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Brisbane doctor details how he was sacked by major hospital
Dr Lucas McLindon’s claims of links between vaccines and miscarriages have fuelled discussions online and at anti-vaccination rallies.
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Queensland Police
Queensland’s top cop declined to give evidence at inquiry
Katarina Carroll has confessed she initially rejected an invitation to give evidence at a commission of inquiry into the state police service.
Opinion
NRL 2022
Why Wally Lewis wouldn’t wear No.6 in today’s NRL
Six-agains, seven-tackle sets, 40:20 kicks, uncontested scrums and a 10-metre rule. Which former greats would be stars in the modern game?
Roy Masters
Sports Columnist
Breaking
NRL grand final
‘Realistically, we only made the decision this afternoon’: NRL grand final to stay in Sydney
After weeks of wrangling with the NSW government, the NRL has announced the grand final will be at Accor Stadium this year.
Breaking
Concussion crisis
Paul Green’s brain donated to Australian Sports Brain Bank
The family of the late premiership-winning North Queensland Cowboys coach have donated his brain to science.
Unemployment rate falls to 48-year low
The nation’s unemployment rate has fallen to 3.4 per cent, but there may be early signs of weakness in the jobs market.
A single sentence: How Scott Morrison took on his ministers’ powers without their knowledge
The plan to give the former PM the same powers as the health minister was hatched in the early days of the pandemic. He then used the same template to add other ministries.
Opinion
Sketch
Captain Morrison refuses to walk the plank
The former PM’s hour-long press conference was a tour de force of Morrisonisms, as if he felt compelled to trot out his greatest hits.
Michael Koziol
Journalist
For one type of home, the property downturn is deeper than the rest
While homes across the price spectrum have fallen in the southern capitals, only Brisbane’s most expensive homes fell in value in the three months to July.
‘It’s like an anti-Instagram’: What explains BeReal’s meteoric rise?
A “deep instinct to be sociable” keeps us coming back to Meta’s platforms. But a disastrous Instagram update has sent a competitor’s popularity soaring.
Apple targets September 7 for iPhone 14 launch
The new iPhones will kick off a busy product season for the tech giant, which will also include multiple new Macs, low-end and high-end iPads, and three Apple Watch models.
Man up? Person up and put the gendered language in the past
David Elliott’s insult against Matt Kean is a reminder of the ugly language that inexplicably remains in politics and business.
‘I am here to kill the Queen,’ Windsor Castle intruder said
The man spent months planning the attack and trying to gain access to the royal family.
‘Great task’: Liz Cheney now eyeing 2024 White House run
Cheney — who lost her House primary to a candidate endorsed by former president Donald Trump — also announced the formation of a political action committee.
‘Fifty Holocausts’ remarks spark fury in Germany, Israel
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz came under fire for not speaking up.
Queensland
One in seven Queensland Indigenous kids reported to child protection system
The over-representation of Indigenous children in Queensland’s child protection system is increasing at every point, data shows.
Number of Qld women sent to jail triples, most for stealing
Fewer women are being sentenced for crimes, but those who are sentenced will more likely find themselves in jail.
Man charged with domestic violence murder of new girlfriend
Queensland police believe the mother-of-four had recently moved to the area and the relationship with the man was quite recent.
Truck loses load of beer kegs on highway, causing traffic delays
Commuters heading to Brisbane on Wednesday faced traffic delays from three major highways.
Brisbane property prices tipped to fall more than 10 per cent by the end of 2023
ANZ predicts Brisbane home prices should rise slightly this year ahead of a double-digit drop in 2023, as data shows inflationary pressures are even more acute than feared.
Politics
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic
Long lockdowns a ‘failure of policy’, says WHO envoy on COVID
David Nabarro, the World Health Organisation’s special envoy on the pandemic, says he didn’t support the COVID-zero approach.
Business
Qantas takeover of Alliance Australia hits hurdle as ACCC flags concerns
The competition watchdog has outlined some concerns with Qantas’s proposed merger with fly-in, fly-out carrier Alliance Aviation Services.
World
China seeds clouds to induce rainfall amid severe drought
China is scrambling to alleviate power shortages and bring more water to the drought-hit basin of the Yangtze River as it battles a record-breaking heatwave.
Opinion
Turnbull is not the referendum messiah he thinks he is
Teela Reid
Lawyer and Wiradjuri/Wailwan woman
We need a royal commission to shed light on ‘shadow government’
Chris Wallace
Political historian
A breach of norms of Trumpian proportions: Morrison’s power grab
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre and former political staffer
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Property
What can you buy for Australia’s median house price?
Across all the capital cities, the median house price is still north of $1 million, but that budget will stretch further in some neighbourhoods than others.
Grand stairway plan for new home on vacant Brisbane River block
Architects have proposed a stairway become the most publicly visible aspect of a new house planned for a stretch of the river at Hawthorne.
Lifestyle
Opinion
Shopping
How to save money at the supermarket (and still eat well)
Keeping your shopping bills down is possible – some of it is luck, some of it is meal planning, and the rest is knowing what to spend your hard-earned coin on and where you can skimp a little.
Susie Burrell
Culture
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Review
Missionary impossible: Emma Thompson excels in sex dramedy
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande tells the story of a widow who knows exactly what she wants but will have to clear several mental hurdles in order to get it.
Sport
Opinion
NRL 2022
Why Wally Lewis wouldn’t wear No.6 in today’s NRL
Six-agains, seven-tackle sets, 40:20 kicks, uncontested scrums and a 10-metre rule. Which former greats would be stars in the modern game?
Roy Masters
Sports Columnist
NSW still expects to host NRL grand final despite Qld offering more
An announcement on the location of the October 2 grand final will be made on Thursday afternoon.
A divisive golfer and a pundit have feuded for years. Now there’s a $1b lawsuit
A letter demanded Brandel Chamblee stop repeating an accusation Patrick Reed had cheated.
Kyrgios, de Minaur out of US Open lead-up in straight sets
Alex de Minaur and Nick Kyrgios have been handed reality checks before the year’s final major.
Immortal Kombat
NRL 2022
The inexcusable mistake Knights players should never have made
Newcastle are going through a tough period and must find their DNA again, writes Andrew Johns.
‘Master’ coach Postecoglou on path to greatness in Europe: Kewell
Harry Kewell believes Ange Postecoglou is well on his way to being recognised as one of the top managers.
England, India and dollars dominate Australia fixture
Australia will play almost half its Tests and total game days against England and India over the next four years.
Have Your Say
‘Witch hunt’: Players union slams NRL over drug testing of Ponga, Mann
The fallout from the Knights’ toilet cubicle incident continues.
