Residents ‘p***ed off’ over high-rise
A GROUP of affluent inner-city residents have turned out to protest against a proposed high-rise development overlooking a heritage-listed building in an area that has become a lightning rod...
Union slams Palaszczuk’s new ministry
QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s new Labor Cabinet has come under fire from her own side, with one of the country’s most powerful unions saying some ministers are “not up for...
A beginner's guide to the NBL
IT was way back in 1979 that 10 Australian basketball clubs came together to form the National Basketball League.
Titans snare Jarryd Hayne replacement
JARRYD Hayne is officially yesterday’s man on the Gold Coast after the Titans secured Sydney Roosters fullback Michael Gordon.
Daredevil dies in stunt gone wrong
WELL known in China for his death-defying stunts, a slight slip was all it took for Wu Yongning to fall from a 62-storey skyscraper.
Dastyari latest victim of Labor curse
FOR the past 40 years, almost all who’ve held the position of NSW Labor general secretary have been shuffled off through either scandal or political expediency. Sam Dastyari is just the la...
Fine Cotton’s trainer dead at 72
HAYDEN Haitana, the man at the centre of Australia’s most notorious betting scandal — the Fine Cotton affair — is dead, aged 72.
Dam engineers ‘saved us billions’: Court
DAM engineers at Wivenhoe and Somerset dams saved southeast Queenslanders $5.5 billion in property loss and damage during the January 2011 deluge, yet were attacked by “armchair critics,�...
Horn v Corcoran: everything you need to know
JEFF HORN will defend his World Boxing Organisation welterweight title against Englishman Gary Corcoran at the Brisbane Convention Centre on December 13.
Several ‘persons of interest’ in teen’s cold case
AN inquest into the mysterious death of Queensland teenager Annette Mason has been reopened this morning and details of extensive investigations spanning almost 30 years have been revealed.
Brisbane beat Sydney last quarter
BRISBANE property prices grew at a faster rate than Sydney last quarter, official data out today has found.
