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25.01.2022 Queensland taxpayers have been handed a $75 million bill to fund the state's public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic.

25.01.2022 Qatar says it will prosecute those responsible for the invasive searches at Doha airport.

25.01.2022 Inner-city residents have less public parkland per person than their suburban counterparts, according to the Greens, which is urging Brisbane City Council to acquire more land to create new parks.

25.01.2022 Australian production company Global Creatures has scored a record-breaking number of Tony Award nominations after the stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge picked up 14 nods overnight.

25.01.2022 The LNP will defund one of Queensland's leading environmental law bodies if it wins next month's state election.

25.01.2022 While the return of the democracy sausage adds a sense of the familiar, the pandemic has radically reshaped this election.

24.01.2022 The Queensland Performing Arts Centre, closed during the pandemic, will come back to life with halls and rooms being filled at 50 per cent capacity under a COVID-safe plan.

24.01.2022 South-east Queensland is expected to sweat through a week of warmer temperatures before a windy weekend and return to cooler spring days, after areas of the state's west were drenched at the weekend.

24.01.2022 Experts are reassuring Queenslanders they won’t have to give up any of their hard-won freedoms now that the borders to most other parts of Australia now lifted.

24.01.2022 It's a testament to the indiscriminate nature of coronavirus that even Santa has cause to feel a little less jolly this year.

23.01.2022 The 2020 ARIA Awards will go ahead in November, with some notable adjustments made to ensure the event complies with health restrictions.

23.01.2022 Chinese cotton mills have been told to stop using Australia cotton, deepening fears that Australian produce is being specifically targeted by the Chinese government.

23.01.2022 The viability of Queensland-only cruises leaving from the new Brisbane International Cruise Terminal is being considered by tourism and cruise ship industries.

23.01.2022 Construction on a long-delayed public golf course in Brisbane's east will begin next month and will mean additional squirrel glider habitat is preserved.

23.01.2022 Networking is on pause, party invitations are shelved and life is in such limbo that there is little news to share.

23.01.2022 The challenges of biblical bush fires, a pandemic and a growing trade battle with China did not hurt the fortunes of the richest 200 Australians, who grew their wealth by $72 billion to $424 billion in 2020.

23.01.2022 At an event like Monday's Emmys, where brilliant shows Schitt's Creek, Watchmen and Succession rightly swept the majority of the awards, it's the harsh reality that some equally acclaimed shows such as Normal People and Mrs. America would have to be left out in the cold.

23.01.2022 Scrums are in danger of being sent to rugby league scrapheap with the NRL announcing experimental rule changes for the final round of the season, including major changes to the bunker process.

23.01.2022 Millions of Australians have type 2 diabetes or are on their way to developing it and are being let down by our health system and current dietary advice, Australian of the Year and ophthalmologist Dr James Muecke says.

22.01.2022 More money needs to be spent turning water pressure down in regional Queensland to conserve the precious resource in drought-devoured parts of the state and to reduce a $9.6 million taxpayer bill, councils say.

22.01.2022 #Opinion: 'My vegan diet ruined my health'

22.01.2022 #Opinion It is not often I wish I lived in Canberra but today is one of those days.

22.01.2022 Coronavirus restrictions that ban groups of more than 10 people congregating in Brisbane will be removed at 1am on Friday, Deputy Premier Steven Miles has confirmed.

22.01.2022 As the US grappled with an incendiary president, soaring coronavirus deaths and an undercurrent of civil unrest, the American crime writer Don Winslow recently found himself "going a little nuts on the internet" in search of coastal properties in Perth.

22.01.2022 About 58 in every dollar of capital expenditure in Queensland's budget will be spent outside Greater Brisbane.

22.01.2022 Better-than-expected conditions could enable firefighters to steer the blaze around the resort, as fears of long-term damage to the island rise.

22.01.2022 US President Donald Trump has declined to disavow the nonsensical QAnon conspiracy theory in a combative town hall performance that aired at the same time as a rival event with Democratic nominee Joe Biden in lieu of a presidential debate.

22.01.2022 Viral video sensation TikToks security credentials remain under a cloud despite a deal with Oracle and Walmart that will see a change in the platforms ownership in Australia.

21.01.2022 More than one in 10 research positions at Australian universities are predicted to disappear by 2024 as revenue from overseas students dries up, and prestigious Group of Eight institutions are tipped to lose the most resources.

21.01.2022 "In the modern era, Australian prime ministers can be broadly divided into two groups: those who've been dedicated to real, substantial policy achievement, and those who've focused on political theatrics."

21.01.2022 The Thorpe familys annual holiday to Coolum took a tragic turn on Monday, when Natasha Thorpe drowned while swimming with her eight-year-old daughter, who was rescued by the victims sister.

21.01.2022 Public transport fares will be frozen next year, meaning commuters will not have to pay any extra for the bus, train or CityCat services, and it is all due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

20.01.2022 I felt physically ill as I watched this week's "Four Corners" as it reminded me a little too much of my own experience as a young female journalist and how we were sitting ducks to predatory men.

20.01.2022 Queensland Health paid out $540 million in invoices late to its vendors after the bungled roll-out of new ordering software last year, and is still not using the software to its full ability.

20.01.2022 The Apple Watch has been my go-to fitness tracker for several years. I love it, and I get a lot of value from it during my workouts but its never felt essential. Its nice, but you dont need one to get fit.

20.01.2022 Australias Test cricketers are bracing for a Christmas and Boxing Day Test without their families because of quarantine issues that Justin Langer says could have some players in bio-secure bubbles for up to 173 consecutive days.

20.01.2022 If you ever find yourself hitting the bottom of a chip packet or a tub of pesto dip and wondering how the heck that happened, perhaps don't be too hard on yourself. It's possibly no accident.

20.01.2022 Next generation game consoles are less than a month away and, after seven long years with the current batch, there's plenty to get excited about.

20.01.2022 The world is waiting for a "suicidal" Australia to reverse its stance on climate change, says one of the world's most senior diplomats.

20.01.2022 Queenslands Chief Health Officer has defended her teams decision to deny an exemption to a man who recently underwent brain surgery, declaring the state now has a quarantine hospital where he would be better looked after.

20.01.2022 With both federal major party leaders now essentially excluded from the state, the 2020 state election will be the first in at least a decade without an appearance by the federal Labor side.

20.01.2022 After quitting secure jobs and failing at acting, Sarah Cooper hoped to make it as a stand-up comedian. Then she recorded some Donald Trump lip-synch videos and suddenly the sky was the limit.

20.01.2022 Police have arrested a man after he walked into an Ipswich supermarket with a loaded crossbow, firing arrows and wounding a teenage girl.

19.01.2022 Macquarie Group and Commonwealth Bank are facing fresh scrutiny of their oversight of anti-money laundering laws after it emerged that overseas banks had reported close to $US167 million ($230m) of potential dirty money transactions flowing through the two Australian banks.

19.01.2022 #Opinion While the loo roll hoarding has eased off, and shelves in most stores are fully stacked again, there will be some habits that will be hard to shake when this pandemic ends.

19.01.2022 #Opinion Those in charge may need to make it mandatory for leave takers to submit "medical certificates or statutory declarations attesting to their genuine need to take leave".

19.01.2022 We're likely to look back on 2020 as being extraordinary, and not in a good way. Who knew in January that a snazzy face mask might turn out to be an ideal Christmas gift? Or that the term "social distancing" would permeate the lexicon?

18.01.2022 The coronavirus recession will not be as deep as feared for Australia, the International Monetary Fund believes, but it will take years to recover with ongoing high levels of unemployment and government debt.

18.01.2022 Do you have a burning ambition to climb Machu Picchu? Do you want to start a business or go to an all-night rave? If the answer to all three is no, read on.

18.01.2022 "We will continue working for as long as there are live animals on the site."

18.01.2022 Violent right-wing extremists are increasingly catching the attention of Australia's domestic spy agency, with the threat now accounting for about a third of its counter-terrorism cases.

17.01.2022 Its not quite the plot of the movie Goal! ... but its really not that far off.

17.01.2022 The Greens have renewed calls for the Queensland government and Brisbane City Council to jointly purchase the former ABC Toowong site at 600 Coronation Drive, as an expressions of interest campaign ends in a week.

17.01.2022 Greening Australia and the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will begin a project to plant 25 million trees on degraded landscapes in what will be one of the nations largest-ever privately funded restoration projects.

17.01.2022 A Queensland woman in her 30s who tested for positive for COVID-19 in Victoria after visiting several Queensland cities has triggered a coronavirus scare, with several people in the state ordered to isolate themselves for 14 days.

17.01.2022 At only 30cm tall and made mostly of felt, plastic and wires, Baby Yoda might seem small by Hollywood standards but the diminutive alien has upended the Star Wars universe with more force than anyone anticipated.

16.01.2022 In a few years, Queensland's total debt bill will hit a massive $129.72 billion. That is $25,140 racked up in debt for every man, woman and child living in Queensland that must presumably be paid back.

16.01.2022 Former Wallabies prop Dan Palmer writes about how hiding his sexuality put him in a downward spiral, and why he hopes coming out will help others confronting the same struggle.

16.01.2022 Melbournes wealthy Deague family is suing an investment banker and his British backed firm alleging they were duped into investing millions in a $120 million apartment project that turned out to have higher costs than expected.

16.01.2022 If there is any industry that has been smashed by coronavirus more than cinemas, Benjamin Zeccola can't think of it.

16.01.2022 Consultation on the Kangaroo Point and Breakfast Creek green bridges has closed, with more than 2000 people providing feedback to Brisbane City Council on the proposed designs.

16.01.2022 Analysis of campaign media coverage lays bare the major parties' key election strategies, with Labor focusing on the pandemic and the LNP taking a tough stance on crime.

16.01.2022 A brushtail possum that fell from the roof of a Brisbane home into a drainpipe was plucked to safety but its rescuers then realised its joey was left behind.

16.01.2022 Wallabies great David Campese sat down to watch the first Bledisloe Test with reservations about the Wallabies side, but finished it believing the All Blacks’ grip on world rugby is well and truly over.

15.01.2022 Regarded as one of the best up-and-comers in the LNP, Dan Purdie darts around the halls of Parliament with a buoyant spring in his step.

15.01.2022 The biggest collapse in Australias population growth since World War I will drive a huge fall in new home construction that could hold back the nations recovery from the coronavirus recession.

15.01.2022 A rental advocacy group has called for the next Queensland government to boost COVID-19 protections for tenants and overhaul rental laws as financial support dries up amid the pandemic's ongoing economic impact.

15.01.2022 Apple's collection of new iPhones, unveiled early on Wednesday, is its most diverse lineup yet, with four distinct models at a range of price points. But the minimum cost of entry may still be too steep for some.

15.01.2022 There is much to debate for Geelong and the Brisbane Lions heading into Saturday night's preliminary final at the Gabba, including how best to handle Patrick Dangerfield. We take a look at the burning questions heading into this heavyweight battle.

15.01.2022 Banking giant Westpac is preparing to pay penalties in excess of $1 billion for its breaches of anti-money laundering laws and for failing to stop child exploitation payments in what is expected to be the largest fine in Australian corporate history.

15.01.2022 For the first time since the industrial revolution, coal-fired power will constitute less than 20 per cent of the world's energy by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency.

14.01.2022 Police have fined two Brisbane venues for breaching COVID requirements as the state edges closer to the target of 14 days without community transmission.

14.01.2022 It's not quite the plot of the movie Goal! ... but it's really not that far off.

14.01.2022 Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says it's a good time for first-home buyers to get a foot on the property ladder as the economy grapples with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but warns the jobless rate will remain high for years.

14.01.2022 #Opinion The battle between the Christian right and the moderates for number one on the LNP Senate ticket may be determined at preselection for the seat of Groom.

14.01.2022 If ever there was an opportunity to reshape how you celebrate Christmas, it’s this year. That’s the thinking of Jessica Beaton, who, as she spent more time than usual at home with her four sons, realised they played with only a small portion of their toys.

13.01.2022 Queensland’s suicide rate did not change during lockdowns, however the pandemic contributed to a handful of people taking their own lives, research has found.

13.01.2022 Mathematical modelling by Queensland scientists has sent accepted time-travel theory for a loop, proving that paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible.

13.01.2022 An independent neurologist, who has advised the Roosters over concussion concerns, says the club has been so conservative with players returning from head knocks it has kept stars off the park longer than he recommended.

13.01.2022 #Opinion We have lost the ability to have frank conversations. There are many reasons for this but let’s poke one highly sensitive bear: the most ardent lockdown enthusiasts come from privileged classes who don’t live and work in the front-line suburbs where their daft decrees fall hardest.

12.01.2022 The 10-person limit on gatherings in homes and outdoor areas in Brisbane and Ipswich is on track to be lifted at the weekend, according to the states chief health officer, Dr Jeannette Young.

12.01.2022 #Opinion: Art does not justify a Martin Bryant movie.

12.01.2022 Guns, drugs, cash and a boa constrictor were seized during raids targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs across the Sunshine Coast and Gympie, according to police.

12.01.2022 A 34-year-old Darling Downs mother has drowned during a holiday swim with her daughter at a Sunshine Coast beach.

12.01.2022 Airlines will more than triple flights into Queensland from next month when state borders reopen, with thousands of southerners set to flock to the state.

12.01.2022 The University of NSW has developed a global higher education ranking system it hopes will become the go-to international scoreboard for university performance and ease concerns about the distorting effects of league tables.

12.01.2022 #Opinion If the spirit of the Olympics counts for anything, and if Australia is as big-hearted as it imagines itself to be, one of the ceremonies of this 20th anniversary celebration of the Sydney Games should be an apology to Marie-Jose Perec.

12.01.2022 Within a year, three-quarters of the electricity powering Coles Group stores in Queensland will be generated by wind and the sun.

11.01.2022 #Opinion The lead-up to the second Bledisloe Cup rugby match in Auckland highlights the interesting times we live in.

11.01.2022 In his budget speech, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg acknowledged that the coronavirus has robbed more women of their jobs than men, magnifying the financial disparity between the sexes. However, experts say that his measures to address the issue fall too short to have any real impact.

11.01.2022 Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ordered a full review into the preparedness for and response to the bushfire, which has razed almost half of the world heritage-listed K'gari or Fraser Island.

11.01.2022 Male funnel-web spiders have venom that is far more potent than the female of the species, and Queensland researchers have discovered the reason.

11.01.2022 A Donald Trump victory in the US election is the only risk to a $10 billion IPO boom on the ASX as companies scramble to sell into a market that has shrugged off COVID concerns and is now hunting for yield stocks and sectors that have prospered amid the pandemic.

11.01.2022 Australia is facing a deficit of 280,000 babies by 2024 due to the recession and unrealistic pre-coronavirus forecasts of a birth surge that threatens to leave a permanent hole in the federal budget.

11.01.2022 #LIVE: Deputy Premier and Minister for Health @stevenmilesmp will provide a health update.

10.01.2022 Minister Alan Tudge and Minister Stuart Robert will discuss steps for the safe opening of global travel and announce a digital system that will support the quick and secure collection of incoming passenger information.

10.01.2022 When Anthony Fauci predicted in late March that up to 200,000 people could die from COVID-19 in the US, the figure seemed beyond comprehension. At that stage less than 3000 Americans had died from coronavirus and President Donald Trump was speaking optimistically about having the countrys economy "opened up and raring to go" by Easter.

10.01.2022 A little respite is forecast for Thursday but it won't last as temperatures rise heading into the weekend.

10.01.2022 The Wallabies might cop the bitter taste of defeat in Bledisloe III on Saturday but the sweetener is that any worthy All Blacks performance will have its origins in the renewed level of respect between the sides.

10.01.2022 About 40,000 NRL fans will be allowed through the gates for State of Origin matches in Queensland and NSW as both states relax capacity rules at their major stadiums.

09.01.2022 Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has been forced to pay more than 4000 workers a total of $173.6 million after systemic underpayment was uncovered across the chain.

09.01.2022 Australian researchers embarking on the worlds largest genetic study of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are looking for 3500 volunteers.

09.01.2022 More than 1 million people will cast their vote in Queensland's cliffhanger pandemic election on Saturday, and Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says "every single vote is important".

08.01.2022 Brisbane nightclubs fortunate enough to have an outdoor area are bracing themselves for a surge in revenue after Queensland's dance ban was partially lifted on Tuesday.

08.01.2022 Even as they dare to dream that the Trump era may be coming to an end, rank-and-file Democrats remain petrified of the President's barnstorming rallies across the key battleground states.

08.01.2022 The NRL has announced 25 per cent of its staff will be cut as the code moves to save $50 million a year.

08.01.2022 Two severe storms picked up on radar earlier have eased, but the weather bureau says other severe cells are "likely" to form on Tuesday afternoon and evening over the south-east Queensland coast.

08.01.2022 Rockhampton's mayor-elect, Chris "Pineapple" Hooper, has urged supporters to parade with the fruit in protest over Wednesday's laws to block his appointment.

08.01.2022 A pedestrian has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after he was hit by a truck on the Gold Coast.

08.01.2022 A Queensland man who spent 77 days in intensive care on and off a ventilator has been moved to a rehabilitation centre after a six-month hospital stay.

07.01.2022 Qantas will end its 30-year sponsorship of the Wallabies and cease financial support for the national cricket and soccer teams as it desperately tries to save cash during the coronavirus crisis.

07.01.2022 Queensland researchers are developing a material that dramatically lowers the amount of time coronavirus can survive on surfaces.

07.01.2022 The US COVID-19 death toll of 200,000 leaves a terrible legacy of misery. However, President Donald Trumps tweets tell a decidedly different story.

07.01.2022 Queensland's Deputy Premier has accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of using the nations defence force as a "bargaining chip" to pressure the state into reopening its borders.

07.01.2022 #Opinion An important means to stop systemic bullying is if others can speak up, and stand with those who are under attack. Australia's friends and allies can do more to help, by looking to ways to partner economically and speaking up in support.

07.01.2022 From 4pm on Tuesday, restrictions will ease further in Queensland, where there are now nine active cases, all of them overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.

07.01.2022 Queenslanders can get their groove on again from Tuesday, provided they're outdoors or at a wedding.

07.01.2022 #LIVE Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth is providing a COVID-19 update

07.01.2022 Queensland could reopen its border to all of NSW on October 6 if health authorities are able to trace how every new COVID-19 case is acquired from now until then.

06.01.2022 Australian researchers have helped find what could be the oldest traces of humans found on the Arabian peninsula - a group of footprints dating back 120,000 years.

06.01.2022 We crunch the numbers to give you a complete guide to this year's Brownlow Medal count, including who the bolters could be and just how many votes Lachie Neale is likely to poll.

05.01.2022 The search is on for 200 test subjects for a COVID trial at the Gabba in Brisbane tonight, with the sweetener being free tickets to watch the Port Adelaide and Collingwood AFL clash.

05.01.2022 Two million Australian households will be able to demand fibre-to-the-home internet by 2023 as part of a $3.5 billion upgrade of the National Broadband Network in residential streets to begin within months.

05.01.2022 It was the hot favourite going into Emmy night, and the cult comedy series Schitts Creek did not disappoint its fans, taking a clean sweep of the seven comedy categories: series, lead and supporting actor and actress, directing and writing.

05.01.2022 Greg Foran says quarantine-free travel between Australia and NZ is unlikely within the next six months.

04.01.2022 Any remaining campers at the Cathedrals camping ground in central Fraser Island have been asked to immediately leave the camp ground to escape a threatening bushfire.

04.01.2022 SA Health is providing an update to explain how two travellers caught COVID-19 from their medi-hotel.

04.01.2022 Queenslands border bubble will be shifted further south next month, letting 152,000 more people from NSW into the state without having to quarantine or apply for an exemption.

04.01.2022 The Queensland Premier and Transport Minister were unaware their government’s flagship $5.4 billion Cross River Rail project was referred to the Auditor-General by concerned infrastructure expert David Bannister.

04.01.2022 Friday's decision to reopen the state's borders to everyone in NSW except those in Sydney sparked immediate outcry from the beleaguered business sector.

03.01.2022 Controversial changes to postal delivery services made during the coronavirus pandemic could be wound back before their planned expiry date amid a string of scandals within Australia Post.

03.01.2022 #LIVE Prime Minister is speaking to media at Meridian Helicopters, Townsville. He is joining Queensland opposition leader Deb Frecklington ion the election campaign trail

03.01.2022 South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has plunged his state into full lockdown for six days to get on top of the growing COVID-19 cluster.

03.01.2022 Whatever you may have heard to the contrary, this fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith, the crime-writing alias of J.K. Rowling, is not about a ''transvestite serial killer''.

02.01.2022 #GraphicContent: A man armed with a knife killed a history teacher in front of his school in a suburb of Paris, police said, in an attack that was being treated as terrorism.

02.01.2022 Neck chains were used on Indigenous people until the time cars became common in Australia, a University of Queensland scholar says.

02.01.2022 So you might think that you know everything you need to know about the case that transfixed the nation. But youd be mistaken.

02.01.2022 Investigators are still working to find the cause of a fire that ripped through a child care centre under construction in Brisbane's north overnight.

02.01.2022 Prime Minister Scott Morrison has extended an olive branch to China, saying he is willing to discuss their list of complaints any time and reiterated Australia wants nothing more than "happy coexistence" with its largest trading partner.

02.01.2022 The federal government's tax cuts will leave more than a million lower income earners paying a higher rate of tax on their superannuation contributions than their take home pay, prompting an industry push for a bigger offset to help bolster retirement balances.

02.01.2022 Thunderstorms with possible hail are forecast for Saturday afternoon as voters decide who will be Queensland's next premier.

01.01.2022 Queensland is now the sole Australian state to not extend its ban on evicting residential tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a new open letter signed by almost 40 peak bodies, unions and frontline community organisations urging the government to do so.

01.01.2022 Prime Minister Scott Morrison is speaking to media.