Treasurer Jackie Trad has warned the impacts of the coronavirus on Queensland could be up to $1.7 billion.
Australia’s best hope of avoiding a coronavirus crisis is to maintain travel restrictions long enough for a new vaccine to lessen the impact on the health system.
An 11-year-old boy, allegedly caught on CCTV trying to rob a takeaway shop owner at knifepoint, has been granted bail 10 times in recent months, Townsville police say.
Around the world, Jacinda Ardern has received acclaim from those who see the charismatic New Zealand Prime Minister as a leader for the modern age.
Queensland Treasurer Jackie Trad has downplayed the prospect of a budget blowout for the massive Cross River Rail project despite the Government seizing control of construction.
Australian superannuation fund fees and costs are back under the microscope, which comes as no surprise as they really do matter when it comes to your future wealth.
The Federal Government’s new Financial Accountability Regime is supposed to stop bad behaviour in the financial services sector but it could have unintended consequences.
In a recent ruling the Australian Press Council has given a signal to gossip magazines it is OK to make up and publish rubbish about people, so long as the stories aren’t “blatantly incorrect”.
Is it ever acceptable for a man to “hit on” a boy?
Last week’s announcement in Canberra to fund an extra 100 places for rural medico trainees may be just what the doctor ordered people living in rural Australia thanks to some Queensland country ingenuity and “can-do”.
After city-based models of health care were identified as grossly inadequate for rural patients in Queensland, it was time for medical professionals to collaborate and assemble an unrivalled rural health workforce for the 21st century. Part two of our special report on rural health continues.
A new program in outback Queensland aims to bring “smaller” graziers together to reduce methane emissions and trade carbon credits.
Japanese company Mitsubishi Materials has dealt New Hope Group mining another blow by selling its $159 million stake in the company.
The Queensland Government promises to slash carbon emissions but it needs to keep burning coal to balance the books. It’s not clear how it’s going to resolve this tension.
Profits from BHP Coal have fallen dramatically and could have far-reaching impacts.
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.
