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Outgoing Premier Hon Steven Miles addresses media for the first time following the Labor party’s defeat in the 2024 Queensland State Election.

Labor finds some spine on hate laws – and the LNP reaches for outrage

The opposition’s most significant symbolic gesture since it was swept from power at the 2024 state election carries risk for the party on two fronts.

  • Matt Dennien

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Palestinian DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi performing at Exit music festival, Serbia, in 2021.

Palestinian DJ ‘heartbroken’ after visa not approved ahead of major music festivals

Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers.

  • Kayla Olaya
Protesters taking part in the March for Palestine in Brisbane in August, attended by tens of thousands of people

Labor opposes hate speech and gun control law to LNP jeers

Queensland’s Deputy Premier has launched an inflammatory tirade accusing Labor of supporting terrorists and antisemitism after Thursday’s parliamentary vote.

  • Matt Dennien
Premier of Queensland David Crisafulli during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 18 February 2026.

State walks back attorney-general’s powers as Labor moves to support hate speech bill

Queensland’s opposition will ultimately back the contentious hate speech and gun law changes, while the government has made a last-minute change to the bill.

  • Matt Dennien and Catherine Strohfeldt
Protesters taking part in August 2025’s March for Palestine in Brisbane, which attendance estimates of XX,000 people.

Police will ‘choose their mark’ to enforce protest slogan ban

High-ranking police faced questions about how they would crack down on crowds of thousands if they chanted phrases banned under the new laws.

  • Matt Dennien
Malki Roth was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem aged 15.

Arnold’s daughter died in an intifada. He says calls to globalise it are ‘madness’

The father of a Melbourne-born girl who died at 15 in a Jerusalem suicide bombing says Grace Tame’s calls to “globalise the intifada” have grim consequences.

  • Matthew Knott
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David Crisafulli speaks to the National Press Club in Canberra.

Crisafulli insists his hate speech laws will ‘stand the test of time’

Dozens of groups have raised concerns about the laws, which will ban any phrases – spoken or written – decided by the A-G, and extend police search powers.

  • Matt Dennien
More than 1000 protesters descended on King George Square outside City Hall on Monday.

‘Attack on freedom of speech’: Labor faces grassroots push to reject Qld hate laws

The Labor opposition is facing pressure from a grassroots movement to vote against the state government’s hate speech laws.

  • James Hall and Matt Dennien
Protesters gathered in their thousands at Flinders Street Station on Thursday night.

Herzog Melbourne protest as it happened: Israeli president faces protests in final leg of controversial trip

The Israeli president is visiting Melbourne briefly before returning to Israel after a controversial trip to Australia to meet with victims of the Bondi terror attack and politicians.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Sherryn Groch, Angus Delaney, Adam Carey, Jackson Graham and Chip Le Grand
Police keep pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters separate during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Melbourne.
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Police keep pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters separate

Police keep pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters separate during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Melbourne.