The extent of cowardly wife killer Andrew Cobby’s “vile fiction” have been laid bare in police recordings.

Rising inflation is set to hit Australians’ cost of living harder in the coming months, adding to existing pressure from soaring house and fuel prices. 

Labor has set up a special Queensland strategy group ahead of the looming federal election following its devastating 2019 drubbing that saw the party win just 20 per cent of the state’s seats. 

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palszczuk has been slammed for having no compassion after a traumatised young woman was forced to walk in pain across the border into NSW the day after a horror car crash. 

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The Palaszczuk Government has launched a health inquiry that will zero in on the problems plaguing Queensland’s under-pressure health system.

Tourism leaders have called on the State government to scrap a plan forcing interstate visitors to take expensive Covid tests amid predictions it will cost the industry millions of dollars a day. 

Jobseeker are being told to prepare for a major jobs boom ahead of the Christmas and Summer holiday season, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison signalling confidence the nation’s economy was reopening for good. 

William Tyrrell’s foster parents have been charged over the alleged assault of another child.

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The furious biological grandmother of William Tyrrell says she is glad detectives have turned their attention to a suspect she has had eyes on “from the beginning”.

Queenslanders are sitting ducks for a rebound horror flu season in a double whammy with surging Covid cases.

Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe says it’s “still plausible” official interest rates will not rise before 2024, but Australia still has some way to go until inflation targets are met. 

Major tourism operators are offering extraordinary incentives including free holidays and birthdays off to lure workers back to the industry as the sector faces its latest Covid crisis. 

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The State Government has been urged to open the domestic border earlier than planned to reward Queenslanders who have rolled up their sleeves to get the jab. More than 170 Australians have died from coward punch assaults since 2000. Brisbane can secure major infrastructure projects, build a world-class sport and entertainment hub and maintain its unique lifestyle under an Olympic opportunity never before offered to a global city. researchers believe they may have cracked a safe and cheap combination treatment to reduce the brain damage experienced by some newborns during birth.

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The state’s borders will reopen to returning Queenslanders earlier than planned after mandates denying unvaccinated people a beer and a pub meal drove thousands to get the jab. Tax cuts worth over $1000 to millions of Australians could be extended to avoid a hit to low and middle-income earners after next year’s election. The controversial former ABC riverfront site which the national broadcaster abandoned 14 years ago because of a cancer cluster will soon become a luxury riverfront apartment complex. Life in Brisbane in 10 years time will be more liveable, better connected, booming with new infrastructure and development and racing towards a population of 3.1 million according to new data.

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The Gold Coast is becoming the first example of how the state government handles unexplained cases in the new age of Covid as authorities race to determine the origin of two mystery cases recorded on Thursday. New world-leading capabilities created by the Australian Federal Police provided the crucial last piece of information that led to Mostafa Baluch’s capture at the Queensland border. University of Queensland graduates are among the highest paid in the country, earning well above the median salary. Olympic champion Cate Campbell says the obsession with the weight of female swimmers was real.

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Accused drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch was planning to sail from far north Queensland to Indonesia and then to Thailand, before finally taking a flight to eastern Europe to see powerful crime friends. A Brisbane carpenter charged with trafficking and weapons offences as part of Australia’s biggest ever crime bust, remains free and still able to work as a tradie. A  wildlife expert has detailed the “miracle” escape from the jaws of a 4m crocodile. Half of all Aussie teens now spend more time, or as much time, online with their friends rather than seeing them in person.

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Unvaccinated patrons and even business owners will be banned from pubs, clubs and restaurants under tough new rules. Queensland has taken back its spot as the most vaccine hesitant state in the nation after rates increased for the first time in almost two months. Aussie companies will be able to access up to $1bn to research and develop carbon capture and storage, feed that reduces methane emissions from livestock, smaller, better renewable energy batteries and other low emissions technology. Brisbane motorists will be under the pump to find petrol below $1.90 a litre by the weekend – with fuel prices set to break new eye-watering records.

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Queenslanders will be able to ditch their masks within days and breathe easier in schools, offices, cafes, shops, pubs and clubs.

 A Gold Coast dog breeder and a Lamborghini-driving Brisbane man are among five people charged over the dismantling of a multimillion-dollar cocaine trafficking network.

A South East Queensland childcare centre has been fined more than $15,000 after two toddlers wandered off the grounds and towards a busy road in Coomera Rivers.

Instagram has seen a dramatic slump in use by young Australians facing tough competition from Snapchat and TikTok.

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Queensland businesses are bracing for a sales trainwreck over Christmas because they have no idea what rules the Palaszczuk Government will enforce for vaccinated and unvaccinated people when borders open. 

A Cairns woman has been declared the source of a Covid cluster that plunged part of the Northern Territory into lockdown...

The father of twin daughters who died in a house fire had returned with his girlfriend from a bonfire at her Byron Bay commune to find smoke billowing from the bedroom where they slept. 

Police say they have smashed a southeast Queensland cocaine syndicate, seizing drugs, $1m in cash, designer watches and luxury cars including a Lamborghini. 

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