Chris Herde

Billionaire Chris Morris has offloaded a far north Queensland pub after buying it four years ago and embarking on a $400,000 renovation.

Five months ago Declan Kluver was burnt out, not sleeping and working 20 hours a day building a $70m business.

Qld hospitality giant axes stores as earnings plunge

Drinking venues are proving more resilient than the food services sector with the latest data showing one in ten cafes and restaurants around Australia have been forced to close over the past year as costs rise and weaker demand impacts on razor thin margins.

The future of Healthscope Hospitals, which went into administration a year ago with a $1.6bn debt, has been guaranteed, according to its receivers and managers with promise of the creation of a new not-for-profit organisation to operate its network.

The 33-year-old owner of one of Australia’s largest used car online marketplaces has had a $120m windfall after the company he founded six years ago was purchased by a Japanese vehicle giant.

Commercial property giant JLL has lost another high-profile leader from its Brisbane office to a rival which has been on a multimillion dollar recruitment drive.

The chief executives of Queensland’s top 10 ASX companies gave themselves a 15 per cent wage rise in the 2025 financial year with bonuses and incentives kicking in to fatten their wallets.

A majority of Queenslanders want the state government to either wind back the controversial coal royalty regime that’s put thousands of jobs at risk or reach a compromise with the mining industry.

The 2032 Olympics are sparking a bold expansion of Brisbane’s CBD, with fringe precincts set to become the city’s new economic engine.

Global business software company TechnologyOne has unveiled a whole-of-enterprise AI system which it says is light years ahead of the competition.

More than 12,000 Australians went broke in the past year as cost-of-living pressures and business struggles saw personal bankruptcy rates jump by 5.3 per cent.

Private Queensland miner QCoal will close down one of its underground units in the Bowen Basin, putting about 80 miners out of work because of high costs including the state government’s controversial royalties scheme.

An unlicensed builder will have to pay almost $30,000 after being caught out again by the Queensland building regulator.

The first casualty of the Queensland super coal royalty scheme and low coal prices has yet to find a buyer or a major investor to keep its mines open as the scale of its debts are revealed.

Great Southern Bank has reported a rise in its home lending business and profit, despite “a lot of little surprises” that created tough market conditions that weighed on the sector

A company that was founded by members of a venerable national law firm to provide finance IT and HR services to mid-tier and boutique legal practices will be wound up in a couple of months.

United Petroleum founders Avi Silver and Eddie Hirsch have quietly become significant shareholders in fast food franchisor Retail Food Group which is behind staples like Donut King, Gloria Jean’s, Crust Pizza and Beefy’s Pies

We’re hearing all types of chatter about plans for a Dubai-styled theme park in the Caboolture area with speculation Middle Eastern investors are eyeing a spot in the southeast for their next grand venture.

A national ASX-listed aged care giant will acquire four Rockpool homes in south east Queensland which will add 600 beds to its portfolio.