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October 24, 2026 • 05:10 AM
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Jessica Black is a journalist in the ABC's Brisbane newsroom. She has worked as a BBC broadcast journalist in Belfast and as an ABC reporter in regional Victoria.

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Jessica Black is a journalist in the ABC's Brisbane newsroom. She has worked as a BBC broadcast journalist in Belfast and as an ABC reporter in regional Victoria.

The host lodged multiple claims against the guest, including one for $1,755 to repair a blocked toilet and clean "extraordinary soilage".

The bayside mayor says she faced "concerted, ongoing resistance and attacks" in the role, which she has had since 2024.

Police say there were "elements of pre-planning" to the attack on Saturday, but there was "no indication" the victims were targeted.

Victor George Dennison, who was 64 at the time, lost an eye and was left with a traumatic brain injury after a bicycle crash on a Brisbane footpath in 2009.

Emergency services were called to a Fernvale street after reports a man had been struck by a car.

The national median profit has dropped to $371,000, as a softening housing market hits home prices.

Queensland's former police commissioner, Steve Gollschewski, is being farewelled at the Brisbane City Hall today.

Topic: Funerals and Memorial Services

The construction union says it will "cooperate fully" with an investigation, after detectives raided its Queensland HQ as well as properties in Victoria.

The lot is "the last major development site available" near the CBD, "close to all the things people need and want", MP Tim Nicholls says.

Topic: Housing Construction Industry

According to a report released by the Insurance Council of Australia, the cost to build a home in Australia has risen almost 30 per cent in five years.

Topic: Housing Construction Industry

Two people accused of killing 66-year-old Beenleigh man were allegedly locked in an eviction dispute.

Police charge a man and a woman with murdering 46-year-old Chad Steven Bishop in Beenleigh and interfering with a corpse.

Police said the accused rang emergency services to report a woman was unresponsive after an assault.

Eight teenagers have now been charged with murdering a 21-year-old man who died after an alleged assault last month.

The Queensland Police Union says the "discrepancy" between how child and adult offenders' DNA is collected should be "completely removed".

The government says changes to Christmas and Easter trading are off the table, as Queensland prepares to reinvigorate its nightlife ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Leanne Gay Laver and family friend Phillip Gordon died when the house caught alight in the Logan suburb of Kingston.

A 16-year-old accused of stabbing a fellow student at a Brisbane school had been sent racist messages in the months before, a court has heard.

Bargaining at the Fair Work Commission has been underway since May, with 273 fewer services in the south-east because of industrial action — about a 20 per cent cut.

Treasurer David Janetzki says Origin "appears not to be doing the right thing" by increasing prices in regions where price drops were predicted.

Pauline Hanson says, like Ben Roberts-Smith, she knows what it is like to face a criminal trial.

Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.

The Queensland government says it's considering amendments to IVF legislation after some patients were told they would be unable to proceed with treatment under new laws.

A new assessment found sections of the path were worse than identified in previous reports, with evidence that water was leaking through the concrete.

The ABC understands the ambassadorship was a "small value one" that came in at under $10,000. Only half had been paid.

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