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Inside the plan to pull $2bn from Whitsundays tourists by 2032

Inside the plan to pull $2bn from Whitsundays tourists by 2032

One of Queensland’s most famous tourism destinations wants to up visitor spending and drastically reduce its carbon footprint. Are both possible?

HOLDING FOR THE SUNDAY MAIL - High Steaks lunch with former Premier Campbell Newman at The Crown Hotel, Lutwyche Thursday 30th May 2024 Picture David Clark

‘Why culling thousands of public servants was the right call’

Former premier Campbell Newman says his decision to show thousands of public servants the door was the right call due to one key outcome.

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Packed to the rafters with koalas anytime now: Star’s tree change

Having swapped a sea change for a tree change, tennis great Pat Rafter and his wife are giving back to the land.

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Western Sydney Airport risks becoming our ‘ghost city’

The multibillion-dollar Western Sydney Aerotropolis may become a “China-like ghost city” – according to planning experts – amid desperate calls for clarity on vital infrastructure links.

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We can read the ‘fingerprints’ of your mind

HOW do we tell the difference between people who will one day commit a terrorist act, and those who are merely blowing hot air? Researchers have given us an answer.

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A computer generated image of the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD). The project will deliver three world-class ships and their support systems to the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN). Mid Caption: The Air Warfare Destroyer project is currently the largest Defence procurement project in Australia. Approximately 2,600 people are employed directly on the AWD project throughout Australia, including a national AWD shipyard production workforce of about 1,700 people in Adelaide, Newcastle and Melbourne. The project is being delivered under an Alliance contract arrangement between the Commonwealth of Australia (represented by the Defence Materiel Organisation) as owner-participant, ASC and Raytheon Australia.

Big problem with Australia’s defence force

Australia’s defence force exists “to deter, deny and defeat any attempt by a hostile country or non-state actor to attack, threaten or coerce us”. But things are changing fast.

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Australia embraces ‘killer robots’

Australia embraces ‘killer robots’

They’re lethal, cheap and smart. Australia’s air force will become one of the first in the world to put ‘killer robots’ in the skies alongside its combat pilots.

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Corporate algorithms verus government: is it our destiny to be citizens, or consumers? Artwork for longform.

How AI is already seizing power

Do you trust Tesla with your life? Facebook as a police force? Does Google offer good government? So why are we giving their algorithms so much unaccountable control over our society?

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Hypersonic projectiles are shown plunging towards a US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The Pentagon admits it has no defence against these weapons.

War just changed, forever

They’re difficult to detect. Even harder to hit. And dodging them may not be an option. Hypersonic weapons have arrived. And they could send warfare back to the trenches.

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PARRAMATTA ADVERTISER/AAP. Site Officer Peter Brown inspects the upper levels of Wing 6 for anything out of place at the Old Parramatta Gaol in North Parramatta. North Parramatta, Friday 31 May, 2019. Feature on Old Parramatta Gaol. Deerubbin Land Council CEO Stephen Wright at the wing of the old gaol where he's encountered some paranormal activities. (AAP IMAGE / Angelo Velardo)

How ghosts are driving out old Sydney jail owners

Paranormal activity at the Old Parramatta Gaol has got so rampant that the “house full” sign has now gone up on ghosts as some Aboriginal people refuse to go on site after dark.

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Paddington Gallery owner Roslyn Oxley. Lunch with Leo. Leo Schofield dines with Paddington Gallery owner Roslyn Oxley at Lucio's in Paddington. Picture: John Appleyard

Roslyn Oxley has no second thoughts about Bill Henson

Oxley didn’t have a second thought about revisiting an artist who had previously stirred up such a controversy? “Not at all.”

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Inside charity’s big night: Gold Dinner smashes milestone

Sydney philanthropic night of the year went off with a bang, raising more than $3 million for a good cause.

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Is this Australia’s most generous couple?

Most millionaires scramble to make as much money as possible. But Manly couple Greg Poche and Kay Van Norton Poche can’t give it away quick enough since selling their logistics business Star Track Express for $750 million in 2003.

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Feature for Saturday papers on the renewed popularity of Dungeons and Dragons. Due to coverage on popular shows such as Stranger Things, Big Bang Theory etc - and the fact many of the geeks who grew up playing the game are now company managers - it is staging an amazing comeback. Players (L-R) Morgan Bidlake (with Thomathan the bird), Sean Deane, Mitch Wilkins, Tim Sifontes-Holzberger, Tyson Hargreaves, Jade Murray at Netherworld, an arcade/pub in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. Brisbane 30th May 2019 AAP Image/Richard Gosling

Why Dungeons & Dragons is even cooler now

They’re not afraid anymore. Once banished to the basements of the world, Dungeons and Dragons fans in Australia have burst forth on the back of a surprising surge in popularity.

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