Support Services Reveal Heartbreaking Decisions Amid Housing Crisis 20/06/2022

A family has escaped injury after an out-of-control ute hit a power pole then ploughed into their home in Roma on Sunday night.

A reality TV star and ex fiance of former NRL player Todd Carney is recovering after she collapsed at her Gold Coast home last night.

There is no evidence suggested or discovered yet that indicates the poor practices of this third-term Palaszczuk government extend to brown paper bags of cash being exchanged for political favours.

Queensland families in desperate need of a home face the harrowing decision of leaving children at homeless shelters while the parents sleep in cars.

Up to 1200 social and affordable homes will be delivered in Queensland under a new commercial partnership that will leverage the Palaszczuk government’s $1bn Housing Investment Fund.

Hollywood megastar Orlando Bloom has been snapped strolling through a market and flexing his muscles before a gym session in Far North Queensland.

A vegan and vegetarian eatery with three Brisbane outlets has been fined $204,000 after it used bogus records to try to frustrate an investigation into short-changing a kitchenhand.

The Labor-aligned lobbying firm at the centre of accusations it is too close to the state government has talked down its success rate – saying it loses more pitches than it wins.

The clients of Labor-aligned lobbying firm Anacta range from short-stay accommodation player Airbnb to mining giant Glencore, the Gold Coast housing development Pacific View Estate and gambling company Tabcorp.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has used an interview on the Logies red carpet to reject claims she spends too much time on red carpets.

More than 2000 homes across Brisbane have been plunged into darkness after bamboo struck power mains in Auchenflower.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick has announced a $3.5 billion investment into the state’s rail network as part of the 2022-2023 State Budget - but many of the projects spruiked have previously been flagged.

Social media star Tammy Hembrow has announced the birth of her first child with fiance Matt Poole, as fellow Gold Coast influencer Ashy Bines also hints a new bub is imminent.

The inquiry into the embattled Queensland Building and Construction Commission has been completed by eminent academic Jim Varghese and there is great hope that it will recommend wholesale changes at board and executive level.

Police are appealing for information after the armed robbery of a man in the Moreton Bay Region on Friday.

Tonight will mark the end of an era in Queensland television, and it has nothing to do with the Logies.

In the days after a toddler tragically drowned at Ululah Lagoon, the community has shown its support for his grieving family, with more than $6000 being raised for the boy’s funeral.

Several people are in hospital and the Bruce Highway was closed for several hours after a horror 24 hours on Queensland roads.

Aussies Searching For Better Power Deals In Droves 19/06/2022

The two Lewis brothers took widely divergent paths through life, but football and family will always ensure Wally and Eddie are never far apart.

Carbuncles, sores, wounds, and burns and even constipation, piles, sore throats, and indigestion – nothing was too much for the famous papaw cures of Dr Thomas Pennington Lucas.

Australia’s biggest stars have flocked to Queensland ahead of tonight’s Logie Awards.

Brisbane Powerhouse will play host to a new night market, art installations, performance spaces and even an outdoor cinema, as part of a project to revitalise the New Farm precinct.

Former premier Peter Beattie has issued a call to Annastacia Palaszczuk and her team to embrace an innovative new agenda – warning that voters know when a government becomes “stale” and “will want someone else to have a go”.

Thousands of unused, abandoned and empty homes across Queensland could be returned to the market under a proposed scheme that would give councils the power to step in and go as far as seizing the property for sale.

Australians are hunting for better power deals in droves, new data has revealed, as retailers warn there are just days left before a guaranteed increase on electricity bills.

The Liberal National Party’s Bryson Head is set to become Queensland’s youngest MP after securing the state seat of Callide in a by-election.

A man who shot and killed two pet saltwater crocodiles and dumped their bloody carcasses outside a government building is now being investigated by wildlife officers.

A classic definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. By this standard, Australia’s energy policy is literally insane. More and more renewable energy over the past decade has made our power supply more expensive and less reliable.

A leading criminal expert has weighed in on the possible reasons behind a recent spate of drive-by shootings across South East Queensland, including one that targeted the home of boxing star Justis Huni.

An alleged Queensland drug smuggler has been given the green light to move interstate for a $240,000-a-year job he landed through mates.

With Australia’s energy crisis threatening to turn the lights out on one of the world’s most affluent nations, it’s prescient to throw out a few facts on how important the coal and gas industries are to the national economy.

Vulnerable young Queenslanders in out-of-home care will be supported by the government until they are 21 in a “momentous” move advocates say will give them the best chance at life.

One is a single mum who gets up at dawn to go to the gym every morning before dropping her kids off at school and heading to the office.

Motorists are facing major delays after a truck rolled at Macgregor in Brisbane’s south.

There are 99 homes that made it to  auction today, including Brisbane's first block of flats for women that was built by department store pioneer TC Beirne in the 1930s and an absolute riverfront home at New Farm, three doors down from the Merthyr Bowls Club.

Brisbane’s live auction coverage continues on Saturday as we follow Brisbane auctioneers Justin Nickerson, Christian Hamilton, Sam Kelso and Peter Burgin across Greater Brisbane.

It’s the most remote outpost of Queensland – an isolated paradise jutting out of the roaring Pacific Ocean where descendants of infamous mutineers now threaten a revolt against the might of the commonwealth.

Despite the worst rental crisis on record, about 87,000 ‘empty’ homes are not being put to work prompting calls for penalties against owners who don’t rent them out.

It’s the 12-page report that will make life a lot more difficult for the Queensland Labor Government.

Camera-clicking, koala-cuddling Japanese tourists once flocked to Queensland in their hundreds of thousands before being overtaken by China as our biggest international visitor market.

Strawberries rising to $11 a punnet is the latest hit to consumers at the checkout, with a “frustrating’” start to the year continuing to hit fruit and vegetable growers hard.

An explosive investigation by the state’s corruption watchdog has laid bare the disproportionate access key figures with political connections appear to have to the Queensland Labor Government.

It was like a scene from a horror movie with dead bats mysteriously dropping from the sky. They landed on a Brisbane park where the State Government has foolishly decided to build Queensland’s first vertical state primary school for 900 students.

Australian Border Force officers found a stash of cocaine in the air vents of a car carrier ship at the Port of Brisbane during an elaborate search that involved examining more than 900 vehicles.

Queensland Labor needs to better promote its environmental credentials to combat surging support for the Greens ahead of the 2024 state election, according to the party’s state president who suggested campaigning and polling techniques could change.

Spare me the Federal Labor Government’s blame game and the Greens’ mock indignation over energy prices.

Police are investigating the alleged dangerous driving of a vehicle north of Brisbane on Saturday afternoon.

Queensland Maroons star Reuben Cotter has announced the birth of his first child less than a week after his State of Origin debut.