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An expansion of youth crime laws, the scrapping of the state’s drug diversion program and new police powers to crack down on “anti-social behaviour” are among changes set out in a bill to be debated when parliament returns this week.
Claims by Rebel Wilson that a young Australian actress was sexually harassed by a producer but then hid it to better her career are "malicious concoctions", a Sydney court has heard on the first day of a defamation case against the Hollywood star.
Sitting on a dusty wooden table inside a shipping container are two vitamin bottles – one of odourless wild fish oil, the other magnesium.
Queensland has secured four huge machines worth hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the state’s power system stable when it transitions to renewable energy and avoid the chaotic delays forced on the planned shutdown of the Eraring generator in NSW.
Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: department boss disclosures, a CFMEU probe doc of interest, appointment watch, and a bureaucrat only bar.
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The 82-year-old was accused of abusing girls in the 1960s but was acquitted in Perth despite judge finding the alleged victim was probably telling the truth
A student barks at a teacher for an answer without raising a hand or asking “please”. On the bus home, a teenager sprawls across two seats as an elderly woman stands.
Hundreds of government schools across Victoria will shut for half a day at a time during May and June as educators walk off the job again as part of their fight for a better deal on pay and working conditions.
Foreign airlines are already cancelling flights and reducing schedules to Australia, raising the prospect of more disruption if the fuel shock from the US-Israel war on Iran is not resolved by May.
Draft legislation for treasurer Jim Chalmers’ new instant tax deduction policy lands just over a year after Labor proposed the change in the run-up to the 2025 election
Greens criticise premier’s ‘extraordinary attack’ on judiciary and urge him to accept he ‘got it wrong’
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There are two things crucial to modern farming - synthetic fertiliser and diesel. So what happens when both of these commodities increase massively in price, but the crops they're used to grow remains the same price? That's precisely the dilemma facing Australian farmers as they prepare to plant their winter crops f…
Teachers at one of Melbourne’s most expensive girls’ schools fighting for higher pay say their working conditions fail to support female educators.
Stephen Fane Noga (right) and the State of Tasmania have been jointly ordered to pay more than a million dollars to the plaintiff. (ABC News: Monty Jacka)
Volkan Aksoy had big dreams for the future, a love for movies and TV shows, and planned to travel to Japan with friends from high school this year.
A Brisbane childcare worker accused of sexually abusing children had allegedly played a game called ‘doctors’ with multiple kids, before a mother walked in on one incident, a jury has heard.
Donald Trump’s popularity in Australia has plunged to its lowest level of his second term as US president due to the war in Iran, as most Australians remain unconvinced the nation’s military should play a role in helping to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Slater says investment would improve rugby league standards
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Dalaroo Metals is pulling the trigger on its next growth phase, appointing seasoned geologist Trystan Hughes as exploration manager for its Greenland and Western Australian portfolios. The move coincides with a technical update from its Blue Lagoon project. Early results confirmed the presence of a sediment-hosted c…
Red Metal has burst into 2026 with a technically encouraging maiden drilling campaign at its Pulkarrimarra copper gold project in Western Australia’s red-hot Paterson Province.
A pilot has died in a helicopter crash south of Jericho in western Queensland.
Bradley Dusan Fletcher (pictured) has admitted to the to the lesser charge of manslaughter, but denies he intentionally hurt Bradley Evennett. (Facebook)
CCTV footage shows a boy dangling from the rear doors of a moving bus in Melbourne, Australia.
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The AFL Tribunal hears a high-profile appeal against Port Adelaide's Zak Butters's fine for abusing an umpire.
A police officer fired eight shots at a woman when she refused to put down a knife during a fatal stabbing attack on her mother, a coroner has been told.
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Eight months after closing its outrageously popular Brunswick Mall kiosk, sushi shop Tochi Deli resurfaced. The new site, further north in Coburg, is also within a mall, but handily, it faces a car park and the first three hours of parking are free.
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For well over a decade, growth in Geelong has been going gangbusters. The regional city’s outer suburbs have expanded rapidly, eating into previously open green space.
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Australian trainer chases third straight win with in-form galloper on Wednesday night before saddling up My Wish and Invincible Ibis in Sunday’s Group One
Australian trainer chases third straight win with in-form galloper on Wednesday night before saddling up My Wish and Invincible Ibis in Sunday’s Group One
At the start of the year, 12-year-old Nathaniel took a big step in his independence – catching the bus to school by himself.
Payne Haas will miss a chunk of the season for the Brisbane Broncos, not to mention being ruled out of Origin I for NSW. (Getty Images: Izhar Khan)
Newspaper broke embargo on confidential briefing note about the royal couple’s movements five days before they arrived in Melbourne for their Australia visit
Kuala Lumpur: Former Shell executive and ex-Malaysian minister Idris Jala says Australia should use the global energy crisis to tax the windfall profits of gas giants, dismissing the industry’s claims that it would scare off investment and jeopardise trade with Asian neighbours.
True North Copper has cleared the path for a major, integrated open-pit operation at its Cloncurry copper project in Queensland after striking a strategic deal to buy out Renegade Exploration’s 22.5 per cent stake in the Carpentaria Joint Venture.
Australia’s largest retailers, manufacturers and mining companies will be forced to pay truckers more to compensate for spiralling fuel costs after the Fair Work Commission issued a landmark that could add further pressure to inflation.
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End of war ‘can’t come soon enough’, treasurer says, as inflation expected to rise above 5% in Australia with global supply chains buffeted
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Accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, was shot outside NSW Police headquarters in Parramatta on October 2, 2015. (AAP: David Moir)
Head of newly formed institution questions whether naming is ‘reflective of our current reality’ amid criticism of ‘shameful’ fossil fuel company promotion
Netball Australia CEO Stacey West, Amanda Laing from Nine, Netball Australia chair Liz Ellis and ANPA president Jo Weston at the new broadcast announcement in Sydney. (Instagram: Netball Australia)