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FIRST-HOME buyers are continuing to lap up the Federal Governmentâs extended HomeBuilder Grant despite the recent $10,000 cutback to the scheme.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack made the revelation on Thursday while touring the site of a new housing development at Ripley.
He was accompanied by Senator Paul Scarr, who revealed applications for the grant had doubled since the three-month extension was announced last December.
Initially set to conclude December 31, the grant will now wind up March 31.
The original $25,000 payment for first home buyers was first was announced in June 2020 in a bid to help revive the struggling sector amid COVID-19.
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Premium Content Pressure is mounting from both sides of politics on the Palaszczuk Government to step in and approve the long-delayed New Acland coal mine expansion with hundreds of jobs on the line. There are calls urging the State Government create new laws protect and push forward with the mine s expansion, as the Bligh Government did in 2007 with the Xstrata Wollombi mine. New Hope Coal employees at the Port of Brisbane, L-R, Robby Sharp, Brent Stewart, Harry Redmond and Dale Sharp. Picture: Glenn Hunt There are fears continued delays could scare off international companies looking to invest in resources projects in Queensland.
Crown shuffling the deckchairs ahead of Bergin report
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Former judge, Patricia Bergin will hand down her report into Crown Resorts this week. Illustration: John Shakespeare
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Crown Resortsâ tense wait for
Patricia Berginâs verdict on its suitability to operate a Sydney casino is coming to an end: the former judge is set to hand her report to the NSW gaming regulator on Monday.
But it might be another fortnight before the public â and Crown executives â are able to read Berginâs recommendations, given the Independent Liquor and Gaming Regulator wants to consider the findings in private before making the report public.
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FEDERAL politicians representing Ipswich accepted gifts of footy tickets, alcohol, turf club passes and artwork in 2020.
Exactly what they declared is laid out in the register of members’ interests for senators and federal MPs.
Oxley MP Milton Dick accepted a ticket and corporate hospitality for the third game of State of Origin at Suncorp Stadium in November.
Mr Dick also accepted a ticket and corporate hospitality for the AFL game between the Brisbane Lions and Geelong Cats at the Gabba in October and two Ipswich Turf Club passes in August.
As part of his statement of registrable interests, Mr Dick declared two residences in Durack and the ACT, and two investment properties in Clayfield and Sunshine Beach.
Corporate-box tickets to major sporting events, pre-pandemic overseas flights and even a kava bowl from Samoa are among the free gifts pocketed by Queensland s federal politicians in the past year. There were flights to Bangladesh, India and Israel from lobby groups and a charity were accepted by three MPs. Meanwhile ALP figure Evan Moorhead s lobby firm Anacta Strategies shouted two Queensland Labor senators tickets to the AFL grand final valued at $2250. The gifts are revealed in the official register of interests for federal MPs and senators. One of the most prolific gift accepters was Member for Moncrieff Angie Bell, who declared on her register of interest tickets to the PGA championship, Big Bash tickets, Eurovision Australia Decides, Magic Millions Hospitality, Pink Ribbon Race Day at the Gold Coast Turf Club, two events at the Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast, as well as a study tour to Bangladesh paid for by Save the Children.