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$15b JobKeeper expansion gives new Qld business lifeline
More Queensland businesses will qualify to stay on JobKeeper life support beyond September thanks to a $15 billion expansion of the scheme, it can be revealed. Find out how the new rules work.
$130m school’s opening at risk from ‘illegal’ strikes
The opening of a controversial $130 million school in former deputy premier Jackie Trad’s inner-Brisbane electorate could be delayed after alleged illegal strikes by the CFMEU, a court has heard. But the union tells a different story.
Watch as cop choker Kiwi given the boot
He choked a Brisbane policewoman after a wild, drunken pub brawl. Now this convicted Kiwi cop basher has been deported from Australia, along with dozens more.
Death and delays: Six Qld road fixes desperately needed
Six desperately needed Queensland major projects have been added to the national to-do list, including upgrades to killer highways, congestion-busting improvements for Brisbane’s north and a road so choked it is rated as suffering traffic overload on a national scale.
Jobs: Southeast in line for cut of $270b defence spend
A southeast Queensland company is in the running to score a lucrative contract for helicopters used in counter-terror operations as part of the Federal Government’s $270 billion defence spend over the next decade.
‘More Qld jobs will go’ if JobSeeker pain not addressed
Queensland’s economic recovery will be slower and more workers will lose their jobs, businesses are warning, as many struggle to find workers to fill vacancies while JobSeeker remains elevated.
LNP vote Cynthia Hardy as acting president
Cynthia Hardy is the new acting president of the LNP after a three-cornered contest following the resignation of Dave Hutchinson.
What Aussies must do to revive trans-Tasman travel bubble
A September travel bubble with New Zealand is not even “a remote possibility”, the Kiwis have bluntly declared. They have revealed a high bar for Aussies to jump to get across the ditch.
Race for LNP president widens
The man who tried to unseat former prime minister Kevin Rudd from his Brisbane electorate in 2013 has put his hand up to lead the LNP after the party’s president resigned on Friday after months of controversy.
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