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How your choice of partner could lead to your financial doom

As the rising cost of living bites, leaving everyday Aussies “scared as hell”, Des Houghton speaks to money legend Noel Whittaker, who says younger couples must be on the “same wavelength” or risk financial failure.

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Palaszczuk’s Olympic decision a naked power grab

It’s nearly two years since Brisbane won the 2032 Olympics bid but the Premier is wearing her promises of accountability about its delivery like a cheap perfume, writes Des Houghton.

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Insider spills on union influence behind key Palaszczuk policy

A former Labor press secretary claims secrecy triumphed over transparency as unions dictated policy inside the Palaszczuk government, writes Des Houghton.

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A head for newspapers: The man who tells and sells our stories

Baz McAlister’s headline-writing skills have won him a swag of awards and nominations over the past decade. Check them out.

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‘I’ll never forgive them’: Sacked mayor tells of dying mum’s heartbreak

Fallen Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland has revealed the toll taken on his family by corruption charges – and how he believes he was set up.

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Tributes flow for man who founded Dreamworld and changed Qld forever

Queensland tourism soared when serial entrepreneur John Longhurst acted on a vision and built Dreamworldon the Gold Coast. After his death aged 89 this week, we should remember him as a true visionary, writes Des Houghton.

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‘Could have been used on hospitals’: Has the Premier bought Qld a $200m white elephant?

With huge changes to quarantine rules for international arrivals, the once essential quarantine facility at Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport seems past its used-by date – and one of the state’s top docs says the millions could have been much better spent.

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‘Absolute insanity’: Nurse faces sack for attending anti-vax rally

A Queensland Health nurse threatened with the sack for attending a rally is only the latest example of our human rights being trampled, writes Des Houghton.

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Crumbling walls, exploding fire systems: State’s apartment time bomb

Queensland’s apartment sector is rife with defects due to shoddy construction work, and holding anyone to account is almost impossible.

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Interstate scandal that should make Queensland Labor very nervous

Claims of Victorian Labor misusing taxpayer funds to campaign for re-election bear striking similarities to a Queensland case, writes Des Houghton.

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‘Abandon ship!’: Horrific moment Navy patrol boat demolished

After finding himself in the middle of one of the most destructive cyclones to ever hit Australia, the commanding officer of this Queensland-built Navy boat had to make a fateful decision.

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X-factor missing: Queensland’s leaders fail the Churchill test

It’s critical to a functioning democracy, but this ingredient is sorely lacking in Queensland politics, writes Kylie Lang.

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‘Don’t know why I lost’ – but Sallyanne tops latest election

Popular lord mayor Sallyanne Atkinson is still mystified as to why voters rejected her in 1991. But in her latest election she topped the poll.

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Games blowout: When ‘best practice’ means ‘snouts in the trough’

Queensland Labor’s best-practice principles for the Brisbane Olympics should be renamed the comrades’-snouts-in-the-trough enabling laws, writes Des Houghton.

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