Qld mayor sentenced to community service
A Queensland mayor has been sentenced to community service for drink-driving after she crashed a car into a tree while more than three times the legal limit.
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Company-owned Qld town worried over future
There is a push to make Weipa, one of Australia's few remaining privately owned towns, a regular local government.
Qld councils broke finance reporting law
Queensland's auditor-general says 60 per cent the state's local councils are at moderate or high risk of not being financially sustainable.