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Brisbane's townhouse ban is one step closer to coming into effect.

Brisbane ban on 'cookie-cutter' townhouses could be enforced by July

Brisbane's townhouse ban is one step closer to coming into effect.

Townhouses may no longer be welcome in Brisbane’s character suburbs.

  • by Lydia Lynch and Lucy Stone

Stolen car full of teens ran red light before fatal crash: Police

The crash at the intersection of Anzac Avenue and Wattle Street in Rothwell.

A sedan stolen from a shopping centre by joyriding teenagers had raced through a red light before the fatal accident north of Brisbane, police allege.

  • by Toby Crockford

Brisbane City Council fields fewer than 500 complaints about e-scooters

A Lime scooter user on the streets of Brisbane.

The council said more than 70 complaints were about the safety of pedestrians.

  • by Lucy Stone

Mueller breaks his silence on Russia probe in shock press conference

Special counsel Robert Muller made his first public comments on his two-year investigation.

After remaining silent during his two-year investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has made his first public statement on the Russia investigation.

  • by Matthew Knott

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UQ students vote No to the proposed private degree course offered to the University of Queensland by the Ramsay Centre.

UQ students loudly vote 'No' to private degree program

Almost 500 University of Queensland students on Wednesday night met to demand students run a replacement Schonell Theatre and voted 'No' to the proposed Ramsay Centre courses.

  • by Tony Moore
Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce want bolder changes.
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'Folau's law': Coalition MPs push for bolder action for religious freedom

Conservative Coalition MPs want more radical religious freedom provisions.

  • by Michael Koziol
Police are looking for a 10-year-old and two women (Shae Francis, left, Jessie Hames, right) all missing from south-east Queensland.

Schoolgirl and two women missing from south-east Qld

A 10-year-old Logan girl was last seen wearing her Woodridge North State School uniform.

  • by Lydia Lynch
The cash rate could go as low as 0.5 per cent to help the economy along.

Rates could fall to 0.5% amid warnings of GFC-like slow-up

The economy may be growing at its slowest since the depths of the global financial crisis.

  • by Shane Wright and Lucy Battersby
Qld freezes coal royalties, saving coal miners billions

Qld freezes coal royalties, saving coal miners billions

But Treasurer Jackie Trad said she hoped mining companies would contribute $70 million to a regional fund.

  • by Lydia Lynch
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Invested in Noosa? You may not be able to holiday-let your property for long

Invested in Noosa? You may not be able to holiday-let your property for long

A local council plan to ban party houses and holiday lettings in certain parts of Noosa could have serious ramifications for the local property market.

  • by Ellen Lutton
'Changed psychology': Early signs of confidence returning to market

'Changed psychology': Early signs of confidence returning to market

With the Reserve Bank poised to cut interest rates, new data shows an uptick in appraisals and open home attendance.

  • by Tawar Razaghi

Business

Investors continue to be pessimistic as trade talks drag on.

'Nobody knows what is going to happen': Wall Street hits three-month low

Trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world showed little signs of relaxing, sending Wall Street lower.

  • by Vildana Hajric and Jeremy Herron

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Entertainment

Adam Goodes visits his ancestral lands in the documentary The Australian Dream.

Adam Goodes doco The Australian Dream to open Melbourne Film Festival

Journalist Stan Grant and AFL legend Adam Goodes help tell a story that's about far more than footy.

  • by Karl Quinn
David McAllister will leave the Australian Ballet at the end of the 2020 season.

'It will be strange': David McAllister on leaving the Australian Ballet

After two decades at the helm, the acclaimed dancer and artistic director is ready to pass on the baton.

  • by Nathanael Cooper

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I use this question to check in with my spouse, and it's changed our relationship

I use this question to check in with my spouse. It's changed our relationship

My answer was immediate and definitive, surprising even me.

  • by Katharine Stahl
The included lightsaber looks and feels great when you activate it in AR.
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Headset lets you become a Jedi, wield a lightsaber in augmented reality

The device may now be two years old, but a price drop and updated software makes it worth a second look.

  • by Tim Biggs

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Sport

One last rivalry?: Latrell Mitchell and Will Chambers during last year's State of Origin series at ANZ Stadium.

ANZ Stadium could retain Origin clash next year

A delay to the initial timetable for the redevelopment of ANZ Stadium has triggered a push for it to remain open until State of Origin next year.

  • by Adam Pengilly
Chelsea celebrate with the trophy after winning the Europa League final.

Chelsea destroy Arsenal to win Europa League final

Eden Hazard and Olivier Giroud have torn apart Arsenal in the space of 23 second-half minutes to give Chelsea a 4-1 win in the Europa League final.

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