Brisbane Times - Brisbane News, Queensland News & World News

7:18AM Sat Nov 19, 2016

SMH Shop
Our Network
News and Weather

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Age

Brisbane Times

Canberra Times

WA Today

Weather Zone
Business and Finance

AFR.com

afrmagazine.com.au
Lifestyle

traveller.com.au

essentialbaby.com.au

essentialkids.com.au

goodfood.com.au

oversixty.com.au

findababysitter.com.au
Classifieds

domain.com.au

drive.com.au

commercialrealestate

allhomes.com.au

adzuna.com.au

rsvp.com.au

Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud.

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

Sarah Danckert

The Queensland Rail board approved bonuses in September, which were paid out in October, amid driver shortage issues.

QR paid bonuses as chaos consumed network

Felicity Caldwell

A victim of the Springvale fire nurses her injured son.

Melbourne bank fire: scenes of chaos as dozens injured in blaze

Bianca Hall, Chloe Booker, Tom Cowie, Marissa Calligeros, Julia Medew

Jenna Louise Driscoll lashing out at Fairfax Media's photographer outside the Brisbane Watch House in April last year.

Woman had sex with dog to arouse partner: court

Darren Cartwright

KOMSAN KWANKAEW, 43, STILL EMPLOYED AT THE CHATREE GOLD MINE, THE MAN WHO POURED THE FIRST GOLD AND SILVER BAR IN 2001. ...

The Aussie gold mine Thailand is closing down

Lindsay Murdoch

Charged: Faf du Plessis seen rubbing the ball with a lolly in his mouth.

South African skipper Du Plessis charged with ball tampering

Andrew Wu

Englishman dies in another diving death on Great Barrier Reef

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Former SAS trooper breaks down telling Senate inquiry of brother's attempted suicide

Michael Koziol

The most dangerous person on the planet isn't who you think

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

Gold Coast drug kingpin sentenced to 10 years behind bars

Darren Cartwright

Make Australia Great Again: Trump effect takes hold

Michael Koziol

The residents of Osbourne Court, Loganholme, from left: From left: Devon Deverinne, Debbie Olsen, Joanne Ashworth, Val ...

Neighbours unite to sell their street to developers

Ellen Lutton

GENERIC AFR PHOTOGRAPH BY GLENN HUNT 31st January 2014. GENERIC- myer, RETAIL, SHOPPING,

Myer to close more stores in Qld

Crows at Griffith University have built their nest in the building, rather than in the surrounding trees.

Brisbane bird expert witnesses 'big evolutionary change' in crows

Must Do Brisbane: Women in Voice.

Top 10 weekend Brisbane events

Wallabies ambitions: James O'Connor's motivation to play Test rugby again has "flipped to a new level".

'I want to be a Wallaby': O'Connor

EXCLUSIVE

null

Driver demands Queen's signature

The Gold Coast's population is expected to swell by up to 35,000 teenagers.

Gold Coast to host 8000 employees of Chinese business

MyBT: Pulled pork.

I despised pulled pork. Now I have joined the craze

Joyce sending Murray to 'certain slow death', ...

7:14AM

Aung San Suu Kyi criticised as Myanmar denies ...

7:02AM

Why just about everyone's happy when bond yields ...

6:20AM

Agincourt Reef on the outskirts of the Great Barrier Reef.

Man dead after scuba diving incident off Great Barrier Reef

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Pilot alive but injured after helicopter crash in far north Queensland

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Gold Coast drug kingpin gets 10 years

Darren Cartwright

Aaron Flynn has been missing since last Friday

Land, air search underway for missing man after vehicle found

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Asylum seeker Mojgan Shamsalipoor accepts her Year 12 certificate at the Yeronga State High School awards night.

Tears as Brisbane asylum seeker finally gets to graduate school

Felicity Caldwell

BLK provides gear to Gold Coast Titans.

Company in charge of BLK assets assures 'business as usual'

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

The Sunshine Coast Airport is undergoing expansion.

Sunshine Coast Airport upgrade gets $181m

Audits of Queensland theme parks are on track to finish at the end of November.

Minister says she'd take her family to Dreamworld

Diplomats and their dependents in the ACT will now have their licences suspended if they accumulate a certain number of ...

Diplomats lose immunity from road rules

ACT

A Perth woman has warned others not to allow unqualified nail salon workers to use blades after her toe was sliced open ...

Woman who had toe sliced warns of nail salon danger

WA

Brothers for Life gang founder Bassam Hamzy.

Love letters 'used to pass messages to gang members'

NSW

Peter Dutton said Malcolm Fraser made mistakes bringing some people to Australia in the 1970s.

'Cheap': Hewson slams Dutton over Fraser criticism

Tom McIlroy

Shorten claim of a million foreign workers questioned

James Massola

Playing to prejudices does politicians no credit

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

The creators of fake news quickly found it was more profitable to create stories that played to the views of Donald ...

The Trump effect takes hold Down Under

Michael Koziol

Barnaby Joyce spoke to Chris Smith.

'Sack Joyce for reneging on Murray-Darling promise'

4 mins ago

Fairfax Media revealed up to 60 per cent of students at some universities were being admitted below the advertised ...

An unlikely alliance: Victoria and NSW fight school funding changes

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton

Dutton turns attack on legacy of former Liberal prime minister

Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi – widely regarded as the country's de facto leader.

Aung San Suu Kyi under attack as Myanmar denies killing Rohingya

16 mins ago

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, earlier this week.

Pro-democracy arrests in Malaysia ahead of anti-Razak rally

Dubai has established a glitzy reputation as a holiday and stopover destination.

UK woman charged in Dubai after reporting her own rape

An injured man is carried in a blanket in the town of Caphiridzange, Mozambique after the tanker exploded.

Three days of mourning in Mozambique after explosion kills dozens

Schoolies week kicks off on the Gold Coast this weekend.

A letter to our year 12 school leavers

COMMENT
Madonna King

Republican president-elect Donald Trump.

How a Trump or a Brexit could happen to us

John Birmingham

Oppopsition leader Tim Nicholls is trailing in the preferred Premier stakes.

Twitter tells us why Tim Nicholls lags

COMMENT
John Harrison

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud.

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

Simon Crowe, Founder of Grill d.

Grill'd in court: inside a big-league bun fight

Since it was floated in 1983, the Australian dollar tends to move up or down in ways that limit inflation pressure and ...

How little Oz rolls with the economic punches

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Workers pay price as charities turn their back

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Food delivery businesses the new retail disrupters

Bringing the bling: jewellery's new carat patch

Co-working spaces are the new office model

This knock down in Hamilton is for sale for offers over $2.95 million.

Hamilton knock-down seeking offers over $2.95m

It's not always easy to find the perfect housemate.

Six common share-house dwellers and how to handle them

Oversupply in Brisbane's inner city apartment market has created lots of availability for renters.

Why Brisbane tenants now hold the power

ANALYSIS
Ellen Lutton

New research from Airbnb shows that more than 15 per cent of hosts are allowing pets to book in with their owners.

Australia's most popular pet-friendly Airbnb listings

Robert Marsden Petty is 20 and is already settling on his third investment property.

How a 20-year-old bought three investment properties

The Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet.

10 game-changing new cars that everyone's talking about

Luxury cars

IPAs come with a stronger hops flavour.

The unstoppable rise of Australia's new favourite beer

Fine Drinks

Men are less likely to seek treatment for depression, and this can intensify the associated problems.

The money problems most likely to affect men

<P>

What type of private pension should we take?

Matt Schneider says Optika employs a high ratio of employees with autism or Asperger's syndrome who, with unconventional ...

Secrets from Australia's top innovators

Kate Jones

An envelope of cash for a business venture could be an investment in your child's future.

The best $5000 you could spend on your kid's future?

Tony Featherstone

null

Woman drives into river

null

Bernie Sanders on Democrats' loss to Trump

null

Murder accused fronts police with shotgun

null

Mum changes nappies on cafe table

School students show off their Beatle haircuts in Gordon in Sydney's north on 25 February 1964, the year of The Beatles' ...

Rewind - Subcultures

Good Behaviour

Michelle Dockery as you've never seen her before. Good Behaviour now streaming on Stan.

seinfeld

Every single episode of Seinfeld now streaming. Only on Stan.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

Advertiser Content

One person makes all the difference for foster kids

Advertiser Content

Hit the road and escape the city

Advertiser

Metallica, the kid-friendly version.

Metallica plays Enter Sandman on kids' toys on Jimmy Fallon

Rob Moran

Meryl Streep's move to the small screen has scored her a massive payday.

Meryl Streep set to earn over $1m per episode for new TV series

Rob Moran

Luke McGregor says humour helped give him self worth while growing up.

We watched his sexual journey, now Luke McGregor has a partner

Kylie Northover

Neil Patrick Harris plays the evil Count Olaf, guardian of the orphaned Baudelaire children.

Lemony Snicket's series trailer shows whimsy and doom

Sarah Thomas

Actress Shelley Duvall on Dr Phil.

Dr Phil slammed for 'exploiting Shelley Duvall's mental illness'

Rob Moran

Leonard Cohen in concert at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena, 2009.

For Leonard Cohen, the end came with a fall in the night

BEN SISARIO

Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis).

Miss Fisher headed for the big screen?

Ebony Bowden

Suranne Jones in <i>Doctor Foster:</i> Hell has no fury.

Is this one of TV's most perfect opening episodes?

Bridget McManus

Reindeer in Brisbane's CBD? Christmas must be around the corner.

What Brisbane will unwrap for Christmas season

Felicity Caldwell

British band James, with Jim Glennie, third from left, and frontman Tim Booth centre

James impress in their first-ever Australian gig

Cameron Atfield

Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez kick started his 2016 Australian tour at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Friday night.

Rodriguez kicks off his 2016 Australian tour in Brisbane

Cameron Atfield

This is a teeny tiny breaking of beauty chains, because nobody - nobody - should tell women what to do.

Five beauty rules that are crying out to be broken

Natalie Reilly

St Paul's College at Sydney University.

Sexual assault is a campus, not just a college, problem

COMMENT
Mary Ward

Death is a huge part of life and the more you know about it, the better off you are.

How embracing death can make our lives richer

Daisy Dumas

Ruby Rose and Jess Origliasso's relationship was rekindled on the set of On Your Side.

Why the Veronicas latest video is groundbreaking

Nicole Economos

Celeste Barber

The beauty up-sell that went too far

Celeste Barber

THE GOOD: Hailee Steinfeld = making Keith Haring-inspired yellow sequins look effortless since 2016. The 19-year-old ...

Best & worst dressed celebrities of the week

"Everything in India just seems more. Louder. Brighter. Busier." And more unequal, writes Ruby Hamad. Here, West ...

What a trip to India taught me about my own privilege

Ruby Hamad

Moving out of home can be daunting

5 things your parents didn't tell you before you left home

Sponsored

A pizza from Al Taglio.

Why pizza is a health food

Sarah Berry

Makda Haji.

The extraordinary story of one runner

Sarah Berry

Walk before you run... or after.

Not getting enough out of running races? Walk.

Vicky Hallett

Adam Liaw's crunchy lamingtons (with rice bubbles).

Perfect match: 32 chocolate and coconut recipes

Anthony Bourdain demonstrating his appetites ahead of his book <i>Appetites</i>.

'Bad boy, coke-snorting, man-slut' no more. What Anthony Bourdain did next

Three ingredient canapes for summer entertaining. Styling: Sharnee Rawson and Neela Shearer.

10 easy three-ingredient canapes

Chrissy Tiegen

Chrissy Tiegen gets real about weight loss

Allie Casazza with her four children.

How giving away most of her kids' toys helped one mum gain control of her life

Ariane Beeston

Audrey Nicole's daughter pictured with her dad's girlfriend.

Mum's uplifting post on the "other woman" in her daughter's life

The Hume Highway is the fastest transport route between Sydney and Melbourne.

Sydney to Melbourne by road: The nine best stops along the Hume

Penny Watson

Singapore Airlines disappointed a Traveller reader.

Traveller letters: Singapore's service 'completely frustrating'

A barbecue at Los Angeles' famous Venice Beach is one of the Airbnb experiences on offer.

Airbnb is about to change the way you travel, again

Sarah Theeboom

The Mini is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

Mini NES is more than just a nostalgic novelty

Tim Biggs

David Irvine, former head of both ASIO and ASIS, said savings from offshore storage could be dwarfed by the liabilities ...

Former spy boss' advice on Mumbai cyber breach

David Ellery

Amazon granted Aussies access to Prime Video just in time to watch The Grand Tour.

Amazon Prime Video arrives in Australia just in time

COMMENT

earthvr

Google Earth in virtual reality looks incredible

Kotaku

Twice the GPU power, bumped up CPU, same PS4 games.

Review: PlayStation 4 gets powered up

Tim Biggs

Mazda rotary-powered RX-Vision concept.

Mazda plots rotary sports car return

Stephen Ottley

Porsche is set to offer a manual gearbox again on its 911 GT3 road racer

Manual returns to Porsche 911 GT3

Andrew MacLean

The Mazda MX-5 returns to defend its Best Convertible crown, but faces some stiff competition from some iconic models, ...

What is the best convertible?

Andrew MacLean

Subaru has unveiled the VIZIV-7 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) concept at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. Subaru Viziv-7 ...

Subaru concept to target Kluger

David McCowen

Jeep? Compass Trailhawk 2017 Jeep Compass.

New Jeep Compass revealed

Peter McKay

Tesla's latest car is incredibly quick.

Tesla Model S to go even faster

David McCowen

Charged: Faf du Plessis seen rubbing the ball with a lolly in his mouth.

Du Plessis charged as team mates leap to his defence

Andrew Wu

Burning desire: James O'Connor has not given up hope of a Test return.

'I want to be playing for the Wallabies': O'Connor

EXCLUSIVE
Tom Decent

Ankle injury: Quade Cooper didn't train this week, but may well play.

Cooper under injury cloud for Test against France

Tom Decent

Possible farewell: Coach Tony Popovic has repeatedly been linked with Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua.

Wanderers furious over controversial decision

Dominic Bossi

Committed: Usain Bolt will take part in the Nitro Athletic series for the next three years.

Bolt to run in Australia for next three years

Michael Gleeson

Contender for Essendon's pick 1: Hugh McCluggage has class, creates space and kicks goals from the midfield.

AFL draft 2016: Club-by-club guide, part one

Emma Quayle

Fighting back: David Pocock has spent his own money defending his reputation against online slurs.

Bogus site claims to expose Wallaby skipper's 'dirty secret'

Georgina Robinson

Bowing out gracefully: Peter Senior.

Peter Senior quits golf midway through Australian Open

Adam Pengilly