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50-cent fares: Who wins big in plan for cheap public transport tickets

The Miles’ government’s planned 50 cent bus, train and ferry tips could bump public transport from 10 per cent to 15 per cent in the short-term, but the boost may not last, transport planners say.

Transport planners say there’s a lot about south-east Queensland’s system that Labor’s “radical” cost-of-living measure will not fix.

Important Olympic role goes to former council CEO

She would not be drawn on the government’s choice of the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre as the main athletics venue.

Debris ‘flew in air’ from highway crash that killed police officer

Senior Constable David Masters with wife Sharon and son Jack.

A witness has told a court there was “a hell of a lot of debris” after a police officer was struck and killed on the Bruce Highway in Brisbane’s north.

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The boys knew nothing about my son’s struggles. Yet somehow they knew what to do

One day, these boys will be men. Seeing how they treated my son - who’s happy just to be out on a basketball court with them – gave me faith.

Tamara Walsh
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The confrontation involving the child’s parents and Soe was captured on CCTV.

Accused skate park kidnapper walks free on bail

Tauvela Soe, along with two other people, allegedly forced a boy into the back seat of an SUV after a rock was thrown into his windscreen.

A wave of respiratory illnesses is hitting Queensland.

‘It’s quite unusual’: The five infections making Queenslanders so sick

The preferred antibiotic to treat “walking pneumonia” in children is in short supply, as a wave of respiratory illnesses spreads across Queensland.

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NRL 2024

‘Hasn’t got to that standard’: Shock snub of Maroons star explained

One debutant and one surprise axing have headlined the Maroons’ game 1 squad, while the race to replace Cameron Munster has been decided.

‘Good to go’: Hynes allays fitness fears; Trbojevic proud to lead Blues

Nicho Hynes.

NSW players arrived at their hotel on Monday afternoon, with Nicho Hynes declaring himself a certain starter at halfback and the new skipper receiving a warm reception.

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in 2019.
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G7 summit

Named and shamed: The West just turned up the heat on China and Russia

It was an eventful meeting of some of the world’s leading finance ministers at a resort town in Italy.

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Fire obliterated any chance of working out campers’ cause of death, court told

Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

A forensic pathologist and insect expert said she could not say how Russell Hill and Carol Clay died after their bodies were burned into bone fragments.

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Tragedy

Footage shows ride-share crash that left man, child dead

A father and his two young children were travelling in a ride-share car that turned into an oncoming Toyota Hilux, police say.

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Queensland

The public transport fare freeze follows the announcement by soon-to-be premier and deputy premier, Steven Miles and Cameron Dick, that vehicle registrations fees would also be frozen from July 1.
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‘As close to free as you can get’: All public transport trips in Qld to cost 50c

The flat fare will apply during a “use it or lose it” six-month trial from August 5, in Labor’s latest effort to ease cost-of-living pressures.

Man charged after fatal hit-and-run traffic crash, Hervey Bay

The accident happened about 8pm on Thursday night.

Police have charged a 41-year-old Urangan man following a fatal hit-and-run traffic crash in Hervey Bay on Sunday.

Infrastructure funding pledge to help ease SEQ growing pains

Poor connections between bus and rail services will add an extra 500,000 vehicles per day onto roads from the Ipswich region, unless changes are made urgently, Ipswich City Council says.

Last week, south-east mayors took their infrastructure woes to the state government. By Friday, they had secured a $350m injection.

Qld builds on housing push with $1000 cashback for  apprentices

18-year-old TAFE Queensland first-year electrical apprentice Dax Du Toit is one of 4,000 tradies eligible to receive cash-back for tools.

The payment for first-year apprentices is part of continued efforts to meet the state’s housing and infrastructure demands amid cost-of-living pressures.

Record crowds and road closures expected for Brisbane Marathon

Brisbane Marathon goes from Margaret Street in the city, crosses the Story Bridge to the Kangaroo Point Cliffs then turns back around to recross the bridge and on to New Farm Park and Commercial Road in Teneriffe, before turning around again.

Runners are being warned to leave extra time for travel to and from June’s Brisbane Marathon, with trains not running that weekend due to track work.

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Property prices have soared out of reach for many households.

‘People feel cheated’: Cut to home buyer budgets leaves households reeling

Workers are feeling ‘pretty distressed’ to realise the basics of life have slipped further out of reach than even in the recent past.

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David Fifita is a surprise omission from the Maroons’ State of Origin squad for Game One.
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NRL 2024

‘Hasn’t got to that standard’: Shock snub of Maroons star explained

One debutant and one surprise axing have headlined the Maroons’ game 1 squad, while the race to replace Cameron Munster has been decided.

Nicho Hynes.

Hynes allays fitness fears; Trbojevic proud to lead Blues

NSW players have arrived at their hotel, with the new skipper receiving a warm reception.

Mitchell Starc celebrates the wicket of  Abhishek Sharma.
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Starc delivers on $4.4m deal with star role in IPL triumph

Mitchell Starc won an $8m title shootout with fellow Australian Pat Cummins as the Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Australia’s men’s team with the Ashes trophy in 2023.

Minister fails to guarantee Boxing Day Test at the MCG amid stand-off

“What I can guarantee is we will have the best calendar, the envy of Australia,” Victoria’s major events minister says.

Viliame Kikau is a key component if the Bulldogs want to win.

Kikau out for up to six weeks, Butcher suffers season-ending injury

Canterbury’s star back-rower will be sidelined by a finger fracture for a crucial part of the season as the Roosters confirmed Egan Butcher has ruptured his ACL.

Keano Kini for the Gold Coast Titans.

Kiwi great’s clone triggers huge headache: Four things learnt from Broncos’ defeat

A day that was billed as the final audition for a host of State of Origin hopefuls, instead became the dawning of Keano Kini as an NRL star of the future.

Katrina Gorry says she will be fit for the Olympics.

‘I trust in my body’: Matildas star says she’ll be fit for Olympics

Katrina Gorry said a chill ran up her spine when she went down injured for West Ham United.

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