After more than 50 attacks in a year, stores now close earlier in Akita, mail delivery has stopped in some places, and children no longer walk to school alone.

Last year, 27 drug samples showed up at pill-testing services at schoolies. This year, drug takers will have to chance it.

For electrician Hayley Campbell, the journey to diagnosis was long and expensive. But change is coming for other Queenslanders struggling with the disorder.

Almost three years on from Rachel McCrow’s murder – in what has since been described as Australia’s first religiously motivated terror attack, at a remote property at Wieambilla – her father still wears the keepsake around his neck.
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent resurrecting a suburban playground on Brisbane’s north side that was destroyed by arsonists 18 months ago.
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A Brisbane road has been declared the sixth-coolest street in the world by a global hospitality magazine, one of just two Australian streets to make the list.
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Construction of a new waterfront luxury apartment building has begun in the inner-city, right next to one of Brisbane’s biggest development projects.
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A plaque depicting disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will remain in place at a Queensland museum, even as the fallen prince continues to pay the price for his connection to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A new white paper has called for a fundamental shift in how Queensland’s railways are operated – and warned infrastructure for the Olympic Games must be designed and delivered with the next half-century in mind.
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Police have shot two men in separate incidents in Queensland, with one man dead and other taken to hospital in a critical condition.
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The teenage girl killed in a late-night alleged hit-and-run north of Brisbane has been remembered by her family as a gentle soul who cared deeply about those around her.
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A mother of five with no criminal history who was prosecuted harshly by the Australian Tax Office has spoken for the first time about the torment she has suffered.
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Opinion: A new leader won’t fix a party that has forgotten what it stands for.
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At least two teenage criminals visited theme parks on the Gold Coast on a taxpayer-funded trip while undergoing rehabilitation.
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