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Pauline Hanson claims Brisbane councillor racially vilified her by calling One Nation ‘racist’

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Party leader threatens to take Labor’s Emily Kim to Human Rights Commission over ‘racial comments’

Pauline Hanson has threatened to take Emily Kim, a Brisbane city councillor to the Human Rights Commission, claiming racial vilification for Kim describing One Nation as “racist”.

Kim, a Labor councillor received a letter from Hanson’s legal representative Donald Bundesen by email on 25 October, the day before Queensland’s state election.

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‘Fly high beautiful girl’: Thorneside residents pay tribute to eight-year-old girl and babysitter lost in house fire

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Investigators are working to determine cause of blaze that claimed lives of Raven Contini and 31-year-old Stephanie Ryan

Floral tributes and messages of condolence are gathering outside a home east of Brisbane after a blaze killed an eight-year-old girl and her babysitter.

Raven Contini and 31-year-old Stephanie Ryan, were found dead in the Thorneside home after a fire ripped through the townhouse on Sunday morning.

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Second body found at scene of Queensland house fire that killed girl, 8

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Body believed to be that of missing 31-year-old babysitter located at destroyed townhouse in Thorneside

Queensland police have found the body of a second person at the scene of a house fire at Thorneside, south of Brisbane, believed to be that of a missing 31-year-old woman.

It comes after the body of an eight-year-old girl was found by Queensland Fire and Emergency Services after the fire was extinguished on Sunday.

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Liz Truss urges conservatives to ‘defund state media’ as she rails against left at Australian CPAC event

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Former British prime minister also criticises the Bank of England and bureaucrats in speech at rightwing conference in Brisbane

Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, has claimed the left is winning “the argument” and called for the defunding of public broadcasters to help win it back during a speech at the Australian Conservative Political Action Conference.

About 1,000 people at the CPAC conference in Brisbane also heard the former Conservative party leader blame the “unelected Bank of England” for a financial crisis which contributed to her departure as prime minister after just 49 days, following her disastrous mini-budget.

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Five things you should know about the Queensland election

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The sunshine state is heading to the polls on 26 October. Can Labor cling to power or will there be an LNP landslide?

Queenslanders will go to the polls on 26 October. Here are five things you should know.

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Brisbane e-scooter operator Beam loses licence over alleged breach of daily cap

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City council alleges cap on scooter numbers ‘systematically exceeded’ by 500 a day but company ‘disagrees’ with claims, saying it is ‘reviewing options’

Brisbane has become the first Australian city to kick out an e-scooter operator, after the council cancelled the licence for Beam to operate over allegations it regularly breached its caps.

The Brisbane city council said it would now seek a replacement e-scooter operator for the city, after an investigation found Beam had “systematically exceeded” its cap on numbers by about 500 a day. The company has denied “assertions” made by council.

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More August temperature records expected to fall amid warm weather and winds across east coast

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Unseasonably strong winds and record-breaking warm weather has been forecast to continue through the weekend


Winter has ended in Australia with weather records broken across the country – with expectations of August temperature records being broken on the final day of the month.

Amid wild winds in the country’s south, a warm run of weather was expected to continue through the weekend in central and southern Queensland, along with north-eastern New South Wales. Brisbane is expected to see multiple days of over 30C.

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Nine-month-old baby undergoes surgery after man allegedly pours hot coffee on him

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Police increase patrols near Hanlon Park in Brisbane after nine-month-old boy taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries

The mother of a baby boy hospitalised after hot coffee was allegedly poured on him by a stranger has described the experience as “torture”.

The nine-month-old underwent surgery after suffering burns to his face and chest following what police described as a “cowardly” and random attack in a Brisbane park.

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Brisbane’s bus rapid transit service to expand to outer suburbs in time for 2032 Olympics

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The city’s LNP mayor and the state Labor government have agreed to work together on 22 new stations, including the airport

Brisbane’s Metro bus rapid transit service is set to expand to the outer suburbs of the city in time for the 2032 Olympics in a plan which now has the backing of the Labor state government.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner and premier Steven Miles will on Wednesday jointly announce a “long-term” plan for 22 new stations, expanding the service to Springwood, Capalaba, Carseldine, and the Brisbane airport.

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Australian punk rock pioneers the Saints announce national tour

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Joining founding guitarist Ed Kuepper and drummer Ivor Hay in new five-piece lineup for November tour will be Mudhoney singer Mark Arm

The Saints – the Brisbane band who jump-started the punk movement in Australia with their hot-wired debut single (I’m) Stranded – have announced a national tour in November with a new five-piece lineup, more than 50 years after their rough beginnings.

Joining founding guitarist Ed Kuepper and drummer Ivor Hay will be singer Mark Arm, from the Seattle band Mudhoney. Arm replaces the original singer and primary lyricist, Chris Bailey, who died in April 2022.

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Bus driver charged over Brisbane CBD crash that fatally pinned 18-year-old to wall

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Tia Cameron died after a bus mounted a kerb and pinned her against a wall during peak hour on 8 March

A bus driver has been charged with careless driving over a crash that fatally pinned an 18-year-old woman against a wall in Brisbane’s city centre.

The horror crash unfolded during peak hour on 8 March when the bus mounted a kerb and pinned Tia Cameron against a wall in the CBD.

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Brisbane’s homes now second-most expensive in Australia, with average value of almost $1m

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Queensland’s capital is second only to Sydney with a median house value of $937,479, as lack of supply bites

For the first time in 25 years, Brisbane is Australia’s second-most expensive city for housing.

The Queensland capital edged out Canberra in May, the latest CoreLogic report shows, with a median house value of $937,479. Sydney continues to have the priciest homes in the country.

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Hit the road: will 24 new multimillion-dollar electric buses be left sitting in a Brisbane shed?

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Brisbane city council ordered 60 of the electric vehicles, but a cut back in scheduled services means just over half may be needed

Two dozen state-of-the art, multimillion-dollar electric buses could be left sitting idle in a shed when the Brisbane Metro service starts operations this year, because it will operate less frequently than initially planned.

The system was originally designed to operate every three minutes, but it’s now planned to run every five minutes, which would require fewer vehicles.

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‘Like a moving stage’: Brisbane commuters surprised by impromptu ‘train rave’

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DJ Kyel 925 says the rave set on a train on Brisbane’s Shorncliffe line resulted in passengers dancing in the aisles

Commuters on a Sunday evening train were surprised when the Brisbane suburban service was transformed into an ad hoc rave by a local DJ.

Kyel 925, from NO. ONE NETWORK and Liquid Steele Sessions, said the group had been heading from a gig with a media trolley on the Shorncliffe line from Fortitude Valley at about 6.30pm when they had the idea.

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Broncos rally around Payne Haas after father arrested in the Philippines over alleged drug trafficking

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Gregor Johann Haas, 46, was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday and is facing extradition to Indonesia, where he is accused of drug trafficking

Brisbane coach Kevin Walters says the club are supporting prop Payne Haas “in every way” after the player’s father was arrested in the Philippines and facing extradition to Indonesia, where he is accused of drug trafficking.

Gregor Johann Haas, 46, was arrested in Cebu City on Wednesday, according to local media reports.

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Woolworths shelves left bare across parts of Queensland after ‘terrible IT problem’

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Customers take to social media to complain after stores in Brisbane and state’s south-east left without fresh produce

A “terrible IT problem” is behind empty shelves at some Woolworths stores in Queensland.

In scenes reminiscent of the panic buying of the early Covid pandemic, some Woolworths chains have been stripped of fruit and vegetables.

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Two charged with murder after allegedly torturing Brisbane man at Queensland property

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Woman and man, aged 21 and 23, facing charges including murder and deprivation of liberty after alleged victim died in hospital

A Queensland man who was allegedly held captive, tortured and beaten at a remote property north of Brisbane has died in hospital, police say.

A woman and man, aged 21 and 23, had initially been charged with attempted murder and a series of other offences after police were called to the property at Mount Mee on Wednesday evening.

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‘The model is broken’: Brisbane live music venue the Zoo to close after 32 years

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Fortitude Valley institution and sister venue Stranded will soon shut as owner cites cost-of-living pressures and young people drinking less

The Brisbane music venue the Zoo will call last drinks in July, with the owner listing a “perfect storm” of forces leading to its closure, including cost-of-living pressures and declining alcohol consumption among young people.

The 500-capacity room, which first opened its doors on Ann Street in 1992 in the formerly down-at-heel but now heavily gentrified inner suburb of Fortitude Valley, is one of Australia’s oldest music venues.

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Albanese heckled at Canberra rally to end violence against women – as it happened

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Dai Le says funding for domestic violence prevention more important than a royal commission

Asked about social media platform Twitter and Elon Musk’s claims that efforts to ensure a video of a stabbing of an Assyrian priest be taken down globally would constitute a threat to “free speech”, Dai Le says supports the government’s effort but has concerns about potential overreach:

Honestly, how can we not stop images of violence?

What I think government needs to do is to get the funding and target that to communities. Communities are experiencing high domestic violence. Getting it implemented … ,making sure that we don’t alienate one group from another [is important].

It’s just not something people can take. It is very emotional for people and me as a person who escaped Vietnam and being a child who ran from the war, it’s very traumatic for me and very traumatic for people in my community.

I think that everybody, from my understanding, would like a two-state solution.

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Fine weather forecast for most of Australia’s capitals across the Easter long weekend

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A weather system moving in from the south-west will bring rain across southern regions from Monday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology

The long weekend has brought fine weather to Australia’s capitals – but most cities will see a soggy return to work on Tuesday.

Despite a foggy start to Saturday morning in Melbourne and rain across Brisbane and Darwin, sunshine is forecast for Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide with similar conditions to continue through Saturday and Sunday.

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