The Property Council has lashed the government’s budget plan to increase foreign investor land tax surcharge to offset new stamp duty concessions for first home buyers, warning it will drive up house prices.
He might have come from a humble home and started with a Brisbane state school education, but is Treasurer Cameron Dick’s political ambition as modest?
A venerable old Queenslander will raise the Australian flag on a beach in France on Thursday as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
Former premier Campbell Newman says his decision to show thousands of public servants the door was the right call due to one key outcome.
Peter Morley, described as “the most influential Queensland journalist of his generation’’, has been farewelled by more than 100 mourners at a funeral in Brisbane.
Tributes are pouring in for Peter Morley, a giant of Queensland journalism and former Courier-Mail political editor, who died in his home north of Brisbane on Wednesday aged 77.
There are times when it’s prudent to cut the political talk and just focus on the beef, writes Michael Madigan. WELCOME TO HIGH STEAKS
This is the explosive moment inside Flight Centre’s war room when, as the Covid pandemic hit and borders started to slam shut around the world, 15,000 staff had to go.
In an exclusive interview, Peter Dutton reveals the moments that shaped his unflinching views of the world and created the hard-cop image used by some to elevate, others to diminish.
A famous Queensland gold mine that closed more than 30 years ago likely still contains billions of dollars worth of the precious metal. Now, with new technology, and the lure of possible 2032 Olympics fame, it is set to be reignited, creating 400 jobs.
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