1+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1376+ words) Catch up on the highlights of Trump's marathon State of the Union address " from his boasts of ending wars, securing the borders and a declaration that "we're winning so much" " insisting he'd sparked an economic boom at home and imposed…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (1005+ words) Updated February 25, 2026 " 3:24pm,first published 11:45am Melbourne's CBD would be expanded to allow a wave of new skyscrapers under a controversial Liberal housing plan that also pledges to unwind high-density plans imposed on middle-ring suburbs. The plan has been criticised for failing…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (738+ words) February 24, 2026 " 6:55pm A fight is brewing about the cost of supported camping in NSW national parks, while an updated government document reveals commercial motorbike tours and quad biking could be allowed in hundreds of parks across the state. Environment Minister Penny…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (505+ words) February 24, 2026 " 6:30pm This is so awkward. I'm writing a love letter, a note of hope and optimism, to a person I don't know, to a mechanism I'm not even sure I trust. But someone's got to do it. Yes, it's me....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (727+ words) February 24, 2026 " 2:40pm Eric Trump has released new images of a proposed Trump Tower on the Gold Coast, but many questions are yet to be answered about the project. Australian developer Altus, which signed an agreement with the Trump Organisation this month,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (666+ words) February 24, 2026 " 5:00am When plans were drawn up to transform the heart of Brisbane's bustling cultural precinct to accommodate a new Metro stop, the council told residents it would include a new pocket park. Four years on, instead of the lush gathering…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (520+ words) February 24, 2026 " 5:00am The whistleblower former chief of a major south-east Queensland council believes "irregularities" in the recent hiring of a $500,000 bayside local government's top job should be addressed in a full redo. Sharon Kelsey, who was sacked in 2018 after reporting the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (710+ words) February 24, 2026 " 4:01am Patients say they are being forced to pay hundreds of dollars for follow-up care after accepting a Queensland government program designed to ease pressure on public waitlists. Surgery Connect was launched by the Queensland government in 2008 to address the…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (135+ words) February 24, 2026 " 7:50am Two men and a family dog have died in an off-road vehicle crash in a tiny township inland of the Sunshine Coast. Four people and the dog were in the UTV, or utility terrain vehicle, when it went over…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (828+ words) February 23, 2026 " 5:00pm The charity trying to extract families from Syria has blasted a Coalition bid to make it illegal to help them back to Australia, as Labor MPs grumble about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's uncompromising stance in the debate over so-called…...