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Brisbane News Live: SEQ mayors demand new state deal; Brisbane tunnel plans stay secret
The latest news in and around Brisbane.
Perspective
Night-time economy
Small Brisbane venues are struggling. Is it time for a rescue mission?
- by Courtney Kruk
Perspective
Small Brisbane venues are struggling. Is it time for a rescue mission?
Less than a week after discovering my new favourite bar, I was surprised to read its desperate plea for help. “Basically, it was do or die.”
Courtney Kruk
City Reporter
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
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
Reporter
Urban Affairs
SEQ mayors unite to demand new state deal to pay for population growth
Premier Steven Miles wants migration cut to help his government respond to growth pressures. South-east mayors want more infrastructure funding.
- by Tony Moore
Labor refuses to release new Brisbane tunnel plan
Details of the underground tollway from Kedron to Carseldine remain shrouded in secrecy, despite LNP support in both parliament and City Hall.
- by Sean Parnell
City Life
Perspective
Night-time economy
Small Brisbane venues are struggling. Is it time for a rescue mission?
- by Courtney Kruk
Crime & 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
‘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
Politics
Updated
Government
‘Cross your legs’: MPs put on notice amid heated Queensland question time
- by Matt Dennien
Exclusive
Queensland votes
Crisafulli’s LNP climbs higher against Miles’ Labor leadership
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
Queensland votes
A Labor leader agreeing with Peter Dutton? It is election season
- by Matt Dennien
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
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
Transport
Perspective
Federal budget
Billions of dollars to bolster SEQ, but migration and Olympics loom large
- by Sean Parnell