By Emily Halverson Last year, 17 AFL players were served a one-year ban from the 2016 Premiership Season for doping at Essendon Football Club. This year the disciplined players are back enjoying footy, with very heathy pay checks to prove …
By Edwina Seselja Federal funding is shining the spotlight on teachers but one parenting body says more attention should be given to the role of guardians, to improve Australia’s education standards.
The debate over wearing the burqa has fired up again. The Prime Minister’s hosing down his comment that he found the Muslim attire confronting. But today one of his frontbenchers, Kevin Andrews, called them medieval and demeaning. Now, burqa-wearing visitors …
The pre-G20 security crackdown is widening. Government and public facilities considered high-risk terror targets, are already being closed off to the public. And authorities say, expect more shutdowns ahead of the global summit. Whitney Angell reports.
Brisbane’s 31 Digital is fighting for the right to remain on air, following a decision to strip community channels of their licences at the end of 2015. Federal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the channels can be seen on the …
By Madolline Gourley In 2007, Billboard magazine named Brisbane as one of the world’s top international music destinations. Billboard, a US magazine devoted to all things music-related, said the city’s successful acts, such as Powderfinger, The Veronicas and Pete Murray, …
As jubilant fans waited patiently outside the locked gates of Brisbane’s Riverstage, preparations were under way for hip-hop sensation Bliss n Esso to perform live in front of a sellout crowd. Sounds of bustling roadies, stallholders and Riverstage crew could …
By Sophie Benjamin I’m a multimedia journalist and so I’m not restricted by word counts, bulletin times or the limitations of any medium on its own. Even though I’m young and just barely into my career, I can’t imagine wanting …
An emotional time covering the floods in Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley Read more »
By Graham Osborne IF any student journalists have doubts about being bored stupid at a country newspaper then rest assured you’ll be anything but bored. In my first four months at the Chinchilla News there have been two floods, constant …
Congratulations to QUT students who took out the 2010 awards for some of the best journalism produced over the past year.