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Health by Brendan O’Malley Premium Content   Fancy an alarm clock, hair dryer or coffee grinder going off from 6am, multiple times a day, every day? That is the level of noise experienced in many suburbs since new flight paths came into effect following the opening of Brisbane's second runway last July. Airservices Australia's online Webtrak site shows noise levels have shot up at a dozen monitoring sites from Nudgee in the east, to Bardon in the west and south as far as Salisbury. Webtrak showed some of the stations routinely record noise levels abo...

  Homes are fetching eye-watering prices in key Queensland suburbs as the state's red-hot housing market shifts into a higher gear. Recent sales this year show just how much people are willing to pay to secure a property in the Sunshine State, with some transactions smashing suburb records and homes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than their asking price or reserve. Buyers are clamouring to get into the market, with auction clearance rates up around 80 per cent, and supply is tight, resulting in prices climbing all the way from Cairns to Clayfield. Hot auction markets ...

Brisbane City Council development applications flooded with public submissions that may not be properly made WedWednesday 3 updated ThuThursday 4 Impact-assessable development in Brisbane allows the community to lodge public submissions about the application. ( Share Print text only Cancel Development applications lodged with Brisbane City Council are being flooded with proforma submissions in a bid to sway the council's decision to approve or reject applications, but submitters may be wasting their time. Key points: Some developments can receive hundreds of submissions Experts say the syste...

How to make the most of your smart home tech Cutting edge technology has brought about an at-home revolution, all you need is a little creativity to perfect it. Technology by Clare Isaac and Debra Bela 20th Feb 2021 8:03 AM Premium Content Subscriber only It's now official. More of us, than ever before, are working from home. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and regular lockdowns, our working life has changed dramatically. In fact, research from Roy Morgan shows more than 4.3 million people (32 per cent of working Australia...

Triple murderer Max Sica has accused the state governor of meddling in a bold new bid to overturn his convictions, and accused the state's Attorney General of unfairly blocking his quest for exoneration. Sica claims Governor Paul de Jersey may have been "predisposed" against him, and was improperly "actively involved" in last year's decision by the Attorney General to block the state's highest court from hearing his claims. Now aged 50, and in the ninth year of his life sentence, he argues he is innocent of killing Singh siblings Neelma, 24, her brother Kunal, 18, and their sister Sidhi, 1...