Here's how Melbourne embraced having a high-rise school
Is this the future of schools in space-crammed cities?
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Tony Moore
Tony Moore is a senior reporter for brisbanetimes.com.au.
Deputy Mayor votes on her donors' developments
The Gold Coast's deputy mayor remained in a Gold Coast City Council meeting and voted on three issues when she personally received electoral donations from consultants to those developments at the 2016 Gold Coast City Council election.
Queensland's overseas tourists: Where they came from in 2016
Queensland's airports – mainly the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Cairns - are showing big jumps in international tourists from Asia and China, the latest figures reveal.
Sand quarry quarrel: Company appeals council rejection
The company trying to establish a football-field-sized sand quarry near a Sunshine Coast school may now have to fight 270 residents as well as the council.
Sunshine Coast draws line in sand to stop erosion at popular beach
Maroochydore's Beach's existing groyne wall made from geofabric fabric could be replaced with a new rock groyne wall to protect Cotton Tree campgrounds and Maroochydore beach from erosion.
Schools squeeze: Inner-city classrooms rushed out
The Queensland Government is hurriedly building 51 new classrooms in five inner-city suburbs where new apartments and units are also having a dramatic impact on school enrolments.
Council switches sprinklers on flying foxes to keep them away
The effort to permanently shift flying foxes has cost the Sunshine Coast Council almost $1 million a year but the council has since decided it is cheaper instead to use their sprinklers to keep flying foxes where they belong.
'Don't cut uni research to fund NDIS': UQ vice chancellor
It is a mistake to take research money from universities to fund gaps in the National Disabilities Insurance Scheme, the new chairman of Australia's high-profile Universities of Eight research body, Queenslander Professor Peter Hoj said this week.
Govt watchdog orders inquiry into Brisbane school wall collapse
Queensland's building watchdog has ordered an independent investigation into the collapsed eight-metre high brick wall during an $11 million rectification program at Villanova College at Coorparoo.
Mechs and monsters close down Brisbane CBD for Pacific Rim 2 shoot
Brisbane's CBD streets will be closed from 4am on Saturday as Pacific Rim 2: Maelstrom begins shooting in Eagle Street Pier.
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