Cheap fares ‘fuel inflation, risk infrastructure’
The permanent adoption of 50c public transport fares risks a run-down of services without an income stream to cover maintenance costs, a leading economist has warned.
Mackenzie Scott
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Moving and shaking in the Tower of Power
Is David Crisafulli readying to break his first election promise if, as expected, he wins the October 26 election?
Pre-polls inundated as half the state makes an early call
More than half of Queenslanders are expected to cast their vote ahead of the state election next weekend.
Bio-banks and cancer tissue mining: the Aussie inventors changing health
As a keen runner, Lydia O’Donnell followed the advice of coaches over dieticians and it had serious, long-term ramifications. She did her own research and now joins a new generation turning med tech breakthroughs into business.
Coal sector backs LNP through third parties
The coalmining industry has ploughed almost $1.5m into right-leaning third-party groups involved in the Queensland election campaign over the past two months.
LNP won’t limit bureaucracy’s wages explosion: Crisafulli
David Crisafulli has no plans to control public sector salary growth, despite the bureaucracy’s wage bill ballooning by more than 75 per cent in a decade under Queensland’s Labor government.
Pre-poll booths open for early bird voters
Early votes can now be cast at more than 200 early voting centres across ahead of October 26, to cater for people who like to vote ahead of polling day.
Free lunch with side of federal funding
The Miles government has defended its $1.4bn free lunch policy while demanding Canberra comes up with more state school funding.
Crisafulli’s vow: we’ll be dammed in future
Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli has vowed to axe Labor’s multibillion-dollar desalination plant, declaring the LNP would build a new dam for the state’s southeast in the next decade but couldn’t say where, or how much it would cost
Pollies fired up over cops’ ‘chilling’ journo alert
Political leaders have sworn to amend a Queensland Police Service document that listed journalists alongside criminals and religious extremists in a training manual about declared associates.
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