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An exclusive pasta club is returning to Brisbane – for one day only
Tickets are on on sale now for this colourful DJ-driven lunch, but you’d best be quick.
- by Matt Shea
Perspective
‘I found I was more comfortable in the forest’: The scientist who took on the logging industry
Professor David Lindenmeyer looked neater than you’d expect from man who has spent years in Australia’s oldest forests, locked in political battles with the industries that depend on cutting them down.
Nick O'Malley
Environment and Climate Editor
The big questions being raised around Queensland’s ‘Big Build’
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country, a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
Matt Dennien
Reporter
Fifty years ago, I went to Australia’s Woodstock. On Saturday, I went back
In the 1970s, the Sunbury festival celebrated rock music and youthful indulgence. On the weekend, the crowd returned. This time their clothes stayed on.
Tony Wright
Associate editor and special writer
Urban Affairs
‘Inexcusable mistake’ forces redo of first Brisbane council meeting
With election results finalised, Brisbane City Hall hosted its first gathering of new and old councillors. Except it was a false start.
- by Matt Dennien
Sarina Russo wins right to build unit block twice the allowed height
High-profile Brisbane businesswoman Sarina Russo has been given planning permission to build a unit block at twice the allowable height in Brisbane’s inner south.
- by Cameron Atfield
Perspective
Rubbish
A love letter to Brisbane’s Tour de Trash aka kerbside collection
- by Felicity Caldwell
City Life
Perspective
Housing affordability
Could this affordable housing model work in Brisbane?
- by Courtney Kruk
Crime & Courts
Gold Coast police searched Bondi Junction killer for knives in December
The Queensland man who fatally stabbed six people at a shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi Junction was itinerant and living out of his car with history of mental illness, police say.
- by Tony Moore
Man shot by police after alleged stabbing murder in Queensland
An alleged homicide and subsequent police shooting are under investigation in Queensland.
Politics
Exclusive
Queensland Police
How police leadership responded to union boss’s inflammatory article
- by Matt Dennien
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
John Coates has change of heart, agrees to inquiry appearance
Australian Olympic supremo John Coates has been listed to appear before a Senate inquiry into Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Games preparations, after previously declining an offer to provide evidence at Wednesday’s hearing.
- by Cameron Atfield
Perspective
Government
The big questions being raised around Queensland’s ‘Big Build’
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country, a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Olympic powerbroker needs to front Senate inquiry
- by Cameron Atfield
Exclusive
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Olympics supremo John Coates refuses to appear at Brisbane 2032 Senate inquiry
- by Cameron Atfield
Transport
Health
Perspective
Flu season
COVID never killed the ‘soldier on’ mentality, especially when you can work from home
- by Felicity Caldwell