne. It is alleged the man breached the conditions of his Commonwealth visa by not wearing a monitoring device at all times. He ha...
CANBERRA, ACT, April 6 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Jordanian national is expected to face Parramatta Local Court today (6 April, 2025) charged with endangering the safety of a Sydney-bound aircraft and assaulting a member of the cabin crew. AFP at Sydney Airport responded yesterday evening (5 April, 2025) to an airline request for police to meet a flight arriving from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It will be alleged a man, 46, attempted to open the rear emerge...