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Public servant takes Queensland government to court over pay dispute
For two years Glenn Dodds stepped up to a more senior role but the department he worked for refused to increase his pay grade.
$1.84b jobs fund to give Qld vaccine-making a shot in arm
The jobs fund, announced on Sunday, will kick off with a $20m cash injection into research to boost Queensland’s vaccine development capacity.
Exclusive
Queensland Rail
Commuters at risk as train drivers increasingly run red lights
Queensland Rail data shows the rate of trains passing through red signals has soared – up almost 50 per cent in March compared with 2020.
Snow possible for SEQ as mid-week cold snap looms
Temperatures will suddenly plummet in Queensland’s south-eastern corner and central parts of the state.
Qld Labor MP speaks out against party’s euthanasia bill
Touching on his own father’s “painful and difficult” experience, Logan MP Linus Power told Labor’s state conference the laws would have “serious unintended consequences”.
Doctors label assisted-dying system ‘pedantic’ and ‘clunky’
As Queensland MPs prepare to debate assisted dying legislation, doctors in Victoria – where euthanasia has been legal since 2019 – say the process there is overly bureaucratic.
Federal government to give Victoria extra vaccine doses ‘without taking away from anybody’
An extra 100,000 Pfizer doses will be released to Victorians within a month, while the number of AstraZeneca doses will be doubled to 230,000 without affecting supply to other states, the government says.
Analysis
City life
Why Melbourne? The answer to lockdowns doesn’t lie in demographic differences
The idea that behavioural differences between the cities explain COVID transmission is seductive, but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Exclusive
Organised crime
Qantas infiltrated by organised criminals, says intelligence report
A classified federal law enforcement intelligence operation code-named Project Brunello has determined that a “significant” number of Qantas staff are linked to criminality.
Exclusive
Crime
The cartel of Australian Mr Bigs responsible for $1.5b drug imports
Nine men drawn from Australian bikie gangs, Asian triads and Middle-Eastern crime syndicates make up what criminal intelligence authorities have called the “Aussie Cartel”.
Sum of all fears: Why Australia’s maths problem is getting worse
A maths war is erupting as traditionalists and progressives argue about what students should know, and the best way to teach them.
The beer that’s tapping into the booze-free boom
For a long time everyone agreed that low-alcohol beer tasted terrible, but rising sales are turning that assumption on its head amid a new sobriety movement.
Meghan and Harry name new baby girl after the Queen and Princess Diana
The couple named the baby Lilibet ‘Lili’ as a tribute to her great-grandmother, the Queen.
Queensland
Tenants allowed to keep pets and rent increases capped under Qld MP’s plan
Property owners would find it harder to kick out tenants under proposed law changes in Queensland.
Townsville State of Origin brings league to heartland
Townsville is Australia’s largest northern city and rugby league is a religion there. Hosting the State of Origin is very much a big deal.
‘You can build it’: Qld Premier challenges PM on quarantine hub
Annastacia Palaszczuk says if the federal government wants to set the criteria for the state’s quarantine hub, it can build and operate it too.
Community vaccination hubs open in Queensland
About 15,000 Queenslanders were expected to receive their COVID-19 vaccination at 18 community hubs on the weekend.
Shoppers shun Queen St as CBD office occupancy struggles post COVID-19
Despite no COVID-19 community transmission, pedestrian counts show far fewer people are shopping in the Brisbane Mall than planners expect in mid-2021.
Politics
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Property market
The Sydney and Melbourne suburbs where every house sells for $1m-plus
There are 156 suburbs in Sydney and 15 in Melbourne where every house sold this year has changed hands for more than $1 million.
Business
‘Millions impacted’: Industry super group faces ransomware attack lawsuit
IFM has been hit with a class action that alleges millions of consumers, from large businesses to regular motorists, paid higher prices for fuel when the pipeline was closed following a ransomware attack.
World
Pope voices ‘pain’ over Canadian school deaths, doesn’t apologise
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.”
Opinion
Scott Morrison’s the man for optimistic narratives but one day Australia will need hard truths
Sean Kelly
Columnist and former adviser to Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
There’s a way to kickstart migration safely and reap the benefits
Jane Fitzgerald
Property Council executive
For we are one and ... safe: How Australia surrenders its liberty by tiptoeing around press freedom
Jonathan Holmes
Journalist and former presenter of Media Watch
Explore
Property bydomain
These are the only 11 neighbourhoods where house prices aren't rising
The handful of neighbourhoods escaping soaring house prices have been revealed, with fewer than a dozen areas recording price falls in recent months.
Rundown cottage sells for first time in 111 years for $2.535 million
A family of five bought a weathered, two-bedroom Hawthorne cottage at auction on Saturday, planning to renovate the property into their dream home.
Life & Culture
Barbed wire and bare bums: how Australian art came of age
A new book charts our history at the Venice Biennale, from cringe-worthy conservatism to mature self-confidence.
Sport
Chammas on Monday
NRL 2021
Sterlo reveals the trait that has Cleary on course to match legends
Nathan Cleary has played more games, scored more tries and kicked more goals than three legends of the sport at the same time in their respective careers. There’s still one box to tick.
Fittler wants Origin referees meeting after ‘pedantic’ NRL penalties
The NSW Blues coach was concerned with what he saw on the weekend.
Opinion
AFL 2021
Four Points: Dreams realised on Perth’s biggest stage
At Optus Stadium on Saturday night was an event bigger than the game itself.
Michael Gleeson
Sports columnist
Tight Five
Super Rugby
The flaw that makes the Waratahs less than the sum of their parts
Poor restarts are ensuring NSWimmediately put themselves under pressure again.
Opinion
Test cricket
The fundamental issue with England’s Test team
England have got it the wrong way round. The main pace bowlers are above 30, while the batsmen are green about the gills.
Scyld Berry
Updated
NRL 2021
‘No police involved’: Scott nightclub altercation came after Raiders dig
Curtis Scott’s manager says the Canberra star believed the incident was so minor it was not worth reporting to his club.
Analysis
NRL 2021
NRL should pay Jack de Belin’s wage, says Dragons sponsor
Norm Black has called on the NRL to pay banned players directly if they are sidelined under the game’s controversial no-fault stand-down policy.
Have Your Say
Suns chairman says grand final move on cards
Tony Cochrane says it’s “almost probable” the AFL grand final will have to be played away from the MCG due to Victoria’s handling of COVID-19.
