People would be 'mugs' to buy scalped tickets: Beattie
Tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games that are illegally resold will be nothing more than "hot air", organisers have warned.
Tony Moore is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times
Tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games that are illegally resold will be nothing more than "hot air", organisers have warned.
Poor sales for concerts and inclement weather in Wagga Wagga created a perfect storm for Southern Stars Touring Company Pty Ltd, with debts in the hundreds of thousands.
The bridge, 4.5 metres wide and with an observation patform, will run from the fourth floor of the casino and hotel complex diagonally across the Brisbane River to join South Bank.
Two councillors have now put their hands up to replace Paul Pisasale, who resigned several weeks before he was charged with extortion.
The president of the Unit Owners Association of Queensland said its members had also raised concerns there were problems with inadequate fire systems in some Queensland apartment buildings.
The last of South Bank's riverside land will be opened up as green space in an expansion announced on the precinct's 25th birthday.
Some of them look like Daleks, others are bold and bronze, while others take you back to the comic frivolity of Monty Python.
State government bureaucratic red tape is strangling future tourism growth on the Brisbane River, the city's lord mayor said after handing down his budget on Wednesday.
Ratepayers want the city's infrastructure program to keep pace with population growth, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said at his 2017 budget launch.
Motorists will pay 3.5 per cent more per year for their car registrations for two years, before increases would be linked to the rate of inflation, Tuesday's state budget confirmed.
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