Cops swamp town in search of drugs

DOZENS of police executed morning raids across southwest Queensland this morning, targeting the region’s largest alleged ice traffickers and suppliers.

‘He’s having a favour done by being in solitary’

TIAHLEIGH Palmer’s foster brother will remain in prison until January after the Court of Appeal dismissed his complaints that life in solitary confinement was too difficult.

Manslaughter plea leads to release

UPDATE: A MAN charged over the death of his ex-partner’s four-year-old boy will be released from jail today after being sentenced to four years for manslaughter.

Penalty rates slashed for workers

THE Federal Court has backed the Fair Work Commission’s decision to slash Sunday penalty rates for hospitality, retail and fast-food workers.

Malcolm, stop the SSM survey. It’s gone too far

IT’S time to shut the vitriol-fuelled marriage equality survey down for good, writes Sherele Moody in this open letter to Malcolm Turnbull.

Angry Ange can’t have it both ways

IN JUNE, Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou was happy to be scrutinised – he even invited criticism. Four months later, he’s quit as Socceroos coach because of that criticism.

Silly Solly’s returns from the dead

IN the late 1990s no Queensland town was complete without its own Silly Solly’s. Now, more than 20 years after the discount chain was closed, it’s making a come back.

Weinstein caught in NYPD sting with model

A SECRET police recording of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has emerged as three women come forward to accuse him of rape.

The nation buying 8 per cent of new Qld homes

FEWER than one in 10 new homes in Queensland are sold to foreign buyers, but one nation accounts for almost all of those purchases, new figures show.

This luggage mistake will cost you hundreds

They’re the clever hacks you wish you knew before you rocked up at the airport. Now the experts share their tricks on dodging excess baggage fees.