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A heritage pub, a height limit and housing: Blue looms over Breakfast Creek
The Brisbane pub’s owners say an 18-storey apartment block being considered for a neighbouring site could put the historic watering hole’s future at risk.
Qld’s biggest high school hires extra staff as enrolments exceed 4000
The school, which has an official enrolment capacity of 3444 students, has grown by 8 per cent in two years.
Specialist team called in to identify victims of fiery highway crash
The Bruce Highway has reopened and one of the three victims named after a five-vehicle crash at a notorious Maryborough junction. But police aren’t ruling out more victims.
Exclusive
Housing crisis
90,000 tradies needed now to meet nation’s housing goal
Australia faces the impossible task of finding an extra 90,000 tradies in the next three months to start building enough homes to combat the housing crisis.
Exclusive
CCP influence
The businessman at the top of Australia’s intelligence hit list
The suspect’s identification by intelligence agencies raises big questions for one of Australia’s neighbours, and over China’s attempts to wield influence in the Pacific.
Greens’ supermarket-busting bill labelled ‘extreme’ by business, but has Liberal backer
The proposed powers – which are also backed by the Nationals – could be used to force Woolworths and Coles to sell assets if the supermarkets grow too big.
Opinion
Billionaires
Australia has more billionaires than ever. That’s nothing to celebrate
Marking a new high of ultra-wealthy individuals is one record we shouldn’t be cheering about.
Victoria Devine
Money columnist
You can’t simply walk into Hermes and buy a Birkin bag. A couple are suing instead
The bag’s exclusivity is very much part of its appeal, but two Californians who have struck out in their attempts to buy one have decided enough is enough.
‘I had to get a yes’: How do you talk a millionaire into saving your record shop?
The grumpy owner, the eccentric museum owner – and a treasured piece of history.
How humans are taking whale food and feeding it to cats and dogs
“It’s like a dystopian, post-apocalyptic David Attenborough documentary, where you have penguins swimming on one side and a massive trawler on the other.”
Doughnut Twisties and Chupa Chups custard: Do any of these crazy collabs actually taste good?
Supermarket shelves keep filling up with edible mash-ups, but do any of them taste good?
Fiji’s best places to stay – whatever your budget
From hostels and bures on quiet beaches to private island retreats, Fiji has somewhere to stay for every traveller and every budget.
Opinion
Holidays
Planning a theme park holiday for your family? Get ready for the Hunger Games
They’re supposed to be the happiest places on earth. But expensive VIP passes and hours-long wait times are taking the shine off theme parks.
Shona Hendley
Writer
Queensland
Suspension lifted for Qld teacher once charged with choking wife
The charge, which was later dropped, related to allegations the teacher had choked his wife.
Schrinner firms his push for Victoria Park stadium’s ‘compelling case’
Brisbane’s re-elected lord mayor has bucked rejection of a new stadium by both state major party leaders, as 2032 organisers met to cap-off a turbulent week.
Exclusion zone lifted around large fire in Brisbane
A large blaze in Brisbane’s south-east prompted police to impose a broad exclusion zone, which has since been revoked.
Qld moves to ban rent bidding but ‘tenants offer to pay more’
Limiting rent increases to once a year and a ban on rent bidding are pitched to “help to stabilise the private rental market”. But debate in Qld is far from over.
‘What’s going on?’: Punters left hanging over controversial rock festival
The Pandemonium rock festival, with Alice Cooper and Blondie, was supposed to come to Qld, but reports it has been cancelled have left ticket-holders confused.
Politics
Tim Wilson’s preselection win locks in Goldstein rematch against Zoe Daniel
The ambitious Liberal has spent months forming a strategy on how to win over the 12 per cent of voters who abandoned the party at the 2022 election to reclaim his old seat.
Business
Infrastructure giant Macquarie plots Heathrow Airport swoop
Australian investment house Macquarie is assembling the firepower to buy out several of Heathrow’s existing backers.
World
Battles rage around Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, Israel says 170 gunmen dead
Al Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, is now one of the few healthcare facilities even partially operational in the north of the territory.
Opinion
As Liberals navigate a ‘sea of red’, the Greens are making waves of their own
George Brandis
Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general
You’re not a racist if you oppose unchecked immigration, you’re a realist
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
The worst thing about Trump’s take-down of Rudd? Dutton’s cynical reaction
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
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Property
Family splashes $6.85m on Albert Park two-bedder with reno plans
The new owners could create a contemporary home that retains the history of stables that have been on the site for 100 years.
Buy now, experts warn as they predict Perth home median to smash $850k
Analysts predict that strong overseas and interstate migration, a chronic undersupply and easing interest rates will keep house prices rising over the next year.
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Magazine
Good Weekend
The March 23 edition
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Opinion
Weight loss
Oprah jumping on the Ozempic bandwagon is, frankly, just sad
Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist
Culture
Opinion
Weight loss
Oprah jumping on the Ozempic bandwagon is, frankly, just sad
Somehow it feels like one of the world’s most celebrated media forces has morphed into a crass shill for Big Pharma.
Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist
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Sport
Team orders and a mistake: The calls that cost pragmatic Piastri a podium in Melbourne
McLaren ordered its drivers to swap positions on lap 28, and the Australian gave himself a slap on the wrist for a clumsy turn.
Told to give way, Oscar refuses to grouch as podium curse continues
Oscar Piastri was driving towards a podium finish – until his McLaren bosses ordered him to give way to teammate Lando Norris.
Tigers singing a new song, but off the field, the classics never die
Just hours before one of the Tigers’ most famous wins in what has been a barren run, the joint venture was reminded drama’s never far away.
2024 Australian Grand Prix in pictures
Photos from the 2024 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne by photographers Eddie Jim and Joe Armao.
Updated
NRL 2024
Origin blow for Maroons with Fa’asuamaleaui out for season; Sharks rage over hip-drops
The star prop has been diagnosed with an ACL rupture as Cronulla fume at the NRL’s lack of action over a tackle that injured their big man.
Sainz recovers from emergency surgery to win Australian Grand Prix on red-letter day for Ferrari
Carlos Sainz won a dramatic GP after Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton had to bow out.
Opinion
World Rugby
Seventeen dead minutes: Why World Rugby had to act after Cup final
The 2011 Rugby World Cup final was by no means a classic. But comparing it to last year’s showpiece event proves rule changes have turned rugby into a waiting game.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
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Seventeen dead minutes: Why World Rugby had to act after Cup final
The 2011 Rugby World Cup final was no classic. But comparing it to last year’s showpiece event proves rule changes have turned rugby into a waiting game.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
