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Brisbane has recorded its coldest overnight temperature in the early hours of Thursday, with the city set to brush the single digits again across Thursday and Friday.

Welcome winter? Cold snap heralds beginning of SEQ dry season

Overnight temperatures brushed the single digits this week and while it will be a dry winter, forecasts predict rain will return sooner than normal.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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The wet weather forecast to continue until Sunday afternoon.

South-east Queensland cops a drenched weekend, as wild surf batters NSW

Rain is expected to fall across the south-east from the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast and inland to Darling Downs.

  • Mikala Theocharous
Tangalooma Beach, on Moreton Island, is slated for shark surveillance drones alongside about a dozen popular beaches earmarked by the Queensland government for drones, nets, and drumlines.

Qld to add lethal shark nets, drumlines to popular tourist beaches

The state’s shark management program is set to get an $88.2m boost to ensure the safety of swimmers, but the decision has attracted criticism from animal advocates.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Renee Coffey with supporters on winning the seat of Griffith in Brisbane for Labor on May 3, 2025.

Who is Renee Coffey, the Labor candidate who ousted the Greens’ Chandler-Mather after one term?

The newly minted MP for Griffith says the electorate was not impressed by her predecessor’s “grandstanding”.

  • Nick Dent and Marissa Calligeros
A portrait of a couple drinking wine at sunset on a picnic at Mount Gravatt Lookout in Brisbane.

Brisbane just outranked Paris on this list. Have the rules been rigged in our favour?

In the past two years, our humble city has scored a place on several global destination lists. But has our latest inclusion exposed an undercurrent of hyperbole?

  • Courtney Kruk
Campaigners outside City Hall in the electorate of Brisbane.

Brisbane early voting: Where to vote early this federal election, and how it could change the result

Almost half of all Australian voters are expected to vote early, and possibly even more in Queensland, where election day falls on a long weekend.

  • Marissa Calligeros
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Flooding at Tenham Station, a beef and sheep enterprise amid the channel country in south-west Queensland.

The slow-moving inland sea triggered by a year’s worth of rain in just a few days

Record rains following in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Alfred have caused flooding in parts of Queensland and NSW.

  • Nick O'Malley and Courtney Kruk
Queensland needs more skilled migrants for tourism, Graeme Turner says.

Alfie arrived on Straddie. What happened next saved Brisbane from the worst

The four large islands are popular getaways for locals. In the wake of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred, they have another claim to fame: as a city’s protectors from extreme weather.

  • Nick Wright
Flooding on Bowman Parade in the suburb of Bardon.

Houses flood, but bureau says repeat of 2022 floods hopefully not on the cards

Houses are flooding in Brisbane tonight, but authorities are assuring flood-weary residents a repeat of 2022 is not on the cards.

  • Marissa Calligeros and William Davis
Lara Bowden, 10, playing in the mud in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, at Skennars Head in northern NSW

‘We need you’: NSW’s plea to rely on Defence in natural disasters

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred stalked the coast for days, but while the flooding risk for Lismore was downgraded, NSW is not out of the woods yet.

  • Matt Wade and Chris Barrett

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