BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Tablelands Police are trying to locate the owners of the pictured items that have been handed into police. The green pushbike was located on Wednesday December 4 at about 10am in bushland on Minna Street Herberton. Please contact Herberton Police on 4096 2568 and reference QP2402082064 to claim if it belongs to you. The gold ring was located at Gallery 5 on Herberton Street Atherton on Monday Decemb...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have charged a 26-year-old Gulliver man with murder following the death of a 21-year-old Vincent man at Woodstock in December last year. Around 8.45am on Saturday December 14, a passer-by found the 21-year-old man's body on the backseat of his vehicle on Webb Road. Following investigations by the Townsville Criminal Investigation Branch and the Homicide Investigation Unit, the Gulliver man wa...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are investigating a series of property crime offences linked to a group of armed offenders in Logan and South Brisbane districts yesterday, February 11. Initial information indicate overnight between 10pm and 5:30am, a break in has occurred at a Melaleuca Place property at Carindale in Brisbane's south, where a white Hyundai Tucson and grey Lexus 300 were stolen. It is understood the vehicles...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are appealing for information following a ram raid of a store in Gracemere early this morning, February 12. Around 5am, a stolen vehicle deliberately rammed through the front of a shop within a shopping centre on McLaughlin Street in Gracemere. The offenders were disrupted by police and fled the scene a short time later in the stolen vehicle. There was extensive damage caused to the shopping...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery with violence in Rockhampton on February 11. Around 7.45am on February 11, two unknown people have approached a vehicle stopped at red light on the intersection of Norman Road and Farm Street in Normal Gardens and attempted to pull the driver from the vehicle. The driver of the red dual cab Holden Colorado was released and drove awa...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police have arrested three people as part an operation targeting the trafficking of dangerous drugs on the Gold Coast. Operation Xray Vent was launched by the Crime and Intelligence Command Drug and Serious Crime Group in January following intelligence indicating the trafficking of illicit drugs including heroin, cocaine and methylamphetamine. Investigations resulted in the execution of eight search...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Feb. 12 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: An EMERGENCY ALERT has been issued at 12:35pm on Wednesday 12 February, 2025 by the Hinchinbrook Local Disaster Management Group. This is a FLOOD WATCH AND ACT MESSAGE from Hinchinbrook Shire Council for or rising flood water affecting Ingham and the Lower Herbert region today and again tomorrow. Ingham Pump Station Gauge expected to peak at 12 meters and Halifax Gauge expected to remain at 5.4 mete...
SYDNEY, Feb. 11 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has agreedto a request fromLutheran Laypeople's League of Australia Limitedto revoke its licence to operate as an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) and revert to a Religious Charitable Development Fund. The updated list of all APRA-authorised ADIs is available on the APRA website at:Register of authorised deposit-taking institutions. ...
SYDNEY, Feb. 11 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has taken further action to address material prudential concerns identified with United Super Pty Ltd (United Super) and to support improved outcomes for its members. United Super is the trustee for Construction and Building Unions Superannuation Fund (Cbus), which has over 920,000 member accounts and around $100 billion in funds under m...
CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 11 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Melbourne man has been sentenced today (11 February, 2025) for creating false accounts to disguise payments made to Malaysian public officials and their associates to facilitate the purchase of his property developments in 2013. The man, 72, pleaded guilty on 29 October, 2024, to one count of false accounting, and was sentenced to 21 months' suspended imprisonment by the County Court of Victoria. The AF...