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The celebratory spirit of up to 1000 people in Brisbane’s CBD for a special Hanukkah in the City event was shattered as news from Bondi filtered through on Sunday night.
‘We stayed, we danced’: Brisbane Hanukkah lights shine on in face of deadly Bondi terror attack
Brisbane Rabbi Levi Jaffe said he and members of his community decided not to abandon a Hanukkah event in the city, even as police swarmed the area to bolster security.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The celebratory spirit of up to 1000 people in Brisbane’s CBD for a special Hanukkah in the City event was shattered as news from Bondi filtered through on Sunday night.
Here is the latest on the terrorist attack that targeted Sydney's Jewish community.
LIVE: NSW Premier Chris Minns says he won’t hesitate to change the state’s gun laws if required. Follow our live updates: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw...
LIVE: NSW Premier Chris Minns says he won’t hesitate to change the state’s gun laws if required. Follow our live updates: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw...
Bondi Beach shooting live updates: Police confirm shooters were father and son, Naveed Akram identified; multiple people killed, injured in antisemitic attack on Chanukah by the Sea celebration
Sydney is reeling after Australia’s first mass shooting in nearly thirty years targeted a Jewish celebration on Bondi Beach. Follow here for rolling updates.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here is the latest on the terrorist attack that targeted Sydney's Jewish community.
LIVE: NSW Premier Chris Minns says he won’t hesitate to change the state’s gun laws if required. Follow our live updates: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw...
LIVE: NSW Premier Chris Minns says he won’t hesitate to change the state’s gun laws if required. Follow our live updates: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw...
Good morning Brisbane, here are Sunday's top stories.
A car that struck a group in Maroochydore has left a young man and woman in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A car that struck a group in Maroochydore has left a young man and woman in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Pair suffer critical injuries as car ploughs into eight pedestrians
The driver allegedly fled the scene of the crash, just before midnight on Saturday, but was arrested nearby.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Good morning Brisbane, here are Sunday's top stories.
A car that struck a group in Maroochydore has left a young man and woman in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A car that struck a group in Maroochydore has left a young man and woman in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Happy Saturday Brisbane! Here are today's top stories.
Brisbane City Council plans to create homes for thousands more people in Mount Gravatt, but not everyone is pleased.
Brisbane City Council plans to create homes for thousands more people in Mount Gravatt, but not everyone is pleased.
‘Dramatic density’: Plan for apartment towers is dividing this Brisbane suburb
Some are convinced it’s the solution for a wilting high street, while others are certain infrastructure will be completely overwhelmed.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Happy Saturday Brisbane! Here are today's top stories.
Brisbane City Council plans to create homes for thousands more people in Mount Gravatt, but not everyone is pleased.
Brisbane City Council plans to create homes for thousands more people in Mount Gravatt, but not everyone is pleased.
Happy Friday, here's what's making headlines:
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online.
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online.
Reddit files High Court bid to overturn teen social media ban
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy Friday, here's what's making headlines:
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online.
The platform says banning under-16s from social media silences young Australians and makes them less safe online.
A flight almost ended in tragedy in September when a skydiver’s parachute got caught on the tail of a plane over Far North Queensland.
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Read more here: shorturl.at/Fygcy
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A flight almost ended in tragedy in September when a skydiver’s parachute got caught on the tail of a plane over Far North Queensland.
Read more here: shorturl.at/Fygcy
Read more here: shorturl.at/Fygcy
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
Emails reveal MP backed state-funded project on councillor’s land
The emails show Rebecca Young approved of a plan to shift a building project to land owned by a local councillor who had supported her election campaign.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
BREAKING: Queensland Police unlawfully gave victims’ addresses to domestic and family violence offenders in seven cases, despite being aware of the risks for years, a report has found.
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Police knew for years of risk of handing DV victims’ details to offenders
After revelations last year, the state’s Information Commissioner has found unaddressed failures of police policies and systems breached privacy laws.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
BREAKING: Queensland Police unlawfully gave victims’ addresses to domestic and family violence offenders in seven cases, despite being aware of the risks for years, a report has found.
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Queensland children as young as 10 could be fitted with ankle monitors when applying for bail in a further expansion of the LNP government’s tough on crime agenda.
Queensland to slap ankle monitors on 10-year-olds on bail
Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber will introduce laws to parliament which could see an ankle monitor applied to any child seeking bail.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Queensland children as young as 10 could be fitted with ankle monitors when applying for bail in a further expansion of the LNP government’s tough on crime agenda.
Australia’s world-first social media ban legislation comes into effect today. Follow our live coverage. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/fed...
Australia social media ban LIVE updates: Children under 16 barred from social media as world-first legislation takes effect
Australia’s social media ban comes into effect today, with children under 16 barred from some of the most popular social media apps in the world. Follow our live coverage.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Australia’s world-first social media ban legislation comes into effect today. Follow our live coverage. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/fed...
#BREAKING The man who murdered 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley at a remote beach north of Cairns has been sentenced to at least 25 years in jail.
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More here: shorturl.at/cSuMX
Toyah Cordingley’s killer sentenced to 25 years in prison
The sentence comes at the end of a four-week retrial of the man who was extradited from India to face the charge.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
#BREAKING The man who murdered 24-year-old Toyah Cordingley at a remote beach north of Cairns has been sentenced to at least 25 years in jail.
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More here: shorturl.at/cSuMX
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
Voters warming to Miles as Crisafulli’s popularity continues to slip
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
Good afternoon, here are some of today's top local headlines:
Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of the murder of 24-year-old pharmacy worker Toyah Cordingley in far north Queensland seven years ago.
Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of the murder of 24-year-old pharmacy worker Toyah Cordingley in far north Queensland seven years ago.
Rajwinder Singh found guilty of murdering Toyah Cordingley
Cordingley’s body was found half-buried in isolated sand dunes after she failed to return home from a Sunday afternoon walk with her dog.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Good afternoon, here are some of today's top local headlines:
Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of the murder of 24-year-old pharmacy worker Toyah Cordingley in far north Queensland seven years ago.
Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of the murder of 24-year-old pharmacy worker Toyah Cordingley in far north Queensland seven years ago.
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
‘I don’t write the rules’: Wells, PM defend using taxpayer funds to bring family to ski resort
Labor is defending the sport and communications minister’s family reunion on the slopes after earlier revelations of six-figure claims for international travel.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Sports Minister Anika Wells has ducked questions about whether her use of entitlements passed the “pub test”.
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Emma Lovell murder case heads to High Court after teen killer’s sentence cut
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines today:
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Queensland’s attorney-general sought to overturn the decision to cut the killer’s 14-year sentence, which will now be reconsidered.
Morning, here's what's headlines today:
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Brisbane 2032 Olympics adopts church slogan as ‘Games vision’
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Morning, here's what's headlines today:
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Organisers unveiled “Believe. Belong. Become. Brisbane 2032” as the motto for Australia’s third Olympics after consultation including 40 workshops. It might sound familiar.
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
How Brisbane’s 20 biggest high schools performed in national tests
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Good morning, here's what's making headlines:
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Some of the highest-achieving high schools are also Brisbane’s most sought-after. Others hold surprises.
Police are this morning on the scene of a reported shooting in a park south of Brisbane.
Man dead after shooting in park
Police have arrested a man after a fatal shooting in a park south of Brisbane overnight.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Police are this morning on the scene of a reported shooting in a park south of Brisbane.
BREAKING: A man has received life-threatening injuries following a retaining wall collapse on a worksite in South Brisbane.
December 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
BREAKING: A man has received life-threatening injuries following a retaining wall collapse on a worksite in South Brisbane.
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Brisbane electric car sales go backwards for first time
Every previous year over the past decade sales went up – often by enormous margins.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good morning, here are today's top headlines.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Electric car sales in Brisbane have gone backwards for the first time since they became widely available.
Good morning - here is a quick wrap of what's making headlines in Brisbane today.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
Brisbane Airport relaxes wind rules in bid to reduce aircraft noise
More flights will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to reduce noise over city suburbs.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Good morning - here is a quick wrap of what's making headlines in Brisbane today.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
To start: More flights in and out of Brisbane Airport will be directed over Moreton Bay during an 18-month trial to relax tailwind restrictions for aircraft, reducing flight noise over city suburbs.
Speaking on Sunday with his new LNP colleague, Wayde Chiesa, Crisafulli said the win showed his government was on the right path.
LNP extends parliamentary majority with ‘emphatic’ byelection win
Premier David Crisafulli is celebrating after his sitting government became the first to win a byelection since 1998.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Speaking on Sunday with his new LNP colleague, Wayde Chiesa, Crisafulli said the win showed his government was on the right path.
Good morning, here are our top stories to help you while away your Sunday.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
The real reason Albanese kept his wedding top secret
It was the worst-kept secret in political circles, but somehow, everyone agreed to stay shtum about the wedding.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good morning, here are our top stories to help you while away your Sunday.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
PM Anthony Albanese had long insisted his wedding to Jodie Haydon would be small and intimate. But behind his breezy remarks lay a sober calculation.
Here's what's making headlines this morning:
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
Teenager wounded at large Brisbane house party
The boy’s alleged attacker fled the scene before police broke up the party in Clayfield overnight.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here's what's making headlines this morning:
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
A teenage boy suffered a “significant wound” to his back at a house party in Brisbane’s north overnight.
Here's what's making headlines this Friday:
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Security fears over Chinese-made Brisbane buses dismissed as xenophobic
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Here's what's making headlines this Friday:
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.
Transport chair Andrew Wines denied being “involved in espionage”, saying Brisbane’s four Chinese-made buses pose minimal risk to the city.