| Nine News Queensland | |
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| Genre | News |
| Presented by | News: Melissa Downes (weeknights) Joel Dry (weeknights) Mia Glover (weekends) Sport: Jonathan Uptin (weeknights) Dominique Loudon (weekends) Weather: Garry Youngberry (Sunday – Thursday) Luke Bradnam (Friday – Saturday) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Brisbane,Queensland |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nine Network |
| Release | 17 August 1959 (1959-08-17) – present |
Nine News Queensland is the flagship state-based news bulletin of the Nine Network inBrisbane,Australia. Like allNine News bulletins, the Queensland bulletin runs for one hour nightly at 6:00pm.[1] The bulletin also airs, albeit on a half-hour delay, in the Northern Territory.[2][3] It comprises local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.
Unlike the other four metropolitan bulletins, this local edition ofNine News is addressed on-air by its state, rather than its city.
The 6pm bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio stationRiver 94.9, across regional Queensland on theWIN Network as well as throughNTD inDarwin and throughout remote eastern and central Australia onImparja Television.
Bruce Paige andHeather Foord co-anchored the 6:00pm bulletin from 1995 until 2001, when Foord joined Mike London as a weekend presenter andJillian Whiting replaced her on weeknights. London resigned in June 2003 after allegations emerged that he had organised a female friend to complain about the presentation of weeknight presenter Bruce Paige.[4] Foord and Whiting swapped positions in 2004 with Melissa Downes taking over as weekend presenter in 2006.
Foord resigned as weeknight presenter on 5 December 2008[5] and was replaced byMelissa Downes on weeknights withEva Milic and former ABC news presenter Andrew Lofthouse fronting weekend bulletins. A year later, Bruce Paige stepped down from the weeknight chair (he was replaced by Lofthouse) and Heather Foord returned to present weekend bulletins solo for two years. Paige returned to full-time newsreading in January 2012, frontingNine Gold Coast News solo until he was paired withWendy Kingston in July 2016.
In February 2018, in a minor network reshuffle, Alison Ariotti stepped down from the Weekend role. Darren Curtis anchored the bulletin before he was replaced by then-Nine News Regional Queensland presenterJonathan Uptin.[6][7]
In January 2023, long-serving sports presenterWally Lewis resigned from the role, citing health concerns.[8] He was replaced byJonathan Uptin,[9] who formerly presented the weekend news between 2018 and 2022. His position was subsequently taken over by Mia Glover.[10]
In January 2025, Lofthouse announced that he would step down from presenting the bulletin, with immediate effect.[11]
In May 2025, Nine announced that Joel Dry would return to the network, succeedingAndrew Lofthouse and joiningMelissa Downes as co-presenter starting in August.[12]
Throughout the 1990s, and right up until the mid-2000s,Nine News Queensland was the clear-cut ratings leader in Brisbane.[13] However, when weathermanJohn Schluter resigned just short of what would have been his 25th anniversary with theNine Network towards the end of 2006 (subsequently joining the rivalSeven News Brisbane),[14] sports presenterWally Lewis took sick leave after collapsing on-air during a nightly bulletin in November of the same year,[15] and rivalSeven Brisbane poached then-Today news presenterSharyn Ghidella from Nine shortly after to read its weekend news (and later weeknights),[16] the ratings declined, and in 2007,Nine News Queensland would lose its long-standing ratings dominance in the local market to the rivalSeven News Brisbane.[17][18][5][19][20] AfterAndrew Lofthouse andMelissa Downes took over as the chief co-presenters in mid-2009,Nine News Queensland would start to chip away at Seven's lead,[21] and by 2013 they would reclaim its mantle as the top-rating news bulletin in Brisbane.[22][23][24][25] As of 2018,Nine News Queensland has lost its ratings lead toSeven News Brisbane once again.[26]
TheNine News Queensland bulletins on 20 and 21 August 2011 included live coverage each night by reporters Melissa Mallet andCameron Price, respectively, from the station's helicopter, which they claimed was "nearBeerwah", where the remains of murdered schoolboyDaniel Morcombe had been found earlier that month. The reports were revealed to be fake when, on the second night, rival stationChannel Seven recorded video of the Nine helicopter sitting on the helipad outside their studios atMount Coot-tha at the time of the broadcast. Radar footage also revealed that, on the first night, the helicopter was actually hovering overChapel Hill, 70 km (43 mi) away from Beerwah. Both Mallet and Price, as well as news producer Aaron Wakeley, were sacked by theNine Network following the incident, and news director Lee Anderson accepted responsibility and resigned over the faked reports.[27] Despite the scandal, Nine experienced a spike in its 6:00 pm news ratings in the weeks that followed,[28][29] managed to win more weeks than it did in the previous three years combined (winning seven of the 32 ratings weeks up to the first week of October),[30] and recovered to reclaim its mantle as Queensland's most-watched news service by 2013.[22][25]
| Role | Bulletins | ||||||
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| News | Melissa Downes(2009–present) Joel Dry(2025–present) | Mia Glover(2023–present) | |||||
| Sport | Jonathan Uptin(2023–present) | Dominique Loudon(2023–present) | |||||
| Weather | Garry Youngberry(2009–present) | Luke Bradnam(2016–present) | Gary Youngberry(2009–present) | ||||
The primary fill-in anchors are Wendy Kingston, Aislin Kriukelis and Paul Taylor. Other fill-in presenters include
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