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6th January 2025

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Bruce Hwy fix to start this year after $7.2bn pledge to upgrade deadly road

Major Bruce Highway upgrades will be funded in the 2025-26 state budget and begin by the end of the year after both sides of federal politics committed to a $7.2bn cash injection.

‘Enjoy the summer sun’: Crowe issues vague response to Bunnies bombshell

Hollywood star Russell Crowe has released a vague statement following the bombshell news that he wants to sell his multimillion-dollar share of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

$200k salary for a home: Qld workers priced out of 846 suburbs

Depressing new figures show that the average Queensland worker is now priced out of 846 suburbs across the state, and it will only get worse before it gets better. Here’s why.

‘Ozempic’s biggest night’: Golden Globes kicks off with scathing roast

The Golden Globes are under way with a racy monologue, as comedian Nikki Glaser gets stuck in to the A-list crowd. Follow live updates.

620 units, huge park: Biggest change in century for West End

Three massive unit towers and a huge riverfront public park have been proposed for an old West End concrete factory site as the area faces its biggest transformation in a century.

‘Get off the beach’: Fento’s spray as budget update still coming

Premier David Crisafulli and Treasurer David Janetzki told to ‘get off the beach’ and deliver a critical budget update delayed for the first time outside a natural disaster or Covi...

Activists deny role as police ramp up Magic Millions track investigation

Police will speak to current and former employees of the Gold Coast Turf Club as they investigate track damage that has placed Queensland’s most glamorous horse racing carnival und...

Russian disaster as Ukraine wipes out entire battalion

Ukraine claims it has wiped out a whole battalion of Russian and North Korean troops, pulverising them in a surprise attack about 100km past the Russian border at Kursk.

Slug from Snug, bad bat: Winners and losers from all-time Test series

Australia’s selectors are perpetually under fire but they made two crucial calls which turned the series. But, ROBERT CRADDOCK writes, Australia’s drought-breaking win over India m...

What Qld’s best entrepreneurs would do if they were starting from scratch

The state’s best business minds share their secrets to get ahead and what they’d do if they had to start again with just a dream.