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Global private equity ­company Blackstone will convert Brisbane’s “ghost tower” into a build-to-rent asset after finalising its purchase from Chinese-backed group R&F Property Group.

A Brisbane building firm specialising in luxury home renovations has collapsed owing almost $2m, joining the growing list of construction failures this year.

COVID-19 is quickly becoming a memory for Jamie Pherous’ Corporate Travel Management (CTM) with the company having a stellar year as travellers returned in big numbers to airports around the country.

When Queensland farmer Ian Cameron reaped a bumper wheat crop back in 1979, he headed to the then burgeoning tourist town of Noosa with a pocketful of cash.

High-profile hotel developer Michael Malouf has picked up a prized stretch of beachfront land at Noosa for $16.2m after a bitter legal battle that forced out a Queensland farming family.

Forget solar panels, semiconductors and batteries – apparently it’s cheap Australian-made laundry detergent that consumers are crying out for during this cost-of-living crisis.

Brissie medtech firms aim for global expansion

Glass manufacturer Orora, which this week rejected a $3.4bn bid from US private equity firm Lone Star, has flagged the sale of its North American packaging business to concentrate on supplying high-end liquor bottle to brands including Glenfiddich and Hennessy.

Rio Tinto says it will partner with the Queensland government to ensure the financial viability of its Boyne aluminium smelter in the industrial city of Gladstone.

Suncorp shareholders will have to wait a bit longer for promised lolly from the $4.9bn sale of its banking business to ANZ.