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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Tobi Loftus |Claudia Williams |Julius Dennis
Not so long ago Queensland was considered an integral part of Peter Dutton's path to the Lodge. Instead, Labor gained seven seats in the Sunshine State, including five from the LNP. Suburban Brisbane seats once considered home to Howard's battlers — and later Scott Morrison's quiet Australians — turned away from the Coalition on a scale beyond even Labor insiders' predictions. Forde, to Brisbane's south, and Petrie to its north, are prime examples.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Higgins |Claudia Williams
In the quick-shifting world of politics it can be difficult to figure out where you sit on the political spectrum — left, right or centre, but the ABC's Vote Compass is here to help. After five weeks of campaigning, commitments, debates and discussion from politicians, we need to cast our ballot tomorrow. But which party stands where?
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams |Isabella Higgins
After three years of conflict, leadership changes and now trade wars, the views of many Australians towards the United States and China are shifting, Vote Compass data shows. About 47 per cent of Vote Compass respondents believe Australia should be less close to the US, about a third believe the relationship should stay the same and just over 17 per cent want it to be closer.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Higgins |Claudia Williams
The Coalition's pitch for nuclear power in Australia appears to be struggling for support among some key voters, as the nation prepares to vote on its energy future. New data from the ABC's Vote compass survey shows respondents are divided on nuclear energy, while support for climate change action appears to have softened.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Three men have been charged with armed robbery after allegedly forcing their way into a Brisbane home disguised as delivery workers and stealing more than $1 million in cash. Police allege the men entered the house at Karawatha with handguns and dressed in a uniform for a fake removals and cleaning business, wearing fake beards and Santa hats, on January 3.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
For 52 years people were removed from their homes and forced to live on an island off the Queensland coast. More than500 people were sent to a colony on Peel Island in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, from 1907 until its closure in 1959. They all had one thing in common — they had been diagnosed with leprosy. For many it was a life sentence, with about 200 people buried on the island. "It wasn't a hospital.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams |Rachel Stewart
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki says he has been warned by Treasury there is a "growing risk" the state's AA+ credit rating will be downgraded. A lower rating would lead to higher borrowing costs for the state for projects ahead of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. It comes as Treasury forecast in the June budget that coal revenue was expected to weaken over the forward estimates.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Jessica Black |Claudia Williams |Grace Ann Whiteside
By Jessica Black, Claudia Williams, Grace WhitesideA Comanchero outlaw bikie gang leader has been charged over Australia's largest ever cocaine seizure, police say. A transnational organised crime syndicate with links to the Comancheros is alleged to have attempted to bring 2.34 tonnes of cocaine into Australia.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland's Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry will pause its work plan despite concerns stopping it would be a "lost opportunity", as the newly elected state government vows to end the inquiry. In the lead-up to Saturday's election, now-Premier David Crisafulli said his government would not continue with the inquiry and would repeal the state's Path to Treaty Act. Today, Mr Crisafulli confirmed it would be scrapped but said he did not wish to make it a "divisive issue".
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claudia Williams
Queensland's Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry will pause its work despite concerns stopping it would be a "lost opportunity", as the newly-elected state government vows to end the inquiry. In the lead-up to Saturday's election, now-Premier David Crisafulli said his government would not continue with the inquiry and would repeal the state's Path to Treaty Act. Today, Mr Crisafulli confirmed it would be scrapped but said he did not wish to make it a "divisive issue".
