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Bad weather is being blamed for a three-to-four-week postponement of next month's relocation of ministers and public servants to their new headquarters at 1 William Street in Brisbane.
Topics: government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, brisbane-4000
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The trustees responsible for the management and oversight of the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve could be removed after the findings of a bi-partisan parliamentary panel.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, urban-development-and-planning, caulfield-3162
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Chief Minister Andrew Barr flags a desire to 'radically reform' how development applications are dealt with in Canberra, suggesting a quota-based method of community consultation.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe naming of Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth in the top 10 liveable cities sparks questions over how they could best Paris, London and New York, but there may be a simple explanation — they are not that big.
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| UpdatedA $2.3 billion contract to build an inter-city train fleet for New South Wales is awarded to a company offshore.
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| UpdatedCommuters are urged to take more care when using the NSW rail network, after Sydney Trains recorded more than 1,800 slips, trips and falls in the past year.
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Research to assess the route and cost of a proposed heavy rail link to Morley will take "years" to complete, Dean Nalder tells State Parliament.
Topics: rail-transport, urban-development-and-planning, state-parliament, morley-6062, thornlie-6108
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The Brisbane City Council is accused of a conflict of interest over a property development at Toowong in Brisbane's inner west.
Topics: community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, government-and-politics, local-government, housing, house-and-home, lifestyle, toowong-4066, qld
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Port Adelaide's Fishermen's Wharf Market building could be on borrowed time, following an application by its owner to demolish the waterfront building.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, building-and-construction, port-adelaide-5015
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| UpdatedNew design guidelines are being developed to ensure apartments have adequate ventilation, natural light and storage.
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A residents' group against a Kwinana development buffer launches an online campaign saying the Government will lose the State election if it goes ahead.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, state-parliament, mandogalup-6167
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Michael Caton is one of Australia’s most loved actors whose own life has reflections of the knockabout characters he’s famous for playing.
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Townsville City Council encourages a native owl species to nest to deter bat populations in urban areas.
Topics: pests, urban-development-and-planning, townsville-4810
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The Sydney Opera House and NSW Government released a video to illustrate planned $200m upgrades at the Opera House.
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| UpdatedPlans for the biggest renovations in the history of the Sydney Opera House are unveiled, with $202 million to be spent on revamping the concert hall and upgrading other parts of the iconic building.
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Six tunnel boring machines, each weighing up to 1,000 tonnes, will be used to excavate 2 million cubic metres of soil and rock during the construction of Melbourne's Metro Rail tunnel.
Topics: states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, vic
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Commuters on the Caboolture train line have called on the Government to scrap fares when the service is closed for six days next month.
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Nearly 90 per cent of workers and materials used during the design and construction of Victoria's $5.5 billion Western Distributor road project must be from Australia, the State Government says.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, urban-development-and-planning, unions, melbourne-3000, laverton-6440
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The long-awaited Moreton Bay Rail Link could be open in a few months, but only after services on the busy Caboolture line are stopped for six days of testing.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, kippa-ring-4021, caboolture-4510
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An extra 1,400 beds for the state's jails are announced by the NSW Government under a plan that includes reopening old jails and commissioning what it calls "rapid-build" projects.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, nsw
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| UpdatedPolice reinforcements have been flown to Papua New Guinea's Hela province, ahead of what could be a tense encounter later today between a delegation of government ministers and MPs and landowners.
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| UpdatedThe discovery of 400 disused utilities, including underground pipes and cables, will push out work on the light rail network in Sydney's CBD by up to five months.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw
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