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Brisbane councillor ordered to repay $20,000 for pro-Palestine newsletter
Brisbane’s LNP councillors voted unanimously for the Greens’ Trina Massey to repay the thousands it cost to produce the council newsletter.
Police told to review handling of complaints about Brisbane childcare paedophile
Queensland’s police minister has asked for another review into how officers handled complaints into one of Australia’s worst paedophiles.
Brisbane’s house sale prices continue to soar despite rising interest rates
Brisbane is now the second-hottest house market in Queensland.
Premier and the man who wants his job tackle community election hit-list
A representative body of 1.7 million Queenslanders served party leaders its hot-button topics – with a focus on renewable energy. Here’s how they responded.
Elle Macpherson refused chemo to treat cancer despite 32 doctors’ advice
Doctors advised the model to undergo a mastectomy with radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and a breast reconstruction.
I’d like to give my parents $400,000. Will it affect their age pension?
My parents are concerned they will lose the pension after receiving my gift.
Opinion
Holidays
The one thing Australian’s won’t give up, despite the cost of living
We’ll hold back on barista flat whites and fancy restaurants, on new furniture and designer clothing. And yet… we’re all still travelling?
Ben Groundwater
Travel writer
The restaurants Supernormal’s Andrew McConnell loves to eat at (and his secret takeaway pizza cheat)
When he’s not in the kitchen or dreaming up businesses like Brisbane’s new waterfront restaurant, star chef Andrew McConnell cannot resist the lure of simple Italian flavours.
The Queensland town among those with the smallest house price increases
Buyers looking for falls in prices will be disappointed.
Broncos fan favourite’s 80 minutes to ensure this is not his swan song
He has been a battle-hardened servant of the club for more than a decade, but now he has just one more chance to prove he deserves to remain beyond this year.
How far five Lions rookies have come to avenge finals heartache
Last year they were boys, but this year they have blossomed into men. Now these Brisbane youngsters want to defy history.
What you may have missed at the halfway mark of the Paralympics ... and what to look forward to
With more than 500 gold medals to be won at the Paralympics, it’s tough keeping up with all the action. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
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PARIS PARALYMPICS 2024
How this Paralympian rebounded from glandular fever to break a world record
Australian athletics star James Turner was down and out a few months ago. On Tuesday, he smashed the world record.
‘I can’t help it if I am this way’: The trans sprinter dragged into Paralympics gender war
No Paralympic athlete has faced as much scrutiny at the Paris Games as this vision-impaired sprinter.
Queensland
Cyclists hit back after mayor labels them a ‘Greens mouthpiece’
Bicycle user groups, who found Adrian Schrinner’s May comment “incredibly offensive”, were finally given the right of reply in City Hall.
Childcare rapist pleads guilty to hundreds of charges, families in tears
While the families of his victims cried in the courtroom, Ashley Griffith listened for almost three hours as the charges were read aloud.
More than half of young Queenslanders are exhausted, stressed: survey
“This looks exactly like an epidemic where a virus was introduced into young people around 2010 and it has been spreading ever since,” the state’s chief health officer says.
Failed drug dealer laments ‘worst job he ever had’
“You did not have an effective debt-recovery system,” a justice told the dealer before sentencing him in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Toddler malnourished, infested with lice before death
Shannon Leigh White, 47, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after her stepdaughter Willow Dunn, 4, was found dead at a Cannon Hill home, in Brisbane’s east, in 2020.
Politics
Analysis
Political leadership
Smash or be smashed: Chalmers gambles on a rift with RBA
The treasurer is utterly at odds with those in the Reserve Bank who say the economy is running a bit too hot – and he doesn’t mind if Australians watch the argument live.
Business
Cathay Pacific grounds planes, finds 15 A350s need engine parts replaced
The airline inspected its entire A350 fleet after a leak in a fuel system reportedly caused an engine fire on a flight bound for Zurich.
World
What happened when 5m Lego pieces went overboard
Almost 30 years ago, millions of Lego pieces plunged into the sea in what became known as the Great Lego Spill. They are still bobbing up today.
Opinion
Netanyahu’s disregard for hostage deaths is turning Israel against him
Rodger Shanahan
Middle East and security analyst
Why Kamala Harris has said the c-word only twice on the campaign trail
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Explore
Property
‘More bang for your buck’: Where you can tree change for $618,000
“Your typical buyer there can sell their house, come down here and buy something probably nicer and still have $1 million in their pockets to play with.”
Seven of the best luxury homes for sale right now
From a near-new home that takes its cues from mid-century style, to an 1880s villa with a bluestone facade, we’ve rounded up our top picks.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Scientists make definitive call on whether phones cause brain cancer
A World Health Organisation review of more than 5000 studies, led by Australian scientists, examined the risk of several cancers associated with mobile phone use.
Opinion
Australian fashion
Australians buy more new clothes than anyone else. So why is our fashion industry dying?
Melissa Singer
National fashion editor
Opinion
Scams
Carol ‘completely trusted these people’, then her life savings disappeared
Nina Hendy
Business and finance journalist
Culture
Long after Xena, Lucy Lawless directs a film about another warrior princess
The documentary Never Look Away is about “a wild woman in terms of sex, drugs and punk music” – maverick photojournalist Margaret Moth.
Opinion
WordPlay
The slurs you’ve been using without even knowing it
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
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NRL 2024
NRL rejects Latrell Mitchell’s bid to serve one-game ban this weekend
Latrell Mitchell was restricted to riding an exercise bike at training on Tuesday, but Souths argued he should have been able to serve his one-game suspension this week.
Aussie sailor’s near-miss in electrical storm
Racing had to be abandoned after yachts were caught in the middle of a fierce storm in Barcelona.
Opinion
NRL 2024
What really happened between Wayne Bennett and the Newcastle Knights
As he brings his Dolphins to Newcastle for a last-eight shoot-out, there remains resentment in the Hunter over his three years there.
Andrew Webster
Chief Sports Writer
Who’s going? Who’s staying? A club-by-club guide to the AFL trade period
We have gone through each club to see what they might get up to in this year’s AFL trade period.
Hunt called him a ‘weak-gutted dog’. Now he hopes they become teammates
Cronulla prop Royce Hunt has signed a three-year deal with Wests Tigers from 2025. And he hopes to be joined by his former nemesis.
Four torn hamstrings in a year: Why Sam Hughes’ story is stranger than fiction
The Bulldogs prop says Phil Gould was wrong when he suggested he’d injured himself at a rock concert.
Shortest Socceroo ready to make new doubters look silly
Josh Nisbet is used to being overlooked so he knew what to expect when his agent began floating his name to European clubs.
Have Your Say
‘We believe in him’: What went wrong and where to now for the Broncos
A season of such promise has ended in a heap. So what went wrong?
