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How Pauline Hanson kicked satire out the back door

The One Nation leader successfully fought against satire aimed at her in the 1990s. Now she’s vowing to fight for her right to satirise others.

Cameron Atfield
Cameron Atfield

Journalist

If Labor and the LNP hope you forget (bits of) the past, what’s the future?

Queensland’s budget week has taught us at least one thing: the major parties want October’s election to be a contest of ideas. Here’s what’s on offer so far.

Matt Dennien
Matt Dennien

Reporter

How a towel and good lighting will help bring Brisbane workers back to the CBD

Forget the free car park – a good shower and hair straighteners are the perks needed to lure workers back to the office.

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Crime & Courts

Deputy Premier Cameron Dick at the scene of the house fire in his electorate.

The murder tragedy that struck fatal house fire victims decades earlier

The mother and son killed in a house fire south of Brisbane had endured tragedy decades before their deaths.

  • by Marissa Calligeros
Two men were rescued from a capsized yacht off the coast of Bundaberg on Sunday.

One dead, father and son rescued after yacht capsizes off Queensland coast

A 65-year-old man’s body was found several hours after the father and son were winched to safety on Sunday about 85km off the Bundaberg coast.

  • by Cameron Atfield

Politics

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Taylor Swift performing at the MCG in February.

Brisbane was poised to host multiple Taylor Swift Eras shows. Then there was trouble in Japan

Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour was booked to come to Brisbane this year, but it was Tokyo – not the lack of a venue – that caused the star to give Queensland a miss.

  • by Cameron Atfield
Mariafe Artacho del Solar will compete in a third Olympics in Paris, but likely won’t get a chance at a world title on home soil next year.

Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’

Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers, but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.

  • by Chris Barrett

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