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Cyber criminal. | Newsreel

40% jump in reports of online child sexual exploitation

Australian authorities battling child exploitation registered a more than 40 percent jump in reported cases over the past 12 months. Australian Federal Police (AFP)
Read more 8 September 2025
Former New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller. | Newsreel

Fuller new Director of Forensic Science Queensland

Former New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller is the new Director of Forensic Science Queensland (FSQ), following his recent work on the State’s DNA
Read more 8 September 2025
Fishway.| Newsreel

Waterway stairs help fish scale new heights

Special “stairs” will be built to help fish access breeding grounds in a Sunshine Coast waterway. Sunshine Coast Council Division 10 Councillor David Law said weirs
Read more 8 September 2025
Woman drinking coffee. | Newsreel

Sweet lure of caffeine replaces the fizz for Aussies

Fewer Australians are drinking soft drinks than a decade ago, but we’ve upped our coffee intake by almost 20 percent. New data released today by the Australian Bureau
Read more 8 September 2025
Fireworks Brisbane. | Newsreel

Police prepare for 400,000 Brisbane city visitors

Queensland Police are preparing for 400,000 people to descend on Brisbane city tomorrow for Riverfire. Riverfire Operations Commander Acting Superintendent Stewart Day
Read more 5 September 2025
Person casting a vote. | Newsreel

Voter safety focus of 2025 Federal election inquiry

Fixed terms for Federal governments and voter safety are among the key topics of a Parliamentary inquiry into the 2025 Federal election. The Federal Parliament’s Joint
Read more 5 September 2025
Matt and Pat Cronin. | newsreel

Spreading a message that violence is never OK

Ipswich teenagers will be the next to hear an anti-violence message as a foundation, forged from grief, expands into Queensland. The Pat Cronin Foundation, started in
Read more 5 September 2025
Bansky art. | Newsreel

New Bansky chapter set to hit Brisbane

A more expansive Banksy exhibition will make its appearance in Brisbane in November. Managing Director of Muse Entertainment Kemal Gurkaynak said The Art of Banksy:
Read more 5 September 2025
Courtney Conovan in Gems, Brisbane Festival. | Newsreel

Time is now for Bezzina’s Brisbane Festival finale

More than 2200 artists will feature in over 1000 performances, across 106 productions, during the 23 days of the Brisbane Festival which is now under way. Brisbane
Read more 5 September 2025
Creative Australia Chair Professor Wesley Enoch

New national giving day for Aussie artists

A new national day to support the Arts in Australia will be held in October. AusArt Day, on October 23, will be a day for all Australians to show their support for
Read more 4 September 2025