Australia’s competition watchdog will begin the public phase of its inquiry into the nation’s electricity prices this week, with a forum to gain feedback from customers slugged with rising power costs to be held in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Category: Updates from Brisbane Times – Queensland
Queensland to trial professional foster carers in new $3 million program
Nurses and teachers will be targeted in a Queensland trial of professional foster carers to keep up to 30 children and young people with high-support needs in a stable home environment.
USS Ronald Reagan, with 3000 sailors on board, docks at Port of Brisbane
All eyes were out to sea on Sunday morning and into the afternoon as the silhouette on the horizon gradually became bigger and clearer until the 20-storey high US aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, had arrived at the Port of Brisbane.
Alleged car thief charged after ute stolen from Brisbane business had hidden tracking device
Police will allege the accused was arrested with the stolen car’s keys still in his pocket, after abandoning the ute.
Sharron Phillips disappeared 31 years ago. Now her sister is paying to continue the search herself
Sharron Phillips’ eldest sister has begun to search an area of bushland beside her old family home at Riverview for Sharron’s body 31 years after she disappeared.
Government announces hospital parking relief, but Lady Cilento concerns remain
Car parking is set to become cheaper at Queensland hospitals, with the state government committing $7.5 million to provide additional free and discounted spaces at the state’s public hospitals.
One dead, another injured after separate crashes on Queensland roads
The driver of a Holden Commodore, a 27-year-old Edmonton man, was taken to Innisfail Hospital where he died a short time later.
USS Ronald Reagan set to dock in Brisbane
A flagship American aircraft carrier is set to dock in Brisbane on Sunday and give its crew of thousands a chance to explore the Queensland capital.
Man allegedly robbed, tied to chair, tortured in home north of Brisbane
Police said the 21-year-old man was invited into a Deception Bay house, where he was attacked by two men, one of which was known to the alleged victim.
Police charge man with arson after caravan, shed destroyed in far north Queensland
Officers found the two structures engulfed in flames after responding to a disturbance in Watsonville, 110 kilometres south-west of Cairns.