Sarah Elks

Sarah ElksSenior Reporter

Sarah Elks is a senior reporter for The Australian in its Brisbane bureau, focusing on investigations into politics, business and industry. Sarah has worked for the paper for 15 years, primarily in Brisbane, but also in Sydney, and in Cairns as north Queensland correspondent. She has covered election campaigns, high-profile murder trials, and natural disasters, and was named Queensland Journalist of the Year in 2016 for a series of exclusive stories exposing the failure of Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel business. Sarah has been nominated for four Walkley awards. Got a tip? elkss@theaustralian.com.au; GPO Box 2145 Brisbane QLD 4001

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State Politics

Pitt ignores advice on super

Queensland’s Treasurer will ignore a warning from the state’s actuary to stash cash to top up a superannuation fund.

Sarah Elks

State Politics

Treasurer Curtis Pitt, Queensland Budget lock up, Parliament House, Brisbane. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

Labor props up budget with raids

Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has ordered sweeping raids to prop up the cash-strapped state’s ailing budget.

Sarah Elks

State Politics

14/6/2016: Sam Williams, 24 and supported by his partner Jessica Piotrowski 21, is looking to buy his first home, at his mothers home which he rents in Coorparoo, Brisbane. Sam is hoping the Queensland government's new boost to the first home owner's grant (from $15k to $20k for a new home under $750k) will get him over the line. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Every bit helps to buy property

For Sam Williams, the Queensland government’s $5000 boost to the first-homeowners’ grant is extra motivation to leap.

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Tablet

Labor props up budget with super fund raids

Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has ordered sweeping raids to prop up the cash-strapped state’s ailing budget.

Sarah Elks

State Politics

### EMBARGO UNTIL 2:30PM###, Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk & Treasurer Curtis Pitt, Queensland Budget lock up, Parliament House, Brisbane. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

$4bn infrastructure super raid

Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has left the door open to more raids of extra cash in a public servants’ superannuation fund.

Sarah Elks

ExclusiveState Politics

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe make an announcement at New Farm Park, about public transport fares. Pic Mark Cranitch.

Palaszczuk’s $116m rent blowout

The Qld government faces huge extra costs to move ministers and bureaucracy into a new riverfront tower.

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Union pay push may derail super raid

The super surplus the Palaszczuk government is relying on to build infrastructure will be cut if unions win wage hikes.

Sarah Elks and Geoff Chambers

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Super surplus risks being cut

The super surplus the Palaszczuk government is relying on to build infrastructure will be cut if unions win wage hikes.

Sarah Elks and Geoff Chambers

The Nation

The Southport High School Business Breakfast - Former Southport High student Clive Palmer was in attendance Photo: David Clark

Palmer nephew: I’m not to blame

Clive Palmer’s nephew has been accused of pulling a Christopher Skase. He left the country ahead of a liquidator’s examination.

Sarah Elks

Defence

Labor's Dr Mike Kelly, defeated in the seat of Eden Monaro, contemplates a possible move to the Senate when former foreign minister Bob Carr calls it a day.

Mike Kelly rejects army order

Labor’s candidate in Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly, has quit the army rather than comply with a Defence Department order.

ANDREW BURRELL and Sarah Elks

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