Media Statements

The Palaszczuk Government will provide more than $2.3 million to local councils in the latest round of its Illegal Dumping Grants.

Community organisations and not-for-profits are being encouraged to apply for funding under a new Palaszczuk Government grants program to tackle social isolation and loneliness in our communities.

The Premier today announced a new Police Academy for Townsville, as she revealed artist impressions of the new state-of-the-art Queensland police precinct.

135 Queenslanders have been acknowledged in the 2023 Australia Day Honours List.

Three Queensland Corrective Services officers have been recognised in the Australia Day Honours, receiving the Australian Corrections Medal.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services personnel have today been named in the Australia Day Honours List and awarded the prestigious Australian Fire Service Medal (AFSM) and Emergency Services Medal (ESM).

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.