Five-minute guide to the State Budget

TREASURER Curtis Pitt has unveiled his pre-election ‘jobs bonanza’ budget. This is everything you need to know.

Where’s the money being spent?

QUEENSLAND has recorded a surplus of $2.8 billion this financial year. Take a look at how the State Government plans to spend the cash.

Budget jobs bonanza? Not so much

BUDGET ANALYSIS: The Palaszczuk Government is like a rat on a spinning wheel. It’s peddling furiously ahead of a looming state election but its getting nowhere fast.

$1b to be spent fixing Brisbane roads

A THIRD of the Brisbane City Council’s upcoming $3 billion budget will be dedicated to improving the city’s road network.

Man charged for little boy’s murder

UPDATE: A MAN has been charged over the murder of a two-year-old boy, who was found with ‘horrific injuries’ in his home, south of Brisbane, in April 2015.

Reality behind the ‘dole bludger’ tag

FIGURES don’t lie, but in the case of the nation’s dole bludger capital, they can be deceptive.

Sorry, you can’t do that in public housing

A WOMAN has found out the hard way what you can’t do as a public housing tenant. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS

How revamped Maroons will line up

KEVIN Walters took the bizarre step of naming his 17-man squad in alphabetical order, but we can reveal the Maroons starting backline..

Move over ‘Tongan Thor’

AUSTRALIAN schoolboy Emosi Tuqiri packs 125kg of ball running, scrum crushing power. As this footage shows, his opponents don’t stand a chance.

Grab your boardies: $249 flights to Hawaii

If you’ve been thinking about what you’ll be spending your tax return on (never too early, right?) ... problem solved. Just call it paying it forward.