Cameron Atfield is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times
Australia's competition watchdog will begin the public phase of its inquiry into the nation's electricity prices this week, with a forum to gain feedback from customers slugged with rising power costs to be held in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Car parking is set to become cheaper at Queensland hospitals, with the state government committing $7.5 million to provide additional free and discounted spaces at the state's public hospitals.
It is an artistic performance so subversive, some of those involved may not even know they are taking part.
Half-a-million more passengers passed through Brisbane Airport in 2016-17 than in the previous financial year, with almost all that growth occurring at the international terminal.
One Brisbane-based company's induction was 2 billion downloads in the making.
Sunshine Coast ratepayers will have to shell out an additional $15 a year as the city adopts a "rail or fail" plan that would emulate the Gold Coast's light rail.
The Crime and Corruption Commission has found Palaszczuk government minister Mark Bailey raised a "reasonable suspicion of corrupt conduct" in destroying work-related emails from his private account and could have committed an offence in doing so.
Muslim schoolchildren were targeted in an early morning attack in Brisbane's south on Wednesday, when a bag with a featuring a swastika and containing a severed pig's head was left at a school's front gate.
According to REIQ figures, 2300 new apartments came on to the Brisbane market in the first quarter of 2015. In the first quarter of 2017, that number had reduced to just 260.
More than two decades after his death, Eddie Mabo continues to have a profound impact for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and Australia as a whole.
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