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Cryptocurrency was considered a type of asset like a property that people may have to pay capital gains tax (CGT) on.

More than 100 lose $2.7m in Gold Coast cryptocurrency scam

Cryptocurrency was considered a type of asset like a property that people may have to pay capital gains tax (CGT) on.

Police said three men and two women, part of a criminal syndicate, have been charged over the scam, which ran from 2017 to 2019.

  • by Toby Crockford

Canadian fugitives Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky found dead

Murder suspects Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been found dead.

Canadian police have announced they have found the bodies of the two men suspected of killing Australian Lucas Fowler and his girlfriend Chynna Deese.

  • by Matthew Knott
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China

A student attended a protest at UQ. Days later Chinese officials visited his family

Students hold placards demanding transparency from UQ at Wednesday's protest.

Apparent intimidation tactics suggest the Chinese government carried out surveillance during the demonstration at the University of Queensland.

  • by Fergus Hunter

Carer was allegedly 'deliberately victimising' Parkinson's resident

Sarah Holland-Batt leaving the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in Brisbane.

A daughter has shared a harrowing description of alleged mistreatment of her father in a Queensland nursing home and her dissatisfaction with the watchdog's response.

  • by Felicity Caldwell

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Minister, council oppose clearing bushland for aged care centre in Brisbane's north
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Planning

Minister, council oppose clearing bushland for aged care centre in Brisbane's north

The Queensland government is under extreme pressure from one of its own ministers to cancel 15-year-old plans to clear six hectares of "regionally significant" bushland at Stafford Heights.

  • by Tony Moore
A revised charter of healthcare rights aims to empower patients to take a role in the own healthcare.

New healthcare rights charter to empower patients

The revised charter being launched on Thursday aims to empower patients to take a role in the own healthcare.

  • by Stuart Layt
Duty became the watchword of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne.

Kenneth Hayne: Trust in politics has 'been destroyed'

Hayne has launched an attack on the political establishment in his first public statement since the royal commission.

  • by Eryk Bagshaw
Queensland mum-of-three Jacinta Foulds died from a secondary infection after being hospitalised with influenza a. Her husband Daniel has gone public with a message to get vaccinated.
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Flu season

Mother's death prompts Queensland flu warning

The death of a mother due to flu-related illness so early in season has prompted Qld officials to issue health warning.

  • by Toby Crockford
Actor and cancer activist Samuel Johnson speaks to cancer patients and staff at Brisbane's Greenslopes Hospital.

The phone call that drives Samuel Johnson's cancer activism

Johnson is continuing to push for more funding and better treatments.

  • by Stuart Layt
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Politics

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie in Parliament.

'Like no other time in history': Australia facing an unprecedented national security test

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has likened the world's approach to containing China to the "catastrophic failure" to prevent the rise of Nazi Germany.

  • by Bevan Shields

Business

Mirvac has plans for another office at 200 George Street.

Office, industrial boosts Mirvac to fourth year of $1b profit

The rising tide of strong office and industrial markets has lifted diversified developer Mirvac’s profit above $1 billion for the fourth consecutive year.

  • by Simon Johanson
Australian shares are set to trade slightly weaker on Thursday.

AGL dives after flagging weaker profits

  • by William McInnes

AMP to raise capital after $2.3b loss

  • by Sarah Danckert

World

Demonstrators gather to protest the arrival of US President Donald Trump outside Miami Valley Hospital in Ohio.

'Not welcome here': protests greet Trump as he visits Ohio hospital

Aiming to play the traditional role of healer during national tragedy, President Donald Trump paid visits to two cities reeling from mass shootings.

  • by Jill Colvin
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Brisbane's best buys: The properties under $600k you need to see

Brisbane's best buys: The properties under $600k you need to see

Here’s our pick of the best buys in Brisbane and some of its surrounds at the moment – and they start at just $339,000.

  • by Caroline James
Osher Gunsberg lists Bondi Beach pad to upgrade locally

Osher Gunsberg lists Bondi Beach pad to upgrade locally

Everybody's favourite Bachie host has more on his plate than helping Matt Agnew find love - he's finding himself a new home.

  • by Lucy Macken
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Entertainment

Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson in The Loudest Voice.

'She was the first': Watts on playing #MeToo pioneer Gretchen Carlson

Australian actress Naomi Watts credits journalist Gretchen Carlson, who took on news titan Roger Ailes, as a pioneer of the #MeToo movement.

  • by Michael Idato
Paul Verhoeven with his father John.

Hungry for weird true crime podcast? Ex-cop shares gritty career stories 

Paul Verhoeven convinced his father to tell his 'highly inappropriate' stories of life as a Sydney cop in print, and now in a podcast.

  • by Peter Wells

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Smarter living

Bladnoch

The Australian-owned whisky taking on Scotland's best

It's one of several new or revitalised distilleries breathing life into the Lowlands region

  • by James Atkinson
Micheal Wentworth-Bell, with members of the Digital Lode development team.

Meet the Aussie behind one of VR's most anticipated games

Michael Wentworth-Bell's hobby project has now had funding from the state government, a US-based publisher and Facebook-owned Oculus.

  • by Krishan Sharma

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Sport

Ben Simmons (left) and Jonah Bolden in action at Boomers training this week.

Bolden's chance to make Boomers mark

In a team stacked with NBA experience, Boomers great Andrew Gaze can see one of the freshest faces making the biggest World Cup statement.

James O'Connor is set to start for the Wallabies on Saturday against the All Blacks.

O'Connor to start at No.13 for Wallabies against All Blacks

It's been six years since James O'Connor started for the Wallabies and he will finally get another chance against New Zealand on Saturday in the Bledisloe Cup opener.

  • by Tom Decent

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