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PRICE OF GETTING OLD
Elderly Australians are being forced to choose between paying a carer to help them shower or buying food as the price of services under the federal government’s aged care reforms skyrockets. A Sunday Mail investigation has found many older Australians...
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HOME OIL ADVANTAGE
A lake of oil, the size of Singapore, that sits three kilometres beneath the surface of Queensland could produce hundreds of millions of barrels of liquid gold as the state government moves to fast-track the project amid the global fuel crisis.
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YOUNG AT HEART
MATCH-DAY SPECIAL EDITION SPORT CONFIDENTIAL | TEAM LISTS | EXPERT ANALYSIS
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CITY’S NEW CAULDRON
The architects of the new Brisbane Stadium have promised a Suncorp Stadium-like atmosphere inside the new 63,000-seat venue thanks to it being sunk into the hills of innercity Victoria Park. Their promise, in an exclusive interview to mark a year...
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WHY BEN BUCKED BRONCOS
Michael Maguire has been left “pained” by the bombshell resignation of Ben Te’o as Broncos bosses backed their head coach in the wake of an explosive fallout with his assistant. Broncos chief executive Dave Donaghy confirmed an exclusive report by The...
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GAMES PLAN’S ROCKY TRUTH
Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River needs to be widened and dredged to fit Olympic rowing in 2032, a secret report reveals. The Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority’s feasibility study into the government’s controversial plan to host...
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GOLDEN TICKET
Brisbane’s new stadium would house a National Olympic and Paralympic Sports Museum under a legacy plan backed by some of Australia’s greatest sporting heroes. Despite Australia’s success in and love of the Games, there is no single attraction where the...
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HONEYMOON KILLER’S NEW LIFE
The notorious “honeymoon killer” Gabe Watson is living a quiet life in Alabama with his schoolteacher wife and their children 23 years after his bride of 11 days died in mysterious circumstances while scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. The Sunday...
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WFH, TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS & EVEN LOWER SPEED LIMITS AS FUEL CRISIS SPREADS PETROL PANDEMIC
Australians have been warned to slow down on highways, work from home, limit air travel and ditch gas cooktops as the war in the Middle East limits oil supply. The grim warning from the world’s energy watchdog comes as major businesses including Uber,...
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CHEERS NARELLE
One of the most powerful storms to ever hit Queensland will slam into the far north coast this morning at high tide, bringing deadly winds, storm surges and flash flooding. Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle will cross the coast directly east of Coen, on...
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3 YEARS OF PAIN AHEAD
Fuel prices could remain at wartime highs for three years, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers warning there was a “very real” prospect inflation could reach 5 per cent this year. Mr Chalmers also warned if the Middle East war drags on, oil would hit $US120 a...
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THE HITS KEEP ON COMING
Queensland families face a massive hit to their hip pockets after the Reserve Bank yesterday bucked world trends and delivered a 0.25 per cent rate rise. The RBA’s decision – which Treasurer Jim Chalmers blamed on the war in the Middle East – lifts...
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Mum gets the RED CARPET TREATMENT
Irish actress Jessie Buckley has beaten out Aussie darling Rose Byrne for best actress in a dramatic Oscars ceremony where Timothee Chalamet was roasted for his controversial views on ballet and slain Hollywood legend Rob Reiner was honoured in a...
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HAPPY TO BE HOME
Danish royals King Frederik and Aussie-born Queen Mary swapped ancient culture for business, politics and glamour on Sunday as they travelled from Uluru to Canberra on day two of their Australian tour. Governor-General Sam Mostyn hosted a ceremonial...
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WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DIE IN PEACE
Queenslanders with terminal illnesses living in regional or remote areas are dying in distress, unable to access Voluntary Assisted Dying, because of a legal technicality. Families, like Helena Hammer (left) whose husband Patrick (inset) died last...
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YOU ‘FAILED’ HER
Queensland’s Child Safety Department allowed an underage teenager in state care to live with a man in his 40s despite several whistleblowers warning that the intellectually disabled child was at risk and being treated as “a sexual object”. Hayley...
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THE HANGOVER PART 2
Warriors and Brisbane bosses will ramp-up negotiations on a player transfer deal in the wake of Mitch Barnett’s move to the Broncos. Warriors boss Cameron George said the New Zealand club will expect some form of compensation in the form of a Broncos...
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BOOFHEADS, BARBIES & BABIES
Australians should embrace their unique larrikin humour and champion regional industries to revive the nation, new Nationals leader Matt Canavan says. “We need more Australian babies, more Australian jokes, more Australian barbecues,” he said.
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BRAVE NEW AUSSIES
Australia has helped five Iranian athletes flee the totalitarian Islamic regime in a top-secret Gold Coast evacuation operation. This included a daring dash to a secret location to sign their visas and a late-night call between Anthony Albanese and the...
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LET US STAY HERE ALBO
Multiple Iranian female soccer players have sought protection in Australia after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was urged to grant members of the team asylum. Five players are now under the protection of Australian Federal Police after chaotic scenes...
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2000KM OF WARNINGS
Queensland is on high alert for flooding as a tropical low that smashed the Far North charges south. Forecasters warned heavy rain could fall anywhere between Julia Creek, in the northwest, through to Brisbane, with flood warnings for more than 20...
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FREE GET YOUR REECE WALSH GLOSSY POSTER
Collect all your favourite Broncos heroes this week
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TECH GIANTS FAIL AGAIN
Teenagers across the country are still using social media despite the ban of under-16s, sparking calls for platforms to revoke access or face accusations they have “blood on their hands”. A national investigation that polled 273 Australian children...
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LET’S BULLDOZE THE PANTHERS
Ben ‘Dozer’ Hunt and Reece Walsh can’t wait to run out at Suncorp Stadium tonight as the Broncos begin their premiership defence
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BLITZ ON E-BIKES
Parents would be held responsible for their child hooning on an e-bike and pedestrians better protected under a proposed suite of tough new reforms to make Queensland’s streets safer. The long-awaited inquiry into personal mobility devices has also...
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THERE ARE NO LIMITS
Electric Broncos fullback Reece Walsh has declared his team can win back-to-back NRL premierships this season and “have only scratched the surface” of their playmaking potential. Brisbane is banking on the brilliance of its $5m man to lead its title...
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TYRANT GONE IN A FLASH
Iran’s ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed, along with much of the country’s leadership, in US and Israeli air strikes, as President Donald Trump urged the Iranian people to rise up in revolt. In response, Iran has attacked US bases, as well...
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AMERICA STRIKES IRAN
The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran as Donald Trump vowed to eliminate the rogue state’s nuclear and missile programs, devastate its military and fuel a regime change. Explosions were reported across the Middle East –...
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WHERE ARE MY KIDS ’ KILLERS
When Michael Pye’s daughter, Kristin, was killed during a robbery in 2008, he never thought lightning would strike twice – but then his son, Kieren, was stabbed to death seven years later. Both his children’s killers were migrants and should have been...
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THE COWBOYS TAKE LAS VEGAS
Those close to him say there’s another Todd behind the public Payten, but we never see it. League writer Travis Meyn boarded the Cowboys’ team bus in Las Vegas for a day of behind-the-scenes coverage and to better understand the North Queensland...
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SLASH OR CRASH
Queenslanders have been warned to brace for at least one interest rate hike and potentially more after higher than expected inflation figures. It has prompted economists to warn Treasurer Jim Chalmers to reduce government spending.
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MY CRIME FIGHT IS PERSONAL
New Police Commissioner Brett Pointing will crack down on break-ins, car theft, robberies, revealing he was a victim of a late-night home invasion that left his family traumatised. In his first interview since taking on the top job, Mr Pointing...
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COWBOYS DIVE INTO VEGAS
Jason Taumalolo and teammates have settled into Sin City as Peter V’landys declares the game is set to smash the $1bn barrier
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The race where EVERYONE IS A WINNER except the runners
Melbourne might have the race that stops the nation, but Brisbane’s Mud Crab Cup at least stops the city. Hundreds attended the 23rd edition of the Gambaro Group’s iconic fundraiser on Sunday, featuring eight races at Persone Italian Restaurant in...
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TARGET OF HATE
Brisbane’s largest synagogue has been rammed in what police described as a “targeted” religious attack amid a disturbing rise in antiSemitism in Australia. Security footage shows a member of the Hebrew congregation jumping out of the path of a ute,...
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DISGRACED EX-PRINCE FACES LIFE IN JAIL
The picture says so much. The most reviled man in the western world, formerly known as Prince Andrew, slumped in the back of a Range Rover. Those puffy jowls. That mean mouth. Those eyes, one blown red in an accident of technology. And the steepled...
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ANDREW ARRESTED
Former prince Andrew has become the first British royal in modern times to be arrested. At least six police cars swooped overnight on the address he has been living at, and took the man now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into custody. His arrest...
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END THESE DARK AGES
Queensland’s night life economy commissioner has dramatically branded the state’s after-dark economy the worst in the nation – and listed what he says needs to change. John “JC” Collins had until yesterday not spoken publicly about his year-long...
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A POLITICIAN WHO KEEPS A PROMISE
A Brisbane primary school student has gifted the ultimate surprise as his first duty as school captain: A free chocolate milk for the entire school cohort. Safe to say Mitchell Gray, 10, earned the respect of all 372 Geebung State School students on...
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IT’S A DOG’S BREAKFAST
A can of dog food is at the centre of a court battle between Australia’s competition cop and supermarket giant Coles. The dog food was sold at Coles for $4 for 296 days, before it jumped 50 per cent in February 2023, the Federal Court heard yesterday....
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CALL ME INDIANA JONES
A homeless man will face court today after allegedly breaking into a Caboolture museum and stealing priceless Egyptian artefacts. The man, 52, was arrested on Russell Island on Saturday night after police allegedly found a 2600year-old wooden cat...
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TRUFFLE IN PARADISE
Court docs claim bikies ordered hostage truffle gnocchi while demanding payback of $2.4m debt
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PANIC AT THE BISTRO
A kitchenhand armed with a carving knife chased a young waitress through a crowded leagues club, trying to kill her, hours after he was stood down over inappropriate behaviour towards her, police allege.
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WELL DONE ANGUS
Angus Taylor is almost certain to be elected Australia’s alternative prime minister today – after current Liberal leader Sussan Ley watched 11 of her frontbenchers walk yesterday. Mr Taylor – who in 2019 infamously posted on his own social media feed...
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I WANT YOU TO CALL ME HAKEEM
Payne Haas has added a Muslim name to his identity as the Broncos superstar prepares for a new chapter – and life – at South Sydney. Following in the footsteps of boxing icon Muhammad Ali and Haas’s mentor Sonny Bill Williams, the champion prop has...
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DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
The former Labor state government was “doing the bidding” of the militant CFMEU at the expense of Queensland’s construction industry, an inquiry has heard. The Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU yesterday heard from Civil Contractors Federation...
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PAYNE: I JUST NEED A CHANGE
“I need a change.” With those four words, Broncos superstar Payne Haas dropped one of the biggest bombshells in Brisbane’s 38year NRL history. Haas is headed to South Sydney on a three-year contract from 2027 after a stunning poaching raid by...
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HOLY WAR ON WORDS
Queensland will become the first state to outlaw the inflammatory phrase “from the river to the sea” under sweeping reforms to crack down on anti-Semitism after the Bondi attack. And anyone who says “globalise the intifada” or displays Nazi, Hamas and...
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I NEEDED A HOLIDAY
The Crisafulli government minister responsible for leading the recovery after natural disasters says she has no regrets about being on an African safari when a cyclone hit Queensland last month – because she needed a break.
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FORTNITE ‘GROOMING’ NIGHTMARE
Hundreds of children were allegedly groomed by a Queensland man over seven years while playing popular online games like Fortnite and using social media apps like Snapchat – in one of Australia’s worst alleged cases of online child sex abuse. Police...
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Parents’ sad farewell on a lonely K’gari beach
Angela and Todd James embrace in the surf after a smoking ceremony to honour their daughter Piper.
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IT IS YOUR FAULT JIM
Leading economists have reiterated warnings that government spending was helping drive stubborn inflation, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers dismissing the commentary as politically motivated. Before the Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday raised rates...
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INTRODUCING OUR NEW THEATRE OF DREAMS
Queensland’s newest major cultural venue has been formally handed over to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre at an official ceremony on Monday, marking a major milestone for the long-awaited Glasshouse Theatre as it prepares to open to the public...
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I HAD CLIVE DO THE ADS
US President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon claimed he helped orchestrate Clive Palmer’s advertising blitz during the 2019 federal election, according to messages released as part of the Epstein files. “I had Clive Palmer do the $60m...
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TAKEN FOR A RIDE
Hundreds of illegal e-bikes and e-scooters that are now terrorising Queensland streets were bought using taxpayer cash handed out by the former Labor government. New figures reveal that under the $2m scheme, more than 800 illegal bikes and scooters...
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UNDER A ROCK
International fugitive former Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom has been found by The Courier-Mail living a secret life, working as a tradie in the Noosa hinterland. Elsom had not been seen since he vanished in 2024 after he was convicted in a French court...
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INFLATION HANDOUT
Queensland public servants are in line to receive an extra $500 pay rise under a rarely used clause triggered by rising inflation. An inflation trigger buried in the wage agreements between the government and many of the state’s 270,000 public...
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BRACE FOR RATE PAIN
The average Queensland homeowner has been told to brace for a hip-pocket hit of more than $1000 a year, after stubborn inflation figures pushed all big four banks to tip an interest rate hike. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has denied that government...
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De Minaur goes down swinging
Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up. It’s one of the great Rocky Balboa quotes and there must be a part of Alex de Minaur that feels like he is living his own endless movie sequel, but unlike the boxing masterpiece this Aussie...
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SO HOW IS THIS LEGAL
The push to criminalise desecrating the Australian flag is set to intensify after one was burned at a Brisbane “Invasion Day” rally. An Indigenous man known as Moojidji addressed the crowd at Queens Gardens before he set the flag on fire and dropped...
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HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY
The first Australian to qualify as an astronaut under a homegrown space program has been named the 2026 Australian of the Year, alongside a group of visionaries, by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Sunday night. South Australia’s...
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