Violent men who are charged by police for choking women will be regarded as serious violent offenders and could be forcibly detained even after their sentence has been served under new laws to be introduced today. 

The teenage driver accused of killing Charlie Stevens has been banned from contacting the four eyewitnesses to the alleged hit and run crash – whose conflicting accounts underpin the case against him. 

Tens of thousands of Queensland public servants are set to receive a one-off cash boost in time for Christmas in a generous wage deal set to cost the state government $350m a year. 

New schools for booming Western Sydney suburbs risk being overcrowded from the day they open, with existing primary schools already enrolling more kids than the maximum capacity of the proposed high schools nearby. 

Violent men who are charged by police for choking women will be regarded as serious violent offenders and could be forcibly detained even after their sentence has been served under new laws to be introduced today. 
The teenage driver accused of killing Charlie Stevens has been banned from contacting the four eyewitnesses to the alleged hit and run crash – whose conflicting accounts underpin the case against him. 
Tens of thousands of Queensland public servants are set to receive a one-off cash boost in time for Christmas in a generous wage deal set to cost the state government $350m a year. 
New schools for booming Western Sydney suburbs risk being overcrowded from the day they open, with existing primary schools already enrolling more kids than the maximum capacity of the proposed high schools nearby.

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