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Twelve members of the Queensland Police Service were today awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM) in recognition of their astonishing contribution to policing.

Over coming months, more than $26 million will be invested by the Palaszczuk Government in community sport and active recreation clubs to enhance our State’s great lifestyle and encourage more young Queenslanders to stay active and healthy.

Beekeepers can now apply for a permit to move European honey bees and other related materials into Queensland from the NSW General Emergency Zone (GEZ) after this zone was declared free of varroa mites.

Eleven organisations have been successful in receiving grant funding from the Queensland Government for projects that respond to domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) in the state’s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

An Australian-first critical minerals demonstration facility which will be expanded to include more than just vanadium will be built in Townsville to unlock Queensland’s next mining and manufacturing boom.

Queensland, in partnership with the Northern Territory and Western Australia, will have even stronger surveillance and preparedness for emergency animal diseases with an injection of $4.33 million in federal funding.

North Queensland manufacturers will be able to save valuable time and money developing new products, thanks to a program being delivered by the Palaszczuk Government, in conjunction with James Cook University.

Heavy machinery and specialist crews have begun demolishing homes at Goodna which were among the first homes bought back under the $741 million Resilient Homes Fund.

A Queensland research hub is set to spark major advancements in scientific exploration and biotech with a $23 million upgrade featuring Australia’s first 3D nano printer now complete.

More than 166,000 hectares of critical habitat – equivalent to the size of Cairns – will be protected in a partnership between the Queensland Palaszczuk Government and a number of property owners in the state’s north.

Construction work is underway on building a brand new 275kV Queensland SuperGrid Link between Cairns and Townsville as part of the Palaszczuk Government’s Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan.

Queensland kindy families are starting the year with cost-of-living relief thanks to the Palaszczuk Government’s $1 billion investment in kindergarten, with 14,000 children getting it completely free.