Queensland's legendary police chief Steve Gollschewski dies at 67

Steve Gollschewski, Queensland's 21st and longest-serving police commissioner in modern memory, died at 67 after a life given almost entirely to public order and community safety. Over 46 years, he guided his state through floods, cyclones, bushfires, a global pandemic, and a reckoning within the force itself — only to face his most personal crisis quietly, with the same resolve he had brought to every disaster before it. His death closes a chapter in Queensland's institutional history, one defined less by rank than by the rare quality of a public servant who remained, to the end, more interes