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Skin alone cannot detect if your washing is dry

Kate Poole and Felix Aplin It’s a cold winter afternoon and you’ve just brought the washing in. Suddenly, you pause. Are these clothes a bit damp? In the laundry

Tobacco tax push ‘unlikely to stop illicit cigarette trade’

By Becky Freeman, Christina Watts and Sam Egger One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called for a 75 percent cut to the tobacco tax and a freeze on any price indexation

Weather becoming a big factor in travel plans

By Kerstin Zander and Stephen Garnett Before booking a holiday, it pays to check the weather. Rain can turn a joyful trip into a glum stretch of days. Soaring

Public transport being used more for night trips

Brisbane residents are using public transport more to move around the city on Friday and Saturday nights, and on weekends. Brisbane City Council figures show that

Major changes coming for Brisbane building rules

Major changes to building rules will come into effect next month as Brisbane City Council continues to push through its plan to create more housing in key areas. Changes

Regions responding to rising infrastructure demand

Regional Australia is continuing to transform through major infrastructure delivery, improved lifestyle amenity and growing economic confidence. That is the observation

Port of Brisbane strives to be a ‘good ancestor’

A famous Swiss watchmaker says you never really own one of its products, instead you merely look after it for the next generation. Port of Brisbane CEO Neil Stephens has

Oral exams return to crack down on cheating

Analysis – Nicole Brownlie Universities are increasingly turning to oral exams to stop students using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat. Some unis say it

Excess light rail equipment being sold at auction

Surplus equipment and materials from the Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 3 are being sold at auction. Bidding for more than 600 batches of civil construction and industrial

Ban on card surcharges may have big rent impacts

By Fengfei Li From October 1, businesses will no longer be able to add surcharges to payments made on the EFTPOS, Visa or Mastercard networks, following reforms by the

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