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Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells, PM defend using taxpayer funds to bring family to ski resort
Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Emma Lovell murder case heads to High Court after teen killer’s sentence cut
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Morning, here's what's headlines today:
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Brisbane 2032 Olympics adopts church slogan as ‘Games vision’
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Morning, here's what's headlines today:
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
How Brisbane’s 20 biggest high schools performed in national tests
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Police are this morning on the scene of a reported shooting in a park south of Brisbane.
Man dead after shooting in park
Police have arrested a man after a fatal shooting in a park south of Brisbane overnight.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Police are this morning on the scene of a reported shooting in a park south of Brisbane.
BREAKING: A man has received life-threatening injuries following a retaining wall collapse on a worksite in South Brisbane.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING: A man has received life-threatening injuries following a retaining wall collapse on a worksite in South Brisbane.
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Brisbane electric car sales go backwards for first time
Every previous year over the past decade sales went up – often by enormous margins.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Good morning - here is a quick wrap of what's making headlines in Brisbane today.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
Brisbane Airport relaxes wind rules in bid to reduce aircraft noise
More flights will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to reduce noise over city suburbs.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Good morning - here is a quick wrap of what's making headlines in Brisbane today.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
Speaking on Sunday with his new LNP colleague, Wayde Chiesa, Crisafulli said the win showed his government was on the right path.
LNP extends parliamentary majority with ‘emphatic’ byelection win
Premier David Crisafulli is celebrating after his sitting government became the first to win a byelection since 1998.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Speaking on Sunday with his new LNP colleague, Wayde Chiesa, Crisafulli said the win showed his government was on the right path.
Good morning, here are our top stories to help you while away your Sunday.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
The real reason Albanese kept his wedding top secret
It was the worst-kept secret in political circles, but somehow, everyone agreed to stay shtum about the wedding.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good morning, here are our top stories to help you while away your Sunday.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
Here's what's making headlines this morning:
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
Teenager wounded at large Brisbane house party
The boy’s alleged attacker fled the scene before police broke up the party in Clayfield overnight.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here's what's making headlines this morning:
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
Here's what's making headlines this Friday:
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Security fears over Chinese-made Brisbane buses dismissed as xenophobic
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Here's what's making headlines this Friday:
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
After days of spring storms, weather forecasters are again warning Brisbane could get lashed by another severe thunderstorm.
After days of spring storms, weather forecasters are again warning Brisbane could get lashed by another severe thunderstorm.
More storms predicted as city set to swelter through another day of extreme heat
After days of spring storms, weather forecasters are again warning Brisbane could get lashed by another severe thunderstorm.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
After days of spring storms, weather forecasters are again warning Brisbane could get lashed by another severe thunderstorm.
After days of spring storms, weather forecasters are again warning Brisbane could get lashed by another severe thunderstorm.
Good morning, here's what's made headlines overnight:
The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.
The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.
Council forcibly bought the Georges’ land in 2012. They just sold it to the biggest pub in town for less
The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Good morning, here's what's made headlines overnight:
The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.
The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.
Here's what's been making headlines this Tuesday:
The teenager accused of murdering the Universal Store co-founder will be assessed by a psychiatrist in the week before Christmas.
The teenager accused of murdering the Universal Store co-founder will be assessed by a psychiatrist in the week before Christmas.
‘Complex issues at play’: Teen accused of killing Greg Josephson to see psychiatrist
The teenager accused of murdering the Universal Store co-founder will be assessed by a psychiatrist for the first time in the week before Christmas.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Here's what's been making headlines this Tuesday:
The teenager accused of murdering the Universal Store co-founder will be assessed by a psychiatrist in the week before Christmas.
The teenager accused of murdering the Universal Store co-founder will be assessed by a psychiatrist in the week before Christmas.
Good morning. Here are some of the headlines making news today.
Residents on Brisbane’s bayside fringe are incensed over plans to allow new 15-storey apartment towers, with many saying it would completely change their laid-back neighbourhood of weatherboard Queenslanders.
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Residents on Brisbane’s bayside fringe are incensed over plans to allow new 15-storey apartment towers, with many saying it would completely change their laid-back neighbourhood of weatherboard Queenslanders.
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NIMBYism or valid fears? The 15-storey plan that has this bayside community seeing red
Incensed residents say high-rises will change the character of their village and ruin their way of life. The council argues more housing is needed.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Good morning. Here are some of the headlines making news today.
Residents on Brisbane’s bayside fringe are incensed over plans to allow new 15-storey apartment towers, with many saying it would completely change their laid-back neighbourhood of weatherboard Queenslanders.
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Residents on Brisbane’s bayside fringe are incensed over plans to allow new 15-storey apartment towers, with many saying it would completely change their laid-back neighbourhood of weatherboard Queenslanders.
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Good morning, here are our top stories this Sunday.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Good morning, here are our top stories this Sunday.
In a 10-minute video, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she didn’t want her “sweet” congressional district “to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit US Congress after fallout with Trump
Greene cited the US president’s threat of political retribution if she sought re-election, sparking questions about her next moves. Trump, meanwhile, said it was “great news for the country”.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
In a 10-minute video, Marjorie Taylor Greene said she didn’t want her “sweet” congressional district “to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for”.
Yay, it's the weekend! Here are our top stories to set you up for a great day. Happy reading.
After a week of frantic searching, the German shepherd was found in a quiet Fortitude Valley street, across the road from an erotic massage parlour.
After a week of frantic searching, the German shepherd was found in a quiet Fortitude Valley street, across the road from an erotic massage parlour.
The grey Valley backstreet where Arnie died in his owners’ black ute
After a week of frantic searching, the German shepherd was found in a quiet Fortitude Valley street, across the road from an erotic massage parlour.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Yay, it's the weekend! Here are our top stories to set you up for a great day. Happy reading.
After a week of frantic searching, the German shepherd was found in a quiet Fortitude Valley street, across the road from an erotic massage parlour.
After a week of frantic searching, the German shepherd was found in a quiet Fortitude Valley street, across the road from an erotic massage parlour.
State Coroner Terry Ryan handed down the findings of his inquest in Brisbane on Friday, more than a year after wrapping up the hearings.
Wieambilla ambush not an act of religious terrorism, coroner finds
State Coroner Terry Ryan handed down the findings of his inquest in Brisbane on Friday, more than a year after wrapping up the hearings.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
State Coroner Terry Ryan handed down the findings of his inquest in Brisbane on Friday, more than a year after wrapping up the hearings.
Good morning.
School parents have urged the government to scrap plans to build residential towers on a prime parcel of land, calling instead for the former factory site to be turned into playing fields.
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School parents have urged the government to scrap plans to build residential towers on a prime parcel of land, calling instead for the former factory site to be turned into playing fields.
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Top Brisbane school wants playing fields – not units – at riverside site
The school is hoping to override Queensland government plans to build thousands of new apartments on the former factory site on the banks of the Brisbane River.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Good morning.
School parents have urged the government to scrap plans to build residential towers on a prime parcel of land, calling instead for the former factory site to be turned into playing fields.
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School parents have urged the government to scrap plans to build residential towers on a prime parcel of land, calling instead for the former factory site to be turned into playing fields.
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Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has accused Labor’s Hinchinbrook candidate of threatening to kill a young volunteer at an election booth.
‘Shocked and ashamed’: Labor candidate threatens to ‘take out’ LNP volunteer
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has accused Labor’s Hinchinbrook candidate of threatening to kill a young volunteer at an election booth.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has accused Labor’s Hinchinbrook candidate of threatening to kill a young volunteer at an election booth.
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que... Across Brisbane’s private schools, fee increases in 2026 will average 5.8 per cent – well above the city’s current inflation rate of 4.7 per cent.
Brisbane’s most expensive schools outstrip inflation as fees soar past $35,000
Across Brisbane’s private schools, fee increases in 2026 will average 5.8 per cent – well above the city’s current inflation rate of 4.7 per cent.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que... Across Brisbane’s private schools, fee increases in 2026 will average 5.8 per cent – well above the city’s current inflation rate of 4.7 per cent.
The mysterious case of a stolen ute and missing dog later found dead has taken a twist, with police revealing they no longer believe the story told by the animal’s owners.
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Arnie dog death was inside job, police now claim
The owner did several media interviews pleading with the alleged thief to come forward – but police now believe he knew more than he was letting on.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The mysterious case of a stolen ute and missing dog later found dead has taken a twist, with police revealing they no longer believe the story told by the animal’s owners.
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Good morning. Here are some of the day's early headlines.
Environment Minister Murray Watt will claim the Coalition’s “merry band of climate deniers” will pressure the Queensland government to follow Canberra and ditch its net zero pledge.
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Environment Minister Murray Watt will claim the Coalition’s “merry band of climate deniers” will pressure the Queensland government to follow Canberra and ditch its net zero pledge.
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‘Dracula in charge of the blood bank’: Watt claims Queensland will ditch net zero
The Environment Minister will unleash a wide-ranging attack on rivals’ climate policies in a speech on Thursday.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Good morning. Here are some of the day's early headlines.
Environment Minister Murray Watt will claim the Coalition’s “merry band of climate deniers” will pressure the Queensland government to follow Canberra and ditch its net zero pledge.
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Environment Minister Murray Watt will claim the Coalition’s “merry band of climate deniers” will pressure the Queensland government to follow Canberra and ditch its net zero pledge.
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