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The antidote to resolutions, ins and outs are a manifestation of what you want to see more of in the new year, and what you want to leave behind.

After a solid 2024, here’s what’s in store for Brisbane in 2025

And what – or who – could be on the way out this year ...

  • Courtney Kruk

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Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?

Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?

Where you live in Brisbane could determine whether you are diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
The retreat’s lap pool is shaded and private.

This luxe Queensland retreat is a haven for foodies

A soothing stay at this south-east Queensland rural retreat also attracts food-loving day-trippers keen to linger over a long lunch at Homage restaurant.

  • Katrina Lobley
How bureaucrats worked to keep ‘forever chemical’ finds secret.

The test results Seqwater tried to keep secret, and how they came out

Brisbane residents were asking the government-owned water authority for information on “forever chemicals” in order to protect themselves. Seqwater kept quiet.

  • William Davis
Whooping cough case numbers have been consistently over 150 a week for the past month.

Queensland in grip of whooping cough outbreak as cases skyrocket

As post-COVID apathy sets in, hospitals have reported up to 28 times the average number of whooping cough cases in some parts of Brisbane.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt, state MP for Maiwar, Michael Berkman, and federal MP for Griffith, Max Chandler-Mather, at a press conference in New Farm.

‘Be self-critical’: Greens urged to take hard look at disappointing election result

Despite being swept from power in Queensland, Labor has seized upon the state election results to claim the party can reclaim inner-city seats from the Greens.

  • Matthew Knott and Paul Sakkal
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Raven died in an apartment fire at Thorneside while her parents Matthew and Chloe Louise Rodgers-Falk were in NSW.

Fire crew expects to find babysitter’s body in home where girl died

An eight-year-old who loved shopping and socialising and whose family nicknamed her “Turtle” has died in an inferno east of Brisbane.

  • William Davis and Cameron Atfield
LNP leader Deb Frecklington walks along The Strand in Townsville with her local candidates

The state seats where votes may be worth more – or less

Major party campaigns are gearing up for key stops across Queensland’s 93 electorates before October 26. But some seats aren’t like the others.

  • Matt Dennien
Russell Field with wife Ann.

‘I had to put my hand up’: Victims of crime advocate to run for LNP in Qld election

Russell Field, whose son was killed by a teenager in a stolen car, will take on a Labor MP who labelled youth crime a “media beat-up”.

  • Louise Harris
Educators have called for more transparency on NAPLAN tests.

Queensland tops nation for pulling kids out of NAPLAN tests

Two in five of the state’s school students are failing to meet national literacy and maths standards, but new data reveals their classmates are increasingly being withdrawn from the tests altogether.

  • Felicity Caldwell

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