Daily court listing for Queensland, covering Supreme, District, Magistrate, Civil and Federal courts on Friday, January 22, 2021.
British actor Olivia Cooke reveals how she landed her dream role alongside Alec Baldwin and why Game Of Thrones reduced her to tears.
James Wigney
Their rivalry was laid bare in 2020, but there’s been a ‘meating’ of minds between Annastacia Palaszczuk and Gladys Berejiklian in a cheeky new ad campaign.
GREG STOLZ
A jobs surge in Tasmania has handed Queensland the nation’s highest unemployment rate despite the Sunshine State gaining thousands of new jobs.
Hayden Johnson
Hundreds of new jobs, a revitalised Adelaide Street precinct and scenic river bikeways are at the forefront of Brisbane Metro’s new look. TAKE THE VIDEO TOUR
Tobias Jurss-Lewis
A big change is coming to a 50-year-old bridge in the centre of Brisbane. The city’s cabbies are bracing for a massive backlash.
Darren Cartwright
Labor MP Les Walker has been fined and banned from his own city’s nightclub precinct after he was knocked out at a nightclub last weekend.
Kate Kyriacou & Jessica Marszalek
A search for man and his dog who have been missing for more than two weeks has been called off but police say they and local landowners will ‘keep an eye out’.
Ellen Ransley
A man has died after a 4WD towing a caravan crashed into a tree on the Bruce Highway northbound this morning.
DANIELLE O'NEAL
A man who caused almost $190,000 in damage when he used a stolen car to smash through the front of Brisbane’s Louis Vuitton store claims he’s had a tough time in jail.
Vanessa Marsh
Scott Morrison says Annastacia Palaszczuk’s plan to use mining accommodation for quarantine is simply ‘dumping’ a Brisbane problem on the regions. HAVE YOUR SAY
Matt Killoran
The doctor who examined Jayden Moorea (formerly Dan Shearin) in the hours after the death of Breeana Robinson says she found no physical signs of a struggle.
Jeremy Pierce
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed that strict COVID restrictions for the Greater Brisbane area will ease on Friday morning.
Jack McKay, Janelle Miles, Hayden Johnson
Retirees are being urged to check their finances as another challenging year gets under way.
Anthony Keane
Taxpayers should be underwriting loans to more training courses to help solve the country’s pandemic jobs crisis, an education sector review has recommended.
Jessica Marszalek
While many babies are given cereal-based foods as their first solids, researchers says parents would be better off providing this food group first.
Jackie Sinnerton
A peak Australian health body has issued a dire warning about the slippery slope some may be led down if they decide to lose weight.
Jackie Sinnerton, Health reporter
Pregnant women are living in fear that if they have the COVID-19 vaccine it could harm their unborn children but if they refuse the jab they are left vulnerable to the virus.
Rebel investors are making waves with claims that Gold Coast surfing entrepreneur Nev Hyman’s latest venture is a wipe-out.
A world-first study is underway into a potentially lifesaving therapy for children having stem cell transplants.
Janelle Miles
They went from “soulmates to cell mates”. Lockdown love did not go the distance for an Australian man who moved to the UK.
Stephen Drill , Europe correspondent
One of Brisbane’s major inner-city corridors has been slated for A Speed limit reduction in a bid to protect cyclists and pedestrians.
A popular beachside destination was left in disarray by campers who abandoned their belongings fleeing from Saturday’s wild storms. SEE THE PICS.
Sophie Chirgwin
Killer Brock Wall, who bludgeoned his pregnant girlfriend to death, told police he would ‘go to jail’ over his upcoming actions but they ignored the threats. Soon after, she was dead.
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