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Perspective

In defence of jet-setting politicians doing their job

Ask most Queensland MPs if they’d rather be home with their family or schmoozing abroad and nine times out of 10, you can bet the family would win.

Cameron Atfield
Cameron Atfield

Journalist

A Labor leader agreeing with Peter Dutton? It is election season

The Queensland-based federal opposition leader and Premier Steven Miles, maybe more by design than accident, landed on the same side of migration talk this week.

Matt Dennien
Matt Dennien

Reporter

Galleries, museums, chauffeurs for taxpayer-funded $126k ministerial trip

Documents obtained under right to information laws reveal Leeanne Enoch’s business-class journey across North America.

Josh Bavas
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Urban Affairs

Brisbane has been ranked 27th out of 1000 cities on a new index.
City life

House prices, internet speeds drag Brisbane down global rankings

But a new city index says Brisbane “excels” on life expectancy and rates highly for economics, quality of life and human capital.

  • by Sean Parnell
Valley residents Carol Calichet and Kelly Howard say a 16-story apartment proposal snubs Brisbane City Council’ town planning guidelines.
Planning

Residents say 16-storey tower bid breaches faith with Valley plan

A controversial development proposal has been taken to City Hall, where residents told Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner to honour height limits in Fortitude Valley.

  • by Tony Moore
Travel is an occupational hazard for politicians, not a perk.
Perspective
Government

In defence of jet-setting politicians doing their job

  • by Cameron Atfield
The federal government has added $432 million to share the $864 million in cost-overuns for the stage one ofn the second M1, the Coomera Connection Road between Coomera and Nerang. Pictured is labor senator Murray Watt, local MP and housing minister Meaghan Scanlon, state treasurer Cameron Dick and federal treasurer Jim Chalmers.
Planning

Feds and Qld share $864 million cost overrun for second M1 project

  • by Tony Moore
SunJan6WestinBris The Westin Brisbane is the second five-star hotel to open in Brisbane in six months after a 20 year hiatus in the city and is Queensland’s first Westin property It offers resort style facilities with a health and wellness philosophy All rooms offer views out over Brisbane’s CBD skyline
Planning

Queensland needs ‘thousands more hotel rooms’ before 2032 Games

  • by Tony Moore

City Life

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Crime & Courts

Mr Harris was from Beenleigh in Logan and was with friends when the confrontation took place between two groups who knew each other.
Courts

Brothers jailed over ‘cowardly’ stabbing death

One of the pair was sentenced to life in prison over the death of a 27-year-old father in the heart of Surfers Paradise.

  • by Fraser Barton
Ian Seeley, the stepson of main suspect Raymond Peter Mulvihill, leaving the coroner’s court in 2021.
Queensland courts

‘A motive to lie for podcast’: Coroner doubts man’s evidence in Sharron Phillips case

The man who accused his father of murdering Sharron Phillips, who vanished in May 1986, had a commercial motive to lie, the state’s coroner has found.

  • by Rex Martinich
A man is fighting for his life while another is in custody after an alleged stabbing near a Brisbane school.
Crime

Teen faces attempted murder charge over fight, stabbing

  • by Savannah Meacham and Alex Mitchell
Queensland rugby legend Toutai Kefu wipes away his tears as he addresses media outside his home after a violent break-in.
Courts

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

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

Wallabies star’s wife plagued by home invasion memories

  • by Cheryl Goodenough

Politics

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

“They have listened,” Schrinner said of Miles and Deputy Premier Cameron Dick at a media conference with the latter on Friday morning.
Brisbane 2032 Olympics

‘They’ve listened’: State shift brings Schrinner back to Games group fold

The Brisbane Lord Mayor has walked back his decision of barely five months ago to abandon the 2032 Games leaders’ forum – despite outstanding differences of opinion.

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

Sunshine Coast rail link to get $1.15 billion budget boost

  • by Cameron Atfield
Brisbane 2032 First Nations interns Charlee McKinnon, Luke Woods and Isabelle Eurell on their first day at work this week.
Brisbane 2032 Olympics

The young Queenslanders tasked with selling Brisbane to the world

  • by Cameron Atfield
An artist’s impression of the master plan vision.
Brisbane development

South Bank’s new 30-year vision revealed – with one eye on 2032

  • by Matt Dennien

Transport

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