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Brisbane, Gold Coast in COVID danger zone as capital prepares for the worst
Queensland Health data shows a significant portion of infection growth across the state is still being driven by two key hotspots, where peak case and hospital impacts will be felt first.
Bye bye borders, hello buyers as visitors to Queensland purchase homes
With the state borders fully open, interstate interest in Queensland remains high, particularly in the real estate market.
Updated
Australian Open
Barty breezes through first round with clinical win over Tsurenko
There was a time when Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko got the better of Ashleigh Barty but the Australian on Monday easily won her opening round of the Australian Open 6-0 6-1.
Opinion
Retail
COVID fear and supply famine join to decimate Kmart, Target’s earnings
Over December and January as physical stores reopened there emerged a new set of challenges - the scarcity of staff and an abundance of consumer fear.
Elizabeth Knight
Business columnist
Key players unmoved on Langer despite Ashes, World Cup success
Ordinarily, a coach who has won the country’s first men’s Twenty20 World Cup and retained the urn in such convincing fashion would be walking into head office to name his price, but this is not the case with Justin Langer.
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Australian Open
Djokovic touches down in Belgrade as fresh grand slam storm awaits
Deported tennis star Novak Djokovic posed for selfies upon arrival at Belgrade Airport on Monday, but fresh threats of grand slam bans were already overshadowing his warm welcome home.
Novak Djokovic is heading home. Question is, which home to choose?
After his sensational deportation from Australia, Novak Djokovic has a string of prestige homes around the world to choose from.
Anxious wait for Australia’s Tongan community after volcano
The last time Sikahema Aholelei spoke to his family in Tonga was on Saturday night at the very moment the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted.
‘Worst thing is not knowing’: Tongan players’ agonising wait for contact from loved ones
The communications blackout in Tonga after an underwater eruption has left many rugby league players feeling anxious.
Tongan blast was violent and vast, but may not disrupt global warming
While Tonga’s neighbours struggled to access information about what was happening on the ground, scientists, equipped with modern monitoring technology, saw the blast in real time.
Exclusive
Property development
Path to home ownership for women ‘falling through the gaps’
Vulnerable women with steady but low incomes could rent and then buy their homes under a new model of property development.
How explaining ageing (and death and birth) has changed me
The closest thing we have to an anti-ageing option is exercise. But we’re not talking about running marathons.
Eat your way to a better night’s sleep
Rethinking the supermarket shop – specifically, your intake of red meat and cheese – could be the key to a better kip.
Queensland
COVID in Qld schools: As dates change again, experts say there will be outbreaks
Queensland’s schooling year will no longer be extended to allow extra time for students and teachers in December.
Boulia holds out as Queensland’s only COVID refuge ... for now
A shire of fewer than 500 people is Queensland’s only holdout against the current wave of COVID-19 infections, but the region’s mayor says he expects that to change.
Almost 1000 Qld police service staff off work because of COVID
The numbers come just days after the Queensland border was removed, in a bid to free up police officers to bring them back to the frontline, after more than 400 days on the state line.
Divers search Hawkesbury River for missing Queensland girl
Police and rescue crews are still searching for missing nine-year-old Charlise Mutten, who was reported missing in the Blue Mountains on Friday.
Greens’ gains in Brisbane may not be enough in 2022
While there has been significant internal hand-wringing about the party’s long-term chances of success, for now the Greens have their eyes set on the federal election.
Politics
Explainer
Australian Open
Djokovic is gone. What does his case mean for Australia’s border rules?
A whirlwind visa battle between the world number one and the Australian government has reached its climax. How did it play out in court? And what does it mean for the Open?
Business
Beforepay shares sink 44 per cent on debut
The pay-on-demand fintech company is the ASX’s latest newcomer - but did not receive a warm welcome.
World
California pot growers say life is hard without double-dealing
In the five years since California voters approved a legal market for marijuana, farms have sprouted but say they can’t survive on legal pot alone.
Opinion
COVID a wild card in efforts to help Tonga
Dr Tess Newton Cain
Pacific analyst, commentator, consultant, journalist
Explore
Property
Where buyers splashed the most cash on sea changes last year
City dwellers poured cash into coastal property last year and the trend is showing no signs of slowing as Omicron prompts corporate Australia to set up the home office again.
How the Brisbane Olympics could cause a high jump for property prices
The Games are set to bring more investment dollars than ever to the Queensland capital and could fuel the biggest real estate renaissance in the city’s history. Here are the suburbs to watch.
Lifestyle
Explainer
Ageing
How do we age and can we ‘delay’ it?
Ageing starts from the moment we are conceived. And while much anti-ageing research is under way, the most effective option we have is at our fingertips.
Culture
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Review
A cartoonish new Scream can’t rise to horror franchise’s former glory
The iconic series would hardly have lasted this long without Neve Campbell, so is the fifth movie just rehashing a tired formula?
Sport
Australian Open 2022 Live Updates: Victory for Barty and Millman, French sports ministry’s message to Djokovic
The action is finally getting underway on the court after a tumultuous lead up to this year’s tournament.
‘Just the beginning’: Sunday shines as first African-born Diamonds player
Ethiopian-born netballer Sunday Aryang was named in the extended squad to travel to London for the series before being named to make her debut in the match.
Quirky rituals carry Osaka to easy first round win
No woman, over the past three years, has been a finer performer on hard courts than the Japanese star Naomi Osaka, who opened her Australian Open defence in stylish fashion.
Updated
Australian Open
Kokkinakis exits, Vukic ignites the home crowd with his first major match win
Thanasi Kokkinakis’s dream summer hits a road block, wildcard Aleksandar Vukic overjoyed with first round triumph and John Millman advances.
Novak Djokovic is out of the Australian Open. But what about the other grand slams?
If Novak Djokovic remains unvaccinated, will he face similar hurdles at the year’s other grand slam events? Here is what to know about the policies in place for the other major tournaments.
‘Incredible’: Cummins celebrates his first Ashes series as captain
Test captain Pat Cummins wants his team to take their successful counterattacking style overseas.
The Barty effect: World No.1 turns footy-mad Indigenous kids on to tennis
Ashleigh Barty’s emergence as a world beater has proven a tonic for Australian tennis.
Have Your Say
Cricketing great and churlish statesman: Virat Kohli a contrast to the end
Hot-blooded, strong-willed and without peer as an India captain, Virat Kohli has had enough of leadership.
