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BT Quiz

Which suburb has the most people complaining about aircraft noise? Take the Brisbane Times Quiz

by Nick Dent

How well do you know your neighbours in Brisbane?

Brisbane News Live

As it happened: Brisbane on Thursday, June 20

Circus Fun House is the first kids’ show under the big top at Pink Flamingo Brisbane.

City life

Things to do with kids over the winter school holidays in Brisbane

by Nick Dent

A woman was shot dead in South Mackay on Wednesday afternoon.

Crime

‘Incredibly brave’: Two girls raised the alarm on alleged Qld shooter

by Cloe Read

Perspective

Brisbane mum finds cold comfort in city’s bathhouse boom

In search of pain relief, Rhiannon Meredith has taken the plunge at one of the many bathhouses popping up across Brisbane.

Courtney Kruk

City Reporter

How Pauline Hanson kicked satire out the back door

The One Nation leader successfully fought against satire aimed at her in the 1990s. Now she’s vowing to fight for her right to satirise others.

Cameron Atfield

Journalist

If Labor and the LNP hope you forget (bits of) the past, what’s the future?

Queensland’s budget week has taught us at least one thing: the major parties want October’s election to be a contest of ideas. Here’s what’s on offer so far.

Matt Dennien

Reporter

Urban Affairs

The University of Queensland, Griffith University and the Queensland Conservation Council have released maps - based on national parks and World Heritage Area boundaries - which they say should be no-go zones for developers to protect endangered species.

Development

‘No-go areas’: How population growth is putting parts of SEQ in the red for developers

Sensitive areas in south-east Queensland that could be off-limits to developers have been identified under proposed planning changes.

by Tony Moore

Brisbane’s bayside suburb of Wellington Point had the most aircraft noise complaints (469) in 2023, but from the 10th highest number of complainants (33). Michael Wyatt and Ringo say aircraft noise is not a problem any more.

Brisbane Airport

This suburb has the most plane noise complaints – but these locals say that’s just hot air

A Senate inquiry has heard most aircraft noise complaints come from one Brisbane suburb. Some residents are not worried.

by Tony Moore

Many endangered species - including koalas, sugar gliders and birds - are found in the major green areas at Chermside and McDowall beside the original Trouts Road route.

Planning

Are cutbacks stopping Brisbane enjoying these slices of heaven?

by Tony Moore

Tunnel boring machines, like this one in England, would be used to dig twin, two-lane motorways under Brisbane’s northern suburbs.

Traffic

Document reveals Brisbane toll tunnel could cost $10 billion to build

by Sean Parnell

Some Brisbane home owners are facing rates increases above 7 per cent this year.

Brisbane budget

Richard is unhappy his rates are rising. How does your suburb fare?

by Felicity Caldwell and Tony Moore

City Life

City life

Things to do with kids over the winter school holidays in Brisbane

by Nick Dent

The end-of-trip facilities at 400 George Street, Brisbane, known as Refresh at 400. Pictures: Scott Burrows/ nettletontribe

Perspective

City life

How a towel and good lighting will help bring Brisbane workers back to the CBD

by Felicity Caldwell

A burgeoning culinary scene, fun bars, nice weather and easy connectivity. Is this how Brisbane won over corporates?

Perspective

City life

Brisbane emerges as a ‘bleisure’ hotspot, as visitors mix business with pleasure

by Courtney Kruk

Zoe de Plevitz (Jess) and Dan Daw (John) rehearse Cost of Living at Queensland Theatre. The script specifies that John be played by a disabled actor.

Performing arts

Pulitzer-winning play breaks down barriers with Australian debut

by Nick Dent

Labor also wants to extend the success of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which has achieved a big boost in female senior managers by using a "blind" hiring system.

Queensland budget

Public servants could be moved out of CBD, urged to WFH to cut costs

by Sean Parnell

Michael Rodrigues will be tasked with rebuilding Sydney’s nightlife as the state’s 24-Hour Economy Commissioner.

Planning

Who will be Queensland’s ‘night mayor’ and what will their job entail? This man has an idea

by Nick Dent

Crime & Courts

The body of a woman was found in Rose Bay.

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Crime

Man charged with murder after shooting of woman

Police found the woman dead and a man injured when they attended a shooting in South Mackay late on Wednesday.

by Louise Harris

Updated

Crime

‘He’s got a knife’: Multiple people, including baby, at home where police shot man

In CCTV footage from a neighbour’s property, police can be heard yelling, “police, drop the knife, drop the knife”.

by Cloe Read

Courts

Gold Coast teenager charged after female students ranked online

by Sean Parnell and Cloe Read

Deputy Premier Cameron Dick at the scene of the house fire in his electorate.

Tragedy

The murder tragedy that struck fatal house fire victims decades earlier

by Marissa Calligeros

Two men were rescued from a capsized yacht off the coast of Bundaberg on Sunday.

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Emergency services

One dead, father and son rescued after yacht capsizes off Queensland coast

by Cameron Atfield

Politics

Chilli Beach at Iron Range National Park, on Cape York Peninsula.

Indigenous justice

Cape York areas make World Heritage tentative list

by Laine Clark

Queensland LNP leader David Crisafulli (left) and Queensland-based federal Coalition leader Peter Dutton.

Analysis

Queensland votes

Dutton’s vision brings nuclear issue to Crisafulli’s doorstep

by Matt Dennien

The state-owned Tarong Power Station, near Kingaroy, has been suggested as the proposed nuclear power station site.

Updated

Government

Dutton pitches two Queensland nuclear power sites – and power to take them

by Matt Dennien

Liberal National Party leader David Crisafulli, left, and Labor premier Steven Miles.

Perspective

Queensland votes

If Labor and the LNP hope you forget (bits of) the past, what’s the future?

by Matt Dennien

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Taylor Swift performing at the MCG in February.

Live music

Brisbane was poised to host multiple Taylor Swift Eras shows. Then there was trouble in Japan

Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour was booked to come to Brisbane this year, but it was Tokyo – not the lack of a venue – that caused the star to give Queensland a miss.

by Cameron Atfield

Mariafe Artacho del Solar will compete in a third Olympics in Paris, but likely won’t get a chance at a world title on home soil next year.

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Beach volleyball

Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’

Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers, but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.