Cameron Atfield is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times
Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has called for public funding of council campaigns as he faced a grilling at a Crime and Corruption Commission hearing into alleged corruption during the 2016 Queensland local government elections.
A Gold Coast councillor who received $30,000 in donations from the Liberal National Party while running as an independent candidate last year has conceded voters could conclude she was anything but independent.
"Compared to 2012, I believe the level of complaints were significantly higher," the head of Queensland's electoral commission said.
Clean Air Queensland says communities are being exposed to undisclosed and unregulated fine particle pollution concentrations.
Not everything needs to have meaning. Certainly not a bunch of people sliding down a tarp covered with watermelon remains in inner-city Brisbane.
Two Queensland philanthropists have taken committed more than $18.5 million to a south-east Queensland conservation project and insisted it was more than just a flight of fancy.
An in-principle agreement over a new mega-cruise ship terminal at the mouth of the Brisbane River had been reached, the state government announced on Sunday, paving the way for a detailed business case to go ahead.
The scrapping of the Liberal National Party-preferred Bus and Train Tunnel was a blessing for the people of Brisbane, the city's LNP deputy mayor Adrian Schrinner says.
Brisbane City Council's proposed metro system will eventually be extended to Chermside, Carindale and Springwood, deputy mayor Adrian Schrinner said as more details of the revised project were revealed.
More Queenslanders die of heart disease than any other cause, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics released on Tuesday.
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