Queensland
Supermarkets
Queensland's plastic bag ban is official, along with recycling refund
Plastic shopping bags will be banned in Queensland from July next year, following the passage of a long-heralded bill through Parliament on Tuesday night.
- by Jorge Branco
Opinion & Perspectives
Sign of the times: one standard for regular people, another for MPs
As your regular, every day, garden-variety human is being forced to hop through more and more hoops to successfully interact with the government, standards appear to be as relaxed as ever for MPs.
Judith Ireland
What rugby union needs most right now is unity, not an un-civil war
These last weeks have given us some positive signs that a brighter future for our beloved code beckons. But not without changes.
Peter FitzSimons
Australia is stuck in its own Utopia: a lot of irrelevant hustle but no progress
Our static, outdated, parliamentary democracy is no longer working.
Nicholas Stuart
Politics
South-east Queensland
'Free tours' of Brisbane hurting private tourism operators: businesses
Questions are being asked of Brisbane Marketing promoting 'free tours' in competition to private tourism businesses who pay Brisbane Marketing to help them.
- by Tony Moore
Courts
MP calls for whistleblower protection
"It may be that every generation needs its Fitzgerald inquiry and we clearly need another one here to clean up the corruption that we see emerging."
- by Ed Jackson
South-East Queensland
Education
P&C Queensland minutes reveal biggest issues for state schools in 1947
- by Amy Mitchell-Whittington
South-east Queensland
Police dog Jeru killed after he was hit by car in a training exercise
- by Amy Mitchell-Whittington
