Instead of relying on tax-enhanced speculation, investors must now look at established properties based on actual profitability – leaving space for first home buyers
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Brisbane is edging closer to Australia’s most expensive place to buy a home but industry figures say the market is cooling following the federal government’s property tax overhaul designed to improve affordability.
Brisbane Economic Development Agency’s month-long food fest, Dine BNE City, is back for 2026, once again hawking all that is great and open late (or late-ish) in the CBD.
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: the use and non-use of artificial intelligence in department land, an own goal for the Games authority and all hands on deck for a bargaining agreement at City Hall.
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The Australian National University is offering cash handouts of up to $5000 for students to enrol in a single subject to shore up flagging demand after 18 months of scandals, headlines and resignations eroded its once-stellar reputation.
Former Victorian minister Danny Pearson spent his final months on the frontbench locked in a flurry of talks with global artificial intelligence and data centre giants, including hosting international executives at the Australian Open.
Labor MP Luba Grigorovitch will no longer provide character references after admitting she gave them for six people “I now know I shouldn’t have”, including a domestic abuser and a predatory taxi driver.
Legislation to fix Victoria’s broken electoral laws is at risk of another legal challenge, as the Coalition and advocates for independent MPs have declared Labor’s new changes worse than the laws they are replacing.
It would be nice to say better late than never, but even that isn’t true of Premier Jacinta Allan’s decision to finally concede Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog needs more powers to tackle graft on the $109 billion Big Build.
She’s known in Bacchus Marsh by the nickname Rockabilly, and Karellyn Dangar loves it because it’s her kind of music – rock ʼnʼ roll, infused with country and rhythm and blues.
The same day a former US beauty queen disappeared and was allegedly murdered, her boyfriend messaged his new girlfriend, talking to her about sharing a “long kiss”.
Melbourne International Film Festival organisers are investigating how the personal information of more than 26,000 customers was exposed by a hack of a ticket seller.
West Australian Premier Roger Cook admits ambulance ramping in the state is a “challenge”, as new figures reveal the time patients spent waiting to be admitted to hospital has again hit record highs.
Sacked City of Parramatta boss Gail Connolly said there were only a few more council staff to “get rid of and we will be on fire” as the “Pink Ladies play the long game”, according to text messages aired at an anti-corruption inquiry.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek to capitalise on the election of a new Australia-friendly Solomon Islands leader by launching talks on a new treaty agreement and reviving a stalled policing deal aimed at curtailing China’s influence in the strategically crucial nation.
Maquinaria pesada llega al Parque Victoria para el inicio de los preparativos de construcción del Estadio Olímpico de 2032, en Victoria Park, Australia, el lunes 1 de junio de 2026. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)