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RACQ general manager Paul Turner

Queensland budget reactions: RACQ blasts rego hike

Tony Moore
1 hr ago

Treasurer Curtis Pitt in Parliament on budget day 2017.

It's described as a 'jobs bonanza' but will the budget deliver?

Felicity Caldwell
20 mins ago

Logan mayor Luke Smith says his sizable donations don't influence his council decisions.

Logan mayor denies his donors hold influence

Sarah Motherwell

First-home buyers are one of the big winners from Tuesday's Queensland state budget.

Why first-home buyers are among the state budget winners

Ellen Lutton

A Woodridge man has been arrested over the 2015 death of a two-year-old boy found unconscious in a Logan home.

Toddler allegedly murdered was known to child safety dept

Jorge Branco

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the anticipation ahead of Brisbane City Council budget reminded him of Christmas.

BCC budget: Wish lists written ahead of 'Christmas'

Ruth McCosker
1 hr ago

What's in state budget for the south-east?

Tony Moore

Katter calls on LNP to block Queensland budget

In cyclone-battered budget, Premier banks on jobs to keep her own

Felicity Caldwell

Hanson drops case against ABC, forced to pay legal costs

Michaela Whitbourn
5 mins ago

At a glance: The Queensland budget

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

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Covfefe Law: Anything Trump tweets can be used against him

ANALYSIS
Amber Phillips

Overheight truck at Arthur St, Granville. A timely reminder to always be aware of height restrictions. Photo: NSW Police ...

Beer truck veers, stuck

Roxane Gay described the Mamamia podcast as "a shit show".

'Cruel and humiliating': Author on treatment by Mamamia

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'Support users': Radical plan by ex-AFP boss to beat the drug trade

COMMENT

The Batcave-like tunnel which spans 50 metres and leads to a 10-car garage at 128 Crosby Road, Ascot.

The Brisbane mansion that's worthy of Batman

50 mins ago

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Plays of the Week

A new report prepared for the Queen's Wharf Brisbane project says Pokemon Go could inspire part of the development's ...

Modern technology to share old tales behind Queen's Wharf

Green turtles swimming in the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.

Great Barrier Reef turtles carrying drug-resistant superbugs

Gonski Review panellist Greiner joins push for ...

8:43PM

Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth

8:42PM

Tensions erupt in Turnbull government over ...

8:40PM

State Treasurer Curtis Pitt at the 2017 Queensland budget lock-up on Tuesday.

Queensland 2017-18 budget shows an additional 6000 public servants

Tony Moore

Study to investigate how to fix deadly road for cyclists

Felicity Caldwell

Qld govt to add $2 billion for Cross River Rail

Jorge Branco

It is not known what type of acid was used in the armed robbery.

Man armed with acid robs Aspley club

David Sigston

Subcontractors are pricing apprentices out of jobs, according to Apprenticeships Queensland.

Industry calls for apprenticeship assistance in state budget

Tony Moore

The proposed Toondah Harbour project has been given the go-ahead to proceed to the EIS stage.

Cleveland's Toondah Harbour project to proceed to EIS stage

UPDATED
Tony Moore

Sam Goddard before his series of strokes in 2010.

Sam wasn't meant to survive the night - that was seven years ago

Toby Crockford

Police caught up with the alleged kidnapper almost 400km from Sydney.

Teen in terrifying ordeal after alleged kidnapping

NSW

A Woodridge man has been arrested over the 2015 death of a two-year-old boy found unconscious in a Logan home.

Police arrest man over death of two-year-old boy

UPDATED

Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd.

Five-point plan to get public servants to show up

ACT

Brisbane was forecast to receive about 50 millimetres of rain on Tuesday, with heavier falls expected on the Gold Coast.

Heavy rain, winds close in on south-east Queensland

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 27: Australian Greens Leader, Dr Richard Di Natale speaks to the media at Federation Square ...

Medicinal cannabis rules loosened after Senate gangs up on government

Adam Gartrell

Federal government debt surges past half-a-trillion dollars

Eryk Bagshaw
7 mins ago

Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny
3 mins ago

One of the two new Australian Joint Strike Fighters at the Avalon Airshow

Australia's next generation fighter jets starve pilots of oxygen

Adam Gartrell

Senator Pauline Hanson will pay the ABC's legal costs after dropping a case against the broadcaster.

Hanson drops case against ABC, forced to pay broadcaster's costs

5 mins ago

The Coalition will hold a special meeting on climate change policy on Tuesday.

Government to hold crunch party room meeting on climate

4 mins ago

Malcolm Turnbull joined the chorus of outrage after this week's terror attack in Brighton.

As it happened: the day in Canberra politics

Tammy Davis-Charles is in a Phnom Penh jail awaiting trial.

Nurse angrily denies Cambodia surrogacy allegations

Craig Skehan

Donald Trump

Covfefe as law: Anything Trump tweets can be used against him

ANALYSIS

Five-year-old Mohannad Ali lies on a hospital bed in Abs, Yemen, in December. His two-year-old cousin died of hunger.

Senate opposition to Saudi arms deal grows

Residents of a Qatari-funded housing complex in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis hold a banner in Arabic reading "we ...

Israel approves move to cut electricity to Gaza Strip

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves Labour headquarters. The city-country divide makes Corbyn's path to power complicated.

UK election result is bad news for Australian pollies

Brenton Prosser and Gerry Stokes

Paul Pisasale's career has featured numerous investigations and allegations of inappropriately receiving and failing to ...

How much can politicians receive before they must declare it?

Alison and Jillian Barrett

Senior Constable Brett Forte's children Sam, Emma and Brodie place a teddy bear and other items on his casket during his ...

Thank you Brett Forte, and your brothers and sisters in blue

Madonna King

Lachlan Murdoch could be caught by the two-out-of-three media rules, and James Packer has no interest in the media.

Ten Network scrambles to escape corporate undertaker

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Ansell found some support from Morgan Stanley this week, sending its shares soaring.

ASX has best day in seven months

Myriam Robin

Luke Baylis of SumoSalad

Salad days no more: SumoSalad battles Westfield

Madeleine Heffernan

Grace Mazur came across Thermomix on a visit to an old school friend's house in Poland.

Cracks in the $60 million cult of Thermomix

Cara Waters

Investors' short-term mindset 'destroying capital'

Myriam Robin

Turbulent times for RBA, but no reason to assume crash landing

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Ten in trading halt as board mulls debt options

UPDATED
Lucy Battersby

Crown's detained China staff charged with gambling offences

UPDATED

The Batcave-like tunnel which spans 50 metres and leads to a 10-car garage at 128 Crosby Road, Ascot.

Holy Batman! The Brisbane mansion that's worthy of Bruce Wayne

50 mins ago

A terrace overlooks the Amalfi coast.

Inside the villa once owned by one of the richest people on Earth

First-home buyers are one of the big winners from Tuesday's Queensland state budget.

Why first-home buyers are among the Qld state budget winners

Babies as housemates - make noise all hours, don't pull their weight when it comes to the washing up.

Andrew P. Street: How do you baby-proof a rental?

Opinion

Architectural trends have inspired a resurgence of colour in home furnishings.

The bidet is back: The biggest trends from Denfair 2017

The new Lexus coupe will come in a hybrid (pictured) and V8 version.

The fuel-saving $200k sports car buyers don't want

Cars

The bridge is the latest must-have detail.

Make sure your next pair of sunnies has this one feature

Accessories

Running the economy is like being a pilot in a modern aircraft: there are lots of gauges and controls.

Turbulent times for Reserve Bank, but no reason for crash landing

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Capital losses can offset capital gains.

Why June is a bloody month for under-performing stocks

Marcus Padley

Tomcar co-founder David Brim in Melbourne.

Australia's last car maker is taking their lead from Tesla

Cara Waters

Running a bed and breakfast didn't turn out to be as lucrative for this reader.

'We never got close to making the GST threshold'

Max Newnham

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'Sick and tired': Premier's budget speech

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Parcel bomb explodes at South Korean university

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Man clings to skyscraper 100m above street

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Network Ten in trading halt

In this Monday, June 5, 2017, file photo, Indians reach to get a cold drink being freely distributed on a hot summer day ...

World of Photos, June 13, 2017

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The brand new season of Better Call Saul - now streaming on Stan.

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks is now streaming. Only on Stan.

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Taylor Swift's lazy year has seen her fall down Forbes' richest celebrities list.

Taylor Swift free-falls from top of Celebrity Rich List

Rob Moran

Monday night's Q&A focused on energy policy.

A carbon tax by any other name would smell as sweet: Q&A;

Neil McMahon

Season four of The Bachelor spinoff 'Bachelor in Paradise' has been suspended indefinitely.

Bachelor spinoff's future in doubt

Broede Carmody

Stop the clock: House Rules competition suspended by Cyclone Debbie.

House Rules suspended for first time ever due to Cyclone Debbie

Aja Styles

Laura Dreyfuss and Ben Platt in the Pasek and Paul musical Dear Evan Hansen at the Second Stage Theatre in New York.

How the Tony Awards dictate our live entertainment diet

ANALYSIS
Nathanael Cooper

Actress Rowena Wallace.

Rowena Wallace hopes crowdfunding will relaunch career

Broede Carmody

Kevin Spacey performs at the 71st annual Tony Awards.

Blanchett, Minchin miss out on awards at Spacey's Tonys

Broede Carmody

Katy Perry at an event.

Katy Perry undertakes bizarre livestream of her life

Joey Pucino

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 10: Izzy attends the Madman Anime Festival Brisbane on June 10, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. ...

Thousands of anime fans flock to Madman Brisbane festival

Toby Crockford

The LEGO Expo, and nine other things to do this weekend

Katie Noonan with her childhood music teacher Michael Mangan.

How Katie Noonan inspired her music teacher to tour

Rachel Clun

Roxane Gay described the Mamamia podcast as "a shit show".

'Cruel and humiliating': author Roxane Gay on treatment by Mamamia

Jenny Noyes

There are more and more people embracing polyamory with the enthusiasm that I reserve for napping, writes Kerri Sackville.

The rise of polyamory sure isn't convincing me to try it

COMMENT
Kerri Sackville

Bella Hadid doing her bit to make tiny glasses happen.

Alert: small glasses are back in fashion, RIP your peripheral vision

Mary Ward

"The cards never lie, and they never let me lie."

I have autism and tarot cards help me make sense of the world

Madeleine Ryan

Elle Macpherson and husband Jeffrey Soffer in May 2015.

Elle Macpherson 'splits' from husband Jeff Soffer, reports

Amy Croffey

Reem Allouche, left, and Atika Latifi, from the Women of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, use a sivaak, or small stick, to ...

Explainer: What Islam actually says about domestic violence

Nada Ibrahim

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial.

Bill Cosby trial shocker: Defence rests after just 6 minutes

Serena shared a picture of her growing baby bump on Snapchat.

Hell yes to Serena's candid documentation of her pregnancy

Mary Ward

Too much sugar, regardless of the type, is a problem.

Fructose is not the worst type of sugar

Sarah Berry

Taking the first step can result in a ripple effect.

Using the 'ripple effect' to achieve health goals

Evelyn Lewin

Addictive or just enjoyable?

Cheese: is it addictive? This doctor thinks so

Paula Goodyer

Andhraiites typically eat fiery hot food, but this prawn curry packs a lot of flavours too!

Curry in a hurry: Whip up these easy curries in 30 minutes

Right first dine: Scrambled eggs on toasted wholegrain bread.

Chefs reveal how they tweak their scrambled eggs to perfection

Crispy skin barra with mint peas and brussels with bacon peas mint and brussels at Three Blue Ducks in Sydney.

Lemon butter barramundi: The trick to cooking perfect crispy skin

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Baby, it's cold outside: 6 challenges of having a winter bub

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Attention dads: why you need to read Facebook posts when your partner tags you

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Primary school excludes 10-year-old girl with her period

The new 'World Class' ship from MSC Cruises promises to be the world's biggest.

6850 passengers: New cruise giant will be world's biggest

Could Ben Groundwater been Japan's new Mr Sparkle? It's possible.

I was just being a tourist, then a local film crew showed up

Ben Groundwater

Abandoned ferris wheel in amusement park in Pripyat, Chernobyl.

Hostel opens in the most radioactive place on the planet

Hugh Morris

The upcoming PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man game closed Sony's pre-E3 conference.

PlayStation showcase is all games at E3

Details offered in search results include price, airline, duration and stopovers.

Google targets travel market with Flights

Beyond Good and Evil 2 was finally confirmed at the event, to great applause.

Ubisoft confirms its own Mario game and Beyond Good and Evil 2

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Sprint Telco fined for pretending to be Telstra

Gizmodo

Despite Monday's fall in price, bitcoin still was up more 170 per cent so far this year.

Digital currency frenzy crashes Coinbase trade

2013 Mazda CX-5

What is the best used SUV?

Cameron McGavin

2017 Nissan Navara ST dual-cab 4x4 diesel auto.

Tradie review: New Nissan Navara

Mark Short

2018 Hyundai Kona.

Hyundai's new SUV revealed

Toby Hagon

Opel badge

Opel CEO quits amid PSA deal

Andreas Cremer

Porsche's new GT2 RS features in Forza Motorsport 7.

Revealed: Porsche's fastest 911 yet

David McCowen

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Asia Pacific managing director George Biggs poses for a photo at the launch of / the ...

McLaren 720S arrives in Australia

Drive

Big Bash League broadcaster Channel Ten is in crisis.

Ten's crisis more reason to keep pay model, say cricketers

Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Matildas Kyah Simon, Michelle Heyman and Clare Polkinghorne in Canberra.

Women's World Cup would be a huge boost

Michael Lynch

Sam Warburton celebrates on the sideline with teammates following their 12-3 win over the Crusaders.

Gesture that makes Warburton one of the great Lions captains

Mick Cleary

Leading from the front: Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed steered his side to victory.

England beware: rival can't bat, can't field but can bowl

Scyld Berry

The federal government is backing an Australian Women's World Cup bid.

Australia to bid for 2023 Women's World Cup

NBA Finals

Warriors look to clinch in NBA Finals series

Matt Bungard

Sensational: Johnathan Thurston is in red-hot form and ready to take on the Blues.

Now that's a team: Daley praise for new-look Maroons side

Michael Chammas

Ben Nguyen reacts after taking the win at UFC Auckland.

Brisbane battler to soar into flyweight top 10 with UFC win

Liam Ducey