Mackenzie Scott

Mackenzie Scott is a property and general news reporter based in Brisbane. Prior to joining The Australian in 2018, she was the editorial coordinator at NewsMediaWorks, covering media and publishing, and editor at travel and lifestyle website Xplore Sydney.

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Queensland electionNation

Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli visits Stan William Park to announce the Manunda Sports Precinct Redevelopment, Cairns. Picture: Liam Kidston.

Crisafulli’s $50m anti-crime canoe camps

Children who wag school will have their phones confiscated and be sent on taxpayer-funded camps to canoe and learn coding under a LNP plan to drive down youth crime rates in Queensland.

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State electionNation

Sandstone Point, October 6 2024. Queensland Premier Steven Miles during a visit to Sandstone Point in Moreton Bay. Picture: Tertius Pickard

Third-party lobby restrictions ‘very hard’: Miles

Queensland Premier Steven Miles says it is too difficult to force in-house lobbyists into the state’s transparent lobbying regime despite warnings from the crime and corruption watchdog that it is a ‘corruption risk’.

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‘Time to move on’Nation

Former South Australian Liberal leader David Speirs has made an announcement that will quit parliament after confirming his house was raided by armed police. Picture: Facebook/Supplied.

‘Something sinister’: ex-Lib leader quits politics over drug scandal

South Australia’s former Liberal opposition leader David Speirs will quit parliament after armed police raided his home and charged him with drug supply offences.

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BRISBANE 2032Nation

Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli with the Division 5 Metro WomanÃs team during a visit to the Pine Rivers Football Club. Picture: Liam Kidston.

Gabba for the Olympics? Crisafulli is open to it

Queensland election frontrunner David Crisafulli has left the door open to reviving plans to overhaul the Gabba as Brisbane’s marquee Olympic stadium.

Lydia Lynch and Mackenzie Scott

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

15/9/2024: The Premier Steven Miles, along with Deputy Premier Cameron Dick , Grace Grace Member for McConnel Minister for State Development and Infrastructure and Transport Minister Bart Mellish , announce the extension of the 50c public transport fare system, in Newstead, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Labor to lose two Brisbane seats to Greens

Queensland Labor is at risk of losing two of its Brisbane seats to the Greens, leaked union-funding polling shows, and while Annastacia Palaszczuk’s TV debut has surprised some, others closer to the former premier say she fancies herself a talk-show host.

Michael McKenna, Sarah Elks, Lydia Lynch and Mackenzie Scott

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONNation

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 4, 2024: Peter Dutton speaks to the media at a Beyond DV announcement during the oppositionÃs election campaign. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Dutton to woo Crisafulli on nuclear

Peter Dutton will attempt to win over his Queensland counterpart on nuclear power should the LNP form government at the state election.

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Queensland electionPolitics

2/10/2024: Joshu Turier and Roz (who is too afraid to be fully identified) ,are two of the trio behind the Jewish Collective, which is plastering billboards around Brisbane saying the Greens have lost their vote, this one is in Chapel Hill, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

‘Don’t stand for us’: Marginalised groups’ Greens backlash

A grassroots Queensland Jewish group has joined with Hindu and Iranian groups to launch a campaign against the Greens, declaring the party ‘no longer stands for all minorities’.

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Buyers marketNation

The Daily Telegraph Saturday 28 September 2024Hot Auction - RydeAuctioneer Thomas McGlynn conducts an auction at 17 Pooley St Ryde. Picture Thomas Lisson

Good sign for buyers in ‘for sale’ upturn

Property prices stabilised through September as the spring selling season brought an influx of new homes onto the market, giving buyers greater choice.

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Electric VehiclesNation

24/09/2024: Eddie Kocwa, co owner of the BOSSCAP Group, with one of the Ford Lightning F-150 EV utes specially made for the Brisbane Airport Corporation, at Brisbane airport. The company modifies the US made ute into Australias only EV 4x4 ute, at their factory in Brendale, Brisbane pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Brisbane biochemist takes a left turn on EV production

Ten years after the demise of Australia’s car industry, Eddie Kocwa has an assembly line to convert the US’s most popular electric ute for use in Australia and the Pacific.

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FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

Shannon Fentiman door-knocking in her electorate of Waterford this month. Picture: Facebook

Shock secret poll: Labor star in trouble

Shannon Fentiman, the woman most likely to be Labor opposition leader if Steven Miles is trounced on October 26, is in strife in her own safe Labor seat.

Sarah Elks, Michael McKenna, Lydia Lynch and Mackenzie Scott

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