Jeannette Young was planning overseas trips with her husband, a professor of microbiology, when they heard of a new virus in Wuhan, China. She would have to break a promise made to him a decade earlier.
Health giant CSL has signed an agreement to start manufacturing the University of Queensland’s vaccine contender – first for clinical trials, then potentially the world.
More than 8000 people have said they’ll attend a Black Lives Matter protest in Brisbane despite coronavirus restrictions on large public gatherings.
For years, Australia’s Big Four banks have been seen as the bluest of Blue Chips, thanks largely to their reliable stream of dividends.
From NRL coach of the year to two flies crawling up the wall, gambling has taken over our love of sport, and not necessarily for the better, writes Michael Blucher
Canterbury great Terry Lamb will be tested for coronavirus after breaking strict biosecurity guidelines at a Bulldogs training session on Thursday.
Schoolies week on the Gold Coast looks set to go ahead by default, with civic leaders seemingly powerless to stop the November event.
Police are calling for a major community campaign to address the “gangster mindset” of teens amid a rash of Queensland cases of “reprehensible” violence where the crimes are being encouraged, filmed and shared to social media.
With one eye on history, it’s not hard to see how Brisbane can turn adversity into the recipe for a better city, writes Jon Davies
Under fire for her stance on keeping Queensland borders closed, it seems Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was backing a winner all along, writes Dennis Atkins
Women in Digital founder and CEO Holly Tattersall lifts the veil on what it was like to have a virtual wedding
Water woes confronting the Palaszczuk Government over its dodgy Paradise Dam won’t evaporate any time soon. Brad Cooper investigates
After their first decent rains following a decade of drought, farmers in Queensland’s west are now watching helplessly as green pastures are decimated by a grasshopper plague. Nicole Bond reports
China’s beef trade ban will cause some short-term pain but shouldn’t deter our red meat suppliers from making a killing in other export markets still largely untapped, writes Brad Cooper
The selection of the final two bidders for Virgin was a best-scenario outcome for the state, with both co-operating in talks with QIC about keeping the airline’s base in Queensland.
Aurizon has refinanced $1.3 billion in debt, adding an extra $420 million to its previous level, and signaled that the Queensland coal industry remained buoyant throughout the COVID-19 shutdown.
Australia has an historic opportunity to build a new, export-focused manufacturing sector based on renewable energy.
Forty years ago, Queensland was a punchline for sophisticated southerners. But a growing economy and new premier, Wayne Goss, changed all that. Robert MacDonald was there the night the joke ended.
For too long, Queensland was the butt of wisecracks from the cultural elitists in Sydney and Melbourne. But the joke is, and always has been, on them.
On Valentine’s Day 2019 the sun came out after 3 weeks of torrential rain over northern Queensland. But there was no love from the people in the north west for the water they’d been praying for.
