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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Mining & Energy

Brisbane Supreme Court Application Court Clive Mensink gave evidence in injunction hearing re QNI adminstrators Photographer Philip Norrish NO BY LINE

Palmer nephew quits country

Clive Palmer’s nephew will escape being grilled under oath next week about the collapse of a Townsville nickel refinery.

Sarah Elks

National Affairs

Labor candidate Pat O'Neill and his signage in Bowen Hills.

Army shoots down Labor ads

A Labor candidate has been forced to tear down billboards showing him in his Army uniform, after a Defence request.

Sarah Elks

State Politics

Queensland Media Club luncheon with Hon. Curtis Pitt who will give a pre-Budget analysis, entitled ÔInnovation, Investment and Infrastructure at the Convention centre. Pic Annette Dew

Pitt red-faced on tax hike blue

Curtis Pitt has been left red-faced after publicly miscalculating the size of his tax hike to foreign property buyers.

Sarah Elks

Industrial Relations

Australian middle distance running legend and former City of Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke AO, MBE being remembered at a special ceremony on the Ôrunning trackÕ entrance of the Ashmore headquarters of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC). GOLDOC Chairman Peter Beattie AC. Photo: Jerad Williams

CFMEU stops work for poll fight

The CFMEU used daily stop-work meetings at a Commonwealth Games venue to campaign against the Turnbull government.

Sarah Elks

The Nation

Photo from the Facebook page of Cindy Waldron who is feared dead after being taken by a crocodile at Thornton Beach in the Daintree.

Lack of cash stalled croc review

Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles has defended a year-long delay in launching a crocodile mapping exercise.

Sarah Elks and Amos Aikman

exclusiveState Politics

Treasurer Curtis Pitt will inspect the site of a new accommodation complex to be constructed at the University of Queensland housing 1,300 students. Pics Tim Marsden

Pitt keen to raid QSuper surplus

Weeks before handing down his second budget, Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt has described privatisation as ‘lazy’.

Sarah Elks

The Nation

Blame game over late train

The fate of the Coalition’s most marginal seat, Petrie, could be determined by the bungling of a rail link.

Sarah Elks

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

Commissioner slams school closure

The commissioner running welfare reform in Aurukun has slammed the school’s closure, fearing it will set back his truancy work a year.

Sarah Elks

The Nation

Jobs key to success: Aurukun dad

For Aurukun father of six Gerald Tamwoy, jobs are the key to stemming the rivers of grog smuggled into his community.

Sarah Elks

Indigenous

Noel Pearson, founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.

Pearson backs Aurukun model

Noel Pearson stared down critics of his welfare reform program as the state government reviews the Aurukun row.

Sarah Elks and Jamie Walker

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