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Good morning and welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog for Monday, November 10. Today could bring a shower or two, with a top of 26 degrees.
Here are this morning’s local headlines:
Kristy Maree Horn often presented as the face of the empowerment studio.Credit: Instagram
The lights were dim, the screams of support were loud and dance classes were almost always sold out. But in recent weeks, a dance empire has crumbled, amid claims of unpaid work and emotional manipulation engulfing the close-knit circle.
On Sunday, Premier David Crisafulli said the “cannoli diplomacy” would end between him and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. He accused Canberra of shirking its responsibilities around health funding and said the federal government was turning a blind eye to stranded patients.
Queensland’s LNP state council has called on the Crisafulli government to abolish payroll tax by 2032, among a series of resolutions at a weekend party gathering – also including policies on transgender people and public broadcasting sell-offs.
The state government has also been accused of failing to meaningfully respond to concerns from groups helping adopted Queenslanders reconnect with forcibly separated family.
For 50 years, a Brisbane family kept a secret about events leading up to a cataclysmic moment in Australian politics. Now they have gone public.
Gough Whitlam, Joh Bjelke-Petersen and the American interference that contributed to the Dismissal.Credit: Marija Ercegovac
And as FrogID Week gets under way, Brisbane writer Andrew Stafford reveals a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog that gave birth by vomiting its young.
