State threatens to close coalmines

FOUR Queensland coal mines face closure and hundreds of jobs are at risk after two companies were accused of endangering the health of workers.

 
 
 

Law change ‘could have jailed Shorten’

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Bill Shorten could have faced jail time had the Government’s new laws on union corruption been in place when the Australian Workers’ Union pocketed $75,000 in secret payments.

 
 
 

Aussie Army: Men need not apply

EXCLUSIVE: The Australian Army has put a ban on male recruits in its politically correct push to increase female ranks including those on the frontline in combat roles.

 
 
 

Murdered mum had been to death site

DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Queensland mum Donna Steele say they’re “very confident” of solving the case, as more details of the events leading up to her body being found were revealed.

 
 
 

Paulini, the bikies and her jail fears

SINGER Paulini has been ­allegedly caught bribing a government official linked to an investigation into a violent bikie turf war.

 
 
 

Trump: ‘Maybe I wasn’t tough enough’

DONALD Trump has said he needs to get “tougher” on North Korea as a top general from the rogue nation accused the US president of going “senile.”

 
 
 
 

Damian Griffiths hit with legal claim

Brisbane hospitality player Damian Griffiths plans to fight a lawsuit filed by his former accountants which seeks more than $300,000.

 
 
 

Blair bidding war blows Broncos out of market

THE Courier-Mail can reveal Adam Blair has received a $2.4 million offer, with two clubs waging a big-money bidding war for his services.

 
 
 

Newman ghost haunts election pitch

LABOR has invoked the ghost of Campbell Newman to try to win another term of Government as speculation ramps up over the upcoming election date.

 
 
 

Own a piece of Brisbane history

IF the walls could talk, imagine the tales they’d tell the new owner of this home in one of Brisbane’s most significant historic buildings