A Trans-Tasman travel bubble could be in place in the first few months of next year with New Zealand cabinet agreeing “in principle” to allow quarantine-free travel from Australia in 2021.

Taxpayers have been slugged the accident excess for two Queensland politicians who crashed their private cars, and it’s all by the book.

The Palaszczuk Government has already broken an election promise, pushing back a February deadline to introduce voluntary assisted dying laws to the parliament.

Queensland’s wild weather has upended many interstate tourists long-awaited holiday plans in the Sunshine State.

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