Matter of seconds between safety and disaster
A POLICE officer has told the Dreamworld inquiry if the ride operator had pressed an emergency button any time up to the final three seconds before the raft was “dragged into the mechanism...
Owners paid thousands, sold for millions
A RETIRED couple have walked away with a record price in Brisbane’s east after selling the family home site to make way for 32 new houses.
Telstra hit by another mobile outage
TELSTRA customers are facing yet another mobile phone outage amid reports the company’s 3G and 4G networks are struggling to connect users in almost all Australian capitals.
Rail recruitment’s fail by numbers
DESPITE attempts to turn things around, new figures show it’s still a man’s world on Brisbane’s railway. The Government has defended the gap.
Apple fined $9m for iPhone deception
TECH giant Apple will be forced to cough up $9 million for misleading Australian customers, in a win that could also unlock cheap iPhone repairs.
Labor steps in amid $1.2b resort battle
THE Palaszczuk Government has officially called in a $1.2 billion tourism project on a Queensland island, in a bid to avoid lengthy court delays.
Ponga carries heavy weight
BY PICKING 20-year-old Kalyn Ponga for the must-win Game 2 on Sunday, Queensland coach Kevin Walters is pretty much saying: “We’re in a big hole son. It’s up to you to get us out,” w...
Plans for Suncorp to ‘own’ NRL in 2019
QUEENSLAND can own the first half of the 2019 rugby league season if the state Government helps revive this concept at Suncorp Stadium.
What led to Optus’ World Cup fail
AS TOP Optus executives and technicians scrambled behind the scenes to stem the outrage from football fans, the telco ran out of time.
Images of caged kids causing uproar in US
HEARTBREAKING new photos reveal the shocking conditions being experienced by immigrant children in detention in the US — conditions that the White House insists are “humane”.
