The impact of the devastating weather event brings into sharp focus elements of contract law in Queensland that are in need of reform, according to lawyers and conveyancers.
Reforms will have a huge impact on the industry in terms of impact on resourcing, on process and how those changes are rolled out to conveyancers.
A return of international tourists and stay-at-home holidaymakers is driving demand for new hotel rooms.
Property market expected to continue its strong start to 2025 as rate cut spurs confidence.
Victims of dodgy builders have been promised easier access to a state-operated insurance scheme to fix shoddy work under a consumer law shake-up.
Economists highlight positive numbers as the property market moves into March and the peak of the autumn selling season.
Slowing inflation helped convince the Reserve Bank to cut rates at its last meeting but uncertainty over tariffs was also a factor, the deputy governor says.
The gender pay gap is leaving women with fewer properties and shares than men, says a survey indicating more than four in ten women have no such assets at all.
Headline inflation rate has held steady at 2.5 per cent in January, with the all-important underlying measure edging 0.1 percentage point higher.
Jacinta Allan is pushing forward plans to turn the state into a townhouse capital, with reforms blocking neighbours from appealing against three storey developments.
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