An independent Gold Coast mayoral candidate was extensively supported from the sidelines by the powerful CFMEU, a corruption inquiry has heard.
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Brisbane City Council budget 2017-2018: Quirk's 'lifestyle' budget has roads, transport at heart
Brisbane City Council’s $3 billion budget for 2017-18 is dominated by road projects, a new transport system for the city and the beginnings of an upgrade to the Mt Coot-tha precinct.
Logan mayor Luke Smith didn't keep records of cash donations: CCC inquiry
First-term Logan Mayor Luke Smith has defended his $377,000 election war chest as “not that much” after revelations he accepted cash donations without a receipt.
Truck fire closes Gateway Motorway
The Gateway Motorway is closed in both directions after a truck caught fire in Brisbane’s north.
Fire tears through restaurant in Toowoomba CBD
A massive fire has torn through an eatery west of Brisbane, causing dozens of nearby residents to flee and damaging neighbouring buildings.
The unseen epidemic sweeping Australia and taking mostly men
Six men take their lives each day, so why don’t we care?
Rates to rise 2.4 per cent in Brisbane City Council budget
Brisbane Metro will receive $50 million in funding in 2017-2018, but ratepayers will not be hit with an exorbitant rate rise to fund the project, with an average rates increase of just 2.4 per cent.
Queensland budget 2017-18: Winners and losers
Take a look at who came out on top in the 2017-18 Queensland state budget.
Budget 2017-18: Unemployment rate not tipped to plummet in next few years
Despite the Queensland budget being described as a “jobs bonanza”, with predictions of 40,000 new jobs in the next year, Treasury is not predicting a substantial decrease in the unemployment rate.
Queensland author calling for posthumous pardon of Kipper Billy
A former journalist is calling for the state government to clear the name of a headless Aboriginal man who was falsely accused of attacking an Ipswich woman in 1861 and whose exact cause of death remains a mystery.