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This suburb has the most plane noise complaints – but these locals say that’s just hot air
A Senate inquiry has heard most aircraft noise complaints come from one Brisbane suburb. Some residents are not worried.
Mother in critical condition after crash kills father and children
A father and his two teenage children were killed in a crash near the town of Dalby on Queensland’s Western Downs.
Defence attempts to restrict independent inquiry into helicopter crash deaths
The Australian military has made a submission seeking to severely curtail an independent inquiry’s ability to investigate a fatal Taipan helicopter crash last year.
Exclusive
Healthcare
‘It’s about safety’: Chiropractors once again banned from manipulating babies’ spines
The Chiropractic Board of Australia has reinstated its interim ban on practitioners manipulating the spines of children after public outcry and political pressure.
The suburb where people’s income went up almost $90,000 in one year
Incomes soared in some of the best-paid parts of the country at the end of the pandemic, while landlords enjoyed record profits on their investments.
Perspective
Queensland votes
If Labor and the LNP hope you forget (bits of) the past, what’s the future?
Queensland’s budget week has taught us at least one thing: the major parties want October’s election to be a contest of ideas. Here’s what’s on offer so far.
Matt Dennien
Reporter
Elation, sorrow over Sunshine Coast native title ruling
It’s a bittersweet victory for traditional owners whose native title rights over more than 300,000 hectares of land in south-east Queensland have been recognised in the Federal Court.
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Cooking
Why the stovetop is the last front in war on household gas
A growing number of chefs are backing induction cooking over gas, including for the legendary “wok hei” of Asian cuisine.
The murder tragedy that struck fatal house fire victims decades earlier
The mother and son killed in a house fire south of Brisbane had endured tragedy decades before their deaths.
CBA targets rivals as chase for business banking crown heats up
While NAB is the big fish in business banking, Vacy-Lyle says CBA is also keen to cut Macquarie down to size, by sharpening its focus on the real estate market.
China offers new olive branch to lure Aussie tourists
The visa deal comes as Canberra and Beijing agree to new forms of military communication to prevent Australian Defence personnel being put at risk.
Opinion
Discrimination
I stuck up for students even teachers called ‘satanic’. It cost me my job
It’s hard enough for us as teachers to speak out about how we’ve been treated in religious schools. For our students, it’s almost impossible.
Elise Christian
Former primary school teacher
Exclusive
Investigations
From Caliphate to the classroom: How hardline group courts the young
Fringe Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is using front groups to spread its message to young people.
Meet Max: She’s the top-selling VR game on Meta, and created in Qld
VR games are booming in the Sunshine State, and Max Mustard is the latest star delighting gamers internationally.
‘He had that drive’: Reality check behind Maroons outcast’s transformation
The rise of several emerging stars and a lengthy suspension record threatened to end his Maroons days. But some key changes have inspired a career renaissance.
He fished a safe full of cash out of a creek. That was the easy part
A full safe is the holy grail for “magnet fishers” – but pulling a six-figure sum out of the water isn’t as simple a get-rich-quick story as it sounds.
Queensland
Updated
Emergency services
One dead, father and son rescued after yacht capsizes off Queensland coast
A 65-year-old man’s body was found several hours after the father and son were winched to safety on Sunday about 85km off the Bundaberg coast.
Crisafulli opens door for first home buyers to rent out a room
An LNP government would buck the current rules and allow first home buyers to rent out a room in their new home to help pay their mortgage.
$200 sports vouchers now available for Qld kids
While announcing the new sport club vouchers, the Premier also described reports of union influence on construction contracts as “misleading”.
Qld police disrupt ‘serious’ meth supply chain after south-east raids
A 36-year-old Loganholme man has been charged with a string of drug and weapons charges after three properties were raided.
Hero pilot from Sea World crash dies
The pilot who survived the fatal Sea World helicopter crash last year has tragically passed away.
Politics
Analysis
China relations
Cheng Lei wanted to do her job. A Chinese embassy official had other ideas
Even in Canberra’s Parliament House, Australia’s monument to democracy, Cheng Lei cannot avoid being hassled by the Chinese government.
Business
Analysis
Climate policy
The accounting trick at the heart of the world’s climate goals
On paper we can offset our way to net zero. In the real world, we cannot.
World
Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Netanyahu claims he didn’t know about plan to pause fighting
Israel has sought to tell the world it is softening its approach in south Gaza while assuring Israelis that the offensive is ongoing. Netanyahu has a mask for all audiences.
Isabel Kershner
Opinion
World peace through pizza? No, but it’s a start
Melodie Goldsmith
Brexit will dominate the UK election. Not this one, but the next
George Brandis
Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general
Explore
Property
Foreign homebuyers spend millions in Perth amid calls for surcharge rethink
Buyers from Asia spent more than $5 billion purchasing real estate in Australia last year, but only 5 per cent of that investment was in Perth.
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Title Deeds
A garden apartment for $17.5m? A who’s who of downsizers put a high price on designer blocks
While fashion-minded shoppers talk of labels like Gucci, Fendi and Hermes, for the high-end downsizer it’s all about the designer names of inner-city buildings like Pomeroy, Manar and now Billyard Ave.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Analysis
Gadgets
We tried the $2000 baby tech dividing parents
We road-test the controversial Snoo smart bassinet: how much tech is too much for your baby?
Opinion
Chicken
I’m fed up with food labels that come with a side-serve of guilt
Jo Stubbings
Writer and reviewer
Culture
We had some questions about the Jacob Elordi portrait. The artist answered
Whose idea was it for the Australian actor to be shirtless – and what’s with the Camus?
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Sport
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NRL 2024
‘He’s been playing with injections’: Shock Cobbo axing explained as Slater delivers Walsh verdict
Reece Walsh has been selected for Queensland in game two of the State of Origin series, but J’maine Hopgood and Selwyn Cobbo have been ruled out with injury.
‘Make sure you don’t live in glass houses’: Maguire fires first shot at Maroons
NSW coach Michael Maguire has hit back at suggestions Maroons fullback Reece Walsh was deliberately taken out in Origin I.
Five years on from his stroke, a Maroons great reveals he is still fighting
He became one of rugby league’s most feared big men, but the Maroons legend has revealed the extent to which a life-threatening setback still affects him.
Analysis
State of Origin
‘We didn’t handle Latrell well at all’: Why Maroons will fear return of Blues’ wrecking ball
Queensland skipper Daly Cherry-Evans has painful memories of the last time the South Sydney star ran out for NSW. A look back at his performances during that series explains why.
How Australia’s swimmers compare to the rest of the world ahead of Olympics
Is the swimming team heading to Paris as good as is being advertised? Here’s a look at the early numbers.
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US Open
The agonising moment on final hole when McIlroy lost the US Open
The Northern Irishman bogeyed his last hole by missing a par putt from about four feet. It handed the lead to Bryson DeChambeau, who sealed victory minutes later.
Analysis
State of Origin
Maguire has made plenty of changes. That doesn’t mean he’s hit the panic button
Michael Maguire has danced a fine line between surgery to his team and making needed changes.
Have Your Say
‘It was a brutal task’: How Gordon Bray picked 15 Wallabies ‘Immortals’ from 125 years of rugby history
The “Voice of Rugby” has nominated 15 Australian Immortals. Do you agree with his selections?
