As it happened: Brisbane on Monday, February 3

Former Queensland Labor premier Anna Bligh will retire mid-year as chief executive of the Australian Banking Association.

Bligh, who succeeded Peter Beattie as premier and held the role from 2007 to 2012, has been the banking lobby chief for eight years.

“When I started in 2017, the banking industry had lost the trust of the Australian community and has since worked tirelessly to earn back that trust,” Bligh said in a statement on Monday.

It was a major career shift for Bligh, who post-politics had returned to working in community organisations after undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The former Left faction leader became Queensland’s first female premier and, at the 2009 election, Australia’s first popularly elected female premier. But she was unable to see Labor re-elected, and resigned from parliament after the LNP swept to power under Campbell Newman.

The south-east Queensland locations where people are most likely to trespass on QR property have been revealed – and two places along the Cleveland line top the list.

Queensland Rail has released the data, along with video of several close calls, in a plea for the community to make safer choices around railways, as the number of trespassing incidents crept up past 3800 in 2024.

Wynnum North, with 165 incidents, and Wynnum Central, with 157, top the list, followed by Loganlea, Murrarie and Roma Street. Not all trespassing happened at commuter stations, with other incidents in electrical substations and rail yards.

QR’s video includes a person jumping across one set of tracks at Fairfield station, narrowly missing being hit by a train coming from the other direction. In another incident caught on camera at Richlands, a skater jumps onto the tracks to get his skateboard.

Drew Brock, a senior manager at Queensland Rail, said witnessing a near miss was traumatic for train drivers, station staff and other passengers.

“Tracks are not playgrounds and if you’re on them it’s like playing chicken with a train,” he said. “We want everyone, including our train drivers and customers, to get home safely.”

A two-metre “vagrant” crocodile has been spotted today near Rainbow Beach north of Brisbane.

The predator was reported on the sand in front of Sarawak camping area at Inskip Point.

Photos captured of the crocodile’s body imprint and claw marks by a ranger.

“We can reassure the public that this crocodile is considered to be a vagrant animal that has moved into the area from up north,” senior wildlife officer Joshua Morris said in a statement.

Ground patrols, boats and drones have been deployed to track down the animal.

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About two-dozen cars have had their tyres slashed, mirrors smashed or panels spray-painted north of Brisbane.

The vehicles were allegedly damaged by a 37-year-old man in a car park along McKean Street in Caboolture on Saturday afternoon.

He reportedly left the scene in a black SUV and returned that evening to damage more cars, before being arrested nearby.

A spokesperson for Queensland Police told Brisbane Times the spray-painting or damage was not targeted at a racial group.

The man – who is believed to be from South Australia – has been charged with 24 counts of wilful damage, and refused bail ahead of a court hearing on February 3.

Anyone with information on the incident is urged to contact police.

Keeping with news from courts for a moment: A blockbuster trial to determine whether Antoinette Lattouf was illegally sacked by the ABC began in the Federal Court in Sydney today.

The names of members of a private WhatsApp chat used to allegedly lobby the ABC chair and managing director into sacking Antoinette Lattouf have been suppressed following an application by Rebekah Giles, a high-profile defamation specialist, on Saturday in an attempt to keep the names of the members of the WhatsApp group “Lawyers for Israel” out of court.

Members of the group made attempts to lobby both former ABC chair Ita Buttrose and outgoing managing director David Anderson into sacking Lattouf in December 2023 while she was employed as a stand-in radio presenter on a five-day contract.

Read more about the case here.

Sam Kerr is set to appear in a London court on Monday night (AEDT) for the first day of a criminal trial in which she is accused of the racially aggravated harassment of a police officer.

Kerr is accused of calling a police officer a variation of “stupid white bastard” (according to the UK Newspaper The Sun) or “stupid white cop” (according to News Corp Australia) after a dispute over a taxi fare in south-west London.

The Matildas captain could face time in jail if she is found guilty of the offence from the incident which occurred on January 30, 2023.

Read everything you need to know ahead of the first day of the trial here.