Brisbane Times

1 day ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Gabriella Coslovich

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When she was a little girl, Hayley Millar Baker would cover her ears with her long dark hair before falling asleep. She did so as a sign that she was unavailable to the spirit world. It was her way of saying, “I’m not up for talking, I don’t want to hear you tonight”, she tells me when we meet at Buxton Contemporary gallery in Melbourne. It’s a habit she continues to this day.

1 day ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Gabriella Coslovich

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When she was a little girl, Hayley Millar Baker would cover her ears with her long dark hair before falling asleep. She did so as a sign that she was unavailable to the spirit world. It was her way of saying, “I’m not up for talking, I don’t want to hear you tonight”, she tells me when we meet at Buxton Contemporary gallery in Melbourne. It’s a habit she continues to this day.

2 days ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Charlotte Grieve

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. David Shayegan hasn’t heard from his sister since Iran’s internet cut out last week. “I can’t tolerate it any more,” she texted, followed by two crying emojis. “It’s like world war.”The last time they spoke, Israeli bombs were falling, the banks were closed and food was scarce. From his home in Noble Park, the 33-year-old arranged for an old friend to drop over supplies.

2 days ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Felicity Caldwell

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every Queensland primary school student will get $100 wiped off their back-to-school costs next year, but that won’t even cover the cost of pencils and books. The LNP government’s Back to School Boost will give $100 to every state, Catholic and independent primary school student from January 1, and it will not be means tested.

3 days ago | brisbanetimes.com.au | Felicity Caldwell |Fraser Barton |Courtney Kruk |William Davis

Pinned post from James Harrison saved up to 2.4 million babies during his life. But how? Harrison had a precious antibody in his blood that was used to make the medication anti-D. Anti-D is given to mothers whose Rh-negative blood type can mean their body will see their baby’s Rh-positive blood as a foreign object and mount an attack that may kill their unborn child.