Premier in $1m chopper ride
A HELICOPTER trip for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk over the Far North Queensland flood zone that should have cost $4500 has ended up setting taxpayers back more than $1 million.
QR drivers rolling in $200k pay
QUEENSLAND Rail drivers earned up to almost $200,000 last financial year, including a whopping $75,000 in overtime alone, new figures show.
Pure pride at the heart of royal relay
INSPIRATIONAL volunteers are among the special Queenslanders bearing the Queen’s Baton across the state in the lead up to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.
Lodge denies ex-girlfriend assault claims
BRISBANE footballer Matt Lodge has maintained claims he has never assaulted “any woman” as it emerged ex-partner Charlene Saliba told lawyers that he had never hit her and called him her...
The reason Georgie Gardner is a ‘fence-sitter’
EMBARRASSED Today Show host Karl Stefanovic might have called his co-host Georgie Gardner“a fence-sitter”, but the 44-year-old likes to drive the show in neutral for a very good reason. ...
Moment Troy’s wife swap begins
AFTER a brutal blow to Ashley, Troy thought he had a clean break for a fling with another wife. But he may have “dry humped” too soon.
NSW dumpers told to truck off
A WASTE levy will be reintroduced in Queensland in a bid to stop “unscrupulous” interstate dumpers bringing NSW rubbish across the border.
Monsour and the missing millions
THE brother-in-law of former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has been named in a lawsuit from a wealthy entrepreneur who is alleging “misleading and deceptive conduct” over the use of...
Forgotten pocket where homes sell for under $450K
THE pub was built in 1888, the church has been going since the 1870s and the local school is one of the state’s oldest. What’s more, this historical Brisbane suburb also has a median hou...
New high school may offer selective entry
A PROPOSED high school for South Brisbane has outraged residents following claims it could boast a selective-entry cohort and not respond to the area’s overcrowding issues.
The power players who want Hunt gone
DRUG-tainted Karmichael Hunt has a free pass to return to play but a bloc of rugby powerbrokers has already voted he never represent the Queensland Reds again.
