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Best-selling crime writer Chris Hammer at lunch at The Graham Hotel, Port Melbourne.

The River: Chris Hammer, crime writer, returns to the source

The author of Scrublands is among Australia’s top crime writers. But his fiction may never have emerged without his early non-fiction. And a jolt from the man who would become the celebrated master of crime novels, Peter Temple.

  • Tony Wright

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Premier-elect David Crisafulli and his deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, speak to the media at Parliament House on the morning after October’s state election.

Can Queensland workers count on the LNP’s respect? This year they’ll find out

As negotiations between state employees and the first-year government ramp up, hints of the LNP’s previously slim industrial relations agenda are also starting to emerge.

  • Matt Dennien
The Story Bridge, one of the major arterials linking the north and south sides of Brisbane.

Brisbane, why don’t you cross the river?

Our city has a lot happening on both sides of the river, yet it seems many of us rarely explore the other. What’s going on?

  • Matt Shea
Officers allege the 19-year-old was seen riding an illegal bike down Elizabeth Street in Brisbane.

E-bikes shouldn’t be banned. The illegal ones are already illegal

I can go online now and buy a 10,000-watt e-bike and just ignore the note that says it’s illegal to ride it on the street. Illegal e-bikes are flooding Australia, and they’re muddying the water for everyone riding legally.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Recent news has left many Australians questioning their child’s safety in early education settings, as the sector and governments scramble to address concerns.

How do you choose a safe childcare centre?

One mum toured 11 facilities, another opted to “stay and play”. Both wanted to ensure their child’s safety in a system that now seems broken.

  • Courtney Kruk
Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing graphic.

Rocky waters ahead for Brisbane 2032’s Olympic rowing plan

The LNP has doubled – and tripled – down on its decision to host Olympic rowing on Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River, but there could be choppy waters ahead for the plan.

  • Cameron Atfield
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The kind of crowds I feel like I have to face every time I walk down Queen Street Mall.

Is the Brisbane CBD really ‘dead’?

If it is suffering a slow death, someone might want to tell Wendy’s, after announcing a store in the heart of the city this week.

  • Courtney Kruk
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All the glamour and pageantry from the Bezos-Sanchez wedding

Catch up on all the celebrity action from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s half-a-billion dollar Venice wedding over the weekend.

The LNP’s shared equity scheme will only be available for 1000 people.

Will the LNP’s new scheme help me become a first-home buyer?

The shared equity scheme promises to help first homeowners break into the property market, but is it all it’s cracked up to be?

  • Courtney Kruk
Feet-first through the doughnut.

Leave your scans to the experts: An idiot’s guide to doing the stupid thing

I am not a doctor. This is one of many reasons why. This is the story of a number, the angst it caused and the idiot who didn’t know what it meant.

  • Cameron Atfield

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