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The Supreme Court was on Tuesday presented with photos of Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright taken on Mr Tostee's phone ...

Tostee: 'Why does this keep happening to me?'

Timothy Lang.

Man charged over fatal one-punch attack

UPDATED
Amy Mitchell-Whittington

A man has been charged after allegedly escaping from the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday.

Man mistakenly arrested in hunt for court escapee

Jorge Branco

Friends and family mourn Stephen Phillips at St Brigid's Church in Red Hill.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra farewells one its own

Jorge Branco

Mr Cramp moved out of the family home as a teenager.

'I was grateful for the lock on my bedroom': MP's violent childhood

UPDATED
Felicity Caldwell

Police have released a computer-generated image of a man who could assist in their investigation.

Police hunt for man over strangle attack on boy, 9

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

'It doesn't surprise me': How Credlin dealt with 'locker room' banter

Jenna Clarke

'You know what to do, but...': A grandmother's advice for Trump

Jenna Johnson

Man trapped in limo after M1 crash

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

No clowning around as Qld declares war on scary craze

Backlash as govt drops English, geography tests for taxi drivers

200 Warriewood Street, Chandler.

Acreage luring buyers away from the 'burbs

Ellen Lutton

Socceroo Mile Jedinak is congratulated by teammates after his penalty.

Socceroos and Japan share the spoils in tightly fought qualifier

Analysts say a permanent end to Note 7 sales could cost Samsung up to $17 billion and tarnish its other phone products ...

Samsung scraps Galaxy Note 7 production over fire concerns

A long way from the City: Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church in <i>Divorce</I>.

Sarah Jessica Parker's 'Divorce' is no Sex and the City

Telstra chairman John Mullen: "One of our competitors is seeking regulation to close this competitive gap by cheaply ...

Telstra takes swipe at Vodafone

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Plays of the Week

New laws require that a valid certificate be attached to the sale or rental contract of any property with a swimming ...

Who pays to upgrade my dividing fence due to pool restrictions?

Brisbane City Hall

Brisbane Times has moved to a new neighbourhood

Saudi teen flirts online with a young woman in ...

10:03AM

Truganina site sold as scam victims seek to ...

11:15PM

The time has come for life insurers to get with ...

10:55PM

AC/DC performs in Brisbane on November 12, 2015.

Sold out AC/DC concerts rescue Brisbane's white elephant

Felicity Caldwell

UberEATS launches in Brisbane after 'incredible' response

Toby Crockford

Police divers join hunt for missing woman

The bill to create a Cross River Rail Delivery Authority has been introduced.

Cross River Rail closer, with 45,000 more peak-hour riders coming

Felicity Caldwell

More than 2700 reports for performance matters were made about the Queensland public service in the past financial year.

Public servants reported in thousands over job performance

Felicity Caldwell

The Mila Jude ran aground on a reef off Cairns on Sunday.

Stranded sailor rescued by Border Force off Queensland coast

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Child Safety Minister Shannon Fentiman faced numerous questions over her department during Question Time.

Child Safety Minister in firing line amid calls for dignity

Felicity Caldwell

Police are continuing their inquiries.

Breaking Bird: Crow reveals secret meth stash

WA

A man has been charged after allegedly escaping from the Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Monday.

Man mistakenly arrested in hunt for court escapee

Vincent Stanford showed no emotion during his police interviews.

'I just wanted to kill her': Court hears confession

NSW

News ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, officially launch the consultation on the government?s light rail urban designs. ...

ACT reconsiders greyhound ban after NSW backflip

ACT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Ambridge, Penn. ...

An 89-year-old grandmother gives Trump sage advice

Jenna Johnson

Donald Trump and Mark Burnett, pictured here in 2008.

Claims Trump 'used the N-word' as pressure grows to release tapes

Pulling faces: Donald Trump during the second presidential debate.

'Deepest crisis since Watergate': Savage blow for Trump's campaign

Paul McGeough

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media during a press conference at Parliament House.

Same-sex marriage denied and everyone shares the blame

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Same-sex marriage plebiscite dead after Labor vote

Michael Koziol

New One Nation senator wants 'patriotic broadcasting corporation'

Tom McIlroy

Paul McClintock says there is no believable end to the deficit in sight.

Business group lashes PM over deficit, tax scare campaign

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses Labor of immaturity and unreadiness over its stance on the South China Sea problem.

PM slams Labor call to challenge China's artificial islands

"The dark cloud hanging over the CFA has finally been lifted": Employment Minister Michaelia Cash.

'Dark cloud lifted': Country Fire Authority legislation passes

BP has dumped plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight.

BP dumps plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight

Thiolina Marpaung walks through the Sari Club site, now a makeshift carpark.

Fight for peace park continues 14 years after Bali bombings

Police detain a man at Pavao Pavaozinho slum on Monday.

Rio shoot-outs, school closures as crime wave worsens

Paulo Prada

Michael Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, at his foundation in Moscow, in May.

War talk is back on Russian TV

A young man in Saudi Arabia known as Abu Sin and Christina Crockett, a young American.

Saudi teen flirts online with a young US woman - and ends up in jail

Sophie went missing for 24 hours.

In a cynical world, can people still surprise us?

COMMENT
John Birmingham

"How can our system be so wrong that it is possible to even put a private return flight to your own wedding through, ...

How could the groom not know?

COMMENT
Madonna King

Queensland's Channel Country is a world of colour seen by too few eyes.

Channel Country: The greatest show on Earth

COMMENT
Bill O'Chee

So-called "car yard" life insurance products paid out a meagre $6 million in claims, or 6.6 per cent of the $90 ...

The time has come for life insurers to get with the times

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Loo

Insurers can longer spy on you in the loo

CBD
Sarah Danckert

The Foscari development site at Truganina in Wyndham.

Truganina site sold as scam victims seek investments

Hills has stuck a $6 million deal to terminate its licensing agreement with Woolworths and its failed Masters hardware chain.

Woolworths hangs Hills out to dry after $6 million payment

7-Eleven closes stores in wake of wages scandal

Odd couple equities and bonds separate

Abacus Property Group forms $200m partnership

Consumer groups slam new life insurance code

28 Appin Street, Nanangan

Bargain two bedroom home sells for $77,500

Jason Quelch

Which award-winning holiday home would you choose?

Best holiday homes in Australia revealed

The auction crowd: Two per cent committed bidders, five per cent possible bidders, and 93 per cent sticky-beak neighbours.

The truth about the people you see at every auction

the block 2016

An expert renovator on how to design the perfect laundry

The property underwent major renovations in the mid-1990s.

Suburb's oldest home hits market

Jason Quelch

Banksy's former manager and friend Steve Lazarides has brought an unauthorised exhibition to Melbourne.

Who is Banksy? 'He's a miserable, scabby little git'

Arts

There's more to weight loss than losing weight.

21 truths we don't want to hear about losing weight

Boot Camp

Jockey Michelle Payne after winning the Melbourne Cup.

The odds on a Melbourne Cup day interest rate change

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine

Inappropriate incentives are at the heart of the banks' cultural problems. Illustration: Kerrie Leishman

Motley Fool: The elephant in the bank inquiry room

Scott Phillips

Rory Kennard, founder of Makinex.

This Australian company has a very rare goal

Alexandra Cain

Trent Innes, Xero Australia MD says we need more small businesses.

The surprising truth about starting a business today

Trent Innes

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Tostee trial: 'you beat me up'

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Man dies after jogger punch

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Man flees court to roof

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Thorburns: 'a family divided'

Shirin Gerami, Iran?s first female triathlete, celebrates as she completes the Ironman World Championship Triathlon, ...

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The hilarious Stan Original comedy No Activity, now streaming

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Every episode of The Circus now streaming on Stan.

Why more people are studying online

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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<i>Fraggle Rock</i> and its colourful characters are heading back to the screen.

Jim Henson's world of Fraggle Rock set to return to TV

Captured on tape: Billy Bush and Donald Trump discussing women.

Today may sack Billy Bush as fallout from Trump clip deepens

Michael Idato

Solange Knowles is not longer the lesser known little sister.

Solange Knowles steps out of Beyonce's shadow

COMMENT
Bernard Zuel

Huy Truong: "Our version of the Trump Mexican wall".

Shock value high as panel debate immigration and detention

ANALYSIS
Neil McMahon

Donald Trump "towered behind" Hillary Clinton as she answered some questions during the second debate.

There is something delicious about Trump-Clinton debates

Lenny Ann Low

Tom Cruise and Alibaba chief executive Jack Ma at the Shanghai premiere of <i>Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation</i>.

China's richest man teams up with Spielberg

Billy Bush will be kept from the broadcast on Monday.

Bush suspended by NBC over Trump offensive video

The Girl on the Train led North American theaters in ticket sales with $24.7 million, according to studio estimates ...

Hurricane Matthew threatened to derail movies at US box office

Patrick Ryan

More poster shots than mug shots now for Justin Bieber, who has announced a tour of Australia in 2017

Justin Bieber books Brisbane stadium show

Bernard Zuel

Singin' In the Rain

Singin' In The Rain delivers on promise

Review
Nathanael Cooper

Zoe Ventoura splits her time between Australia and the United States.

Zoe Ventoura back in grittier, darker series

Protest in France.

Imagine if Australian women went on strike

Clementine Ford

Bec Judd's followers dismayed by her skinny jeans post 11 days after giving birth to her twins boys.

Bec Judd's followers dismayed by post 11 days after giving birth

Amy Croffey

Peta Credlin hasn't abandoned Canberra life forever, she attended this year's Midwinter Ball at Parliament House.

Peta Credlin calls out 'gutless wonders' in Canberra

Jenna Clarke

"I want all governments to be scared of women," says Marta Lempart, Polish women's rights campaigner and lead of its ...

How the women of Poland pulled off a nationwide protest

Daisy Dumas

Kim has never really cared about her detractors.

Kim Kardashian dares to reflect the male gaze

Natalie Reilly

Prior to donning this outfit, Melania Trump said her husband's lewd comments about women were "unacceptable and offensive".

Melania Trump's silent rebellion at the second debate

Jenna Clarke

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

An otherwise bitter debate actually ended with kindness

Colby Itkowitz

"I remember the shame:" Actor Amber Tamblyn shares story of sexual assault after Trump tape.

'I was grabbed under my skirt': Actress shares sexual assault

Elahe Izadi

The rules of water? There's only one.

Don't drink eight glasses of water a day - do this instead

Sarah Berry

Fibromyalgia: "It's soul-destroying because so little is known about it". Photo: iStock

The soothing sip that saved me from a life of agony

Charlotte Lytton

Fit to fight? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

How Donald and Hillary fuel themselves to fight each other

Three Blue Ducks chefs at Rosebery.

The Three Blue Ducks' guide to barbecuing like a legend

Myffy Rigby

Look for protein and fibre for the longest-lasting sense of satisfaction.

A nutritionist rates your favourite packaged snacks

Bonnie Sutherland

The Katering Show will get a free to air debut on the ABC next year.

The Katering Show answers your cooking questions

KATE MCCARTNEY AND KATE MCLENNAN

People wearing clown outfits have been terrorising residents in America.

Creepy clown 'scares woman into premature labour'

Cat Rodie

Paul Van Der Toorren proposed to his girlfriend of seven years, Elysia Simons, at Uluru, the place they first met as ...

Wedding bells for pair who met as children, filming iconic Qantas ad

Suzi Catchpole

Gabi Shull was determined to dance on pointe again.

Teen defies odds to become ballet dancer after leg amputation

Adella Beaini

The plane's dining room and bar.

Inside the world's most luxurious passenger plane

Kylie McLaughlin

The epic, 9289 kilometre-long Trans-Siberian railway is now 100 years old.

The world's longest railway line, 9289 km, is now 100 years old

Don't waste your time and money on a bad tour.

Worst. Tour guide. Ever. When that 'bargain' isn't one at all

Ben Groundwater

The ill-fated Galaxy Note7 is no longer being made, and Samsung has asked that it is no longer sold.

'Power down': It's all over for the Note7

Tim Biggs

Sony Xperia XZ gets Aussie launch details

Tim Biggs

Gears of War 4 review

Gears of War 4 review: the original and still the best

Tim Biggs

The web is rife with annoyances.

Browser extensions to make web less annoying

Alan Henry

A US plane was evacuated last week after a phone caught fire.

Three new Note7s catch fire in one week

Tim Biggs

Ford has paused Mustang production in the wake of reduced demand in the US.

Ford shuts Mustang factory

2017 Kia Soul.

Kia cuts Soul price

Dom Tripolone

The BMW M3 Competition.

BMW M3 Competition reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Spy shots of the Opel Insignia testing in Europe.

Commodore may get drift mode

Stephen Ottley

Volkswagen Scirocco.

Last VW Sciroccos to go on sale

Dom Tripolone

2016 HSV Clubsport R8 Track Edition.

HSV Clubsport Track Edition review

Mark Short

Milos Raonic celebrates his win over Roger Federer in the Brisbane International final in January.

Milos Raonic returns to defend Brisbane International title

Phillip Hughes died two days after being hit on the head by a short ball during a Sheffield Shield game in 2014.

The answer that had the Hughes family shaking their heads

Andrew Webster

Rooney's previous game against Malta was pleasing, says Southgate.

Under-fire Rooney dropped for Slovenia game

Matthew Wade: Fined 25 percent of his match fee for sledging.

No backing down from Australians on 'sledging': Harris

Nick Kyrgios collects his third tour trophy of the year in Japan.

Is it time to start loving Nick Kyrgios?

ANALYSIS
Phil Lutton

A League

$6 from a $120 jersey: Why A-League clubs have their hands out

Dominic Bossi

The former world no.1 says he is not out of the woods yet.

Woods says he's not ready to take on world's best

The Wallabies and All Blacks are big drawcards when they head north for November tours and the SANZAAR nations want that ...

The one issue on which Australia and NZ are on the same team

Georgina Robinson