Firefighters are preparing for severe weather from NSW to travel north, increasing the threat to south-east Queensland. A total of 82 fires are burning across the state as a state of emergency remains in place. Temperatures are set to reach 36 degrees in the south-east today with a dramatic wind change hampering conditions on the […]

Steve Price has slammed the Greens party after a senator labelled the government as “a bunch of arsonists”. Yesterday, enraged WA Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John accused the government of being responsible for the devastating bushfires and ignoring calls on climate change policy. Greens MP Adam Bandt has blamed the unprecedented bushfires and “catastrophic” fire risk […]

The Queensland opposition has slammed BHP after it announced driverless trucks will be rolled out at a mine in the Bowen Basin. Up to 86 driverless trucks will be introduced at the Goonyella Riverside mine. But Queensland LNP says BHP’s mining license should now be reviewed. Opposition leader Deb Frecklington tells Ross Greenwood the local […]

Wages growth is at its lowest level in more than a year, according to new data. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the wage price index rose by just 0.5 per cent in the September quarter. The annual growth now sits at 2.2 per cent, down from the growth at the end of June. CBA […]

Cardinal George Pell has been given a final chance to appeal his convictions for historic child sex abuse. Once Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic, he was last year sentenced to six years jail for abusing two boys in the late 1990s. Today, the High Court deferred its decision on whether to allow George Pell to appeal his […]

More than 50 blazes are burning across Queensland with crews preparing for conditions to worsen. A state of emergency has been declared with at least nine homes destroyed and 57 bushfires active across the state, including four at a Watch and Act alert level. The blaze at Cobraball, west of Yeppoon in central Queensland, remains […]