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Amora Hotel in Brisbane CBD unveiled its $30 million refurbishment in December 2023.
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Hotels

Did Brisbane need this five-star hotel?

The manager says a hotel at this level of luxury not only attracts new ventures to a precinct, but encourages neighbours to step up. Can it do for Spring Hill what The Calile did in the Valley?

  • by Courtney Kruk

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Did Brisbane need this five-star hotel?

The manager says a hotel at this level of luxury not only attracts new ventures to a precinct, but encourages neighbours to step up. Can it do for Spring Hill what The Calile did in the Valley?

Courtney Kruk
Courtney Kruk

City Reporter

Billions of dollars to bolster SEQ, but migration and Olympics loom large

The Albanese government underestimated how many Australians would move to Qld and will now face criticism that it has short-changed the state.

Those boots ain’t made for skolling

The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey, but that’s no source of national pride.

Cameron Atfield
Cameron Atfield

Journalist

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Crime & Courts

Queensland rugby legend Toutai Kefu wipes away his tears as he addresses media outside his home after a violent break-in.

‘Wicked weapon’ used in rugby star’s home invasion

Instead of fleeing the home they broke into, two boys slashed at a Wallabies star before cutting his wife to the bone with a sickle, a court has heard.

  • by Cheryl Goodenough
Toutai Kefu and his wife Rachel at their Brisbane home in October 2021.

Wallabies star’s wife plagued by home invasion memories

Rachel Kefu is plagued by vivid images of her Wallabies star husband and her son bleeding after teenagers armed with a cane-cutting sickle broke into their home.

  • by Cheryl Goodenough

Politics

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Queensland is the most popular state for interstate migrants, but there are questions over the infrastructure and housing needed to support them.
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Federal budget

Billions of dollars to bolster SEQ, but migration and Olympics loom large

The Albanese government underestimated how many Australians would move to Qld and will now face criticism that it has short-changed the state.

  • by Sean Parnell
An artist’s impression of one of the stations along the Direct Sunshine Coast Rail Line.

Sunshine Coast rail link to get $1.15 billion budget boost

The extra funding, to be announced in Tuesday’s budget, will take the federal contribution to $2.75 billion – just a fraction of the $12 billion to complete the planned line.

  • by Cameron Atfield

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