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Brisbane News Live: Warning on bus-system breakdown during 50c trial; fears over patient confidentiality in Qld courts
The latest news in and around Brisbane.
Perspective
What Brisbane can learn from the city’s happiest commuters
Brisbane needs 50¢ public transport fares to work, and we can learn something from CityCat commuters to set the trial up for success.
Felicity Caldwell
Journalist
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
Urban Affairs
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City council
Brisbane council warns of bus-system breakdown during 50-cent fare trial
In response, the government says it will negotiate more bus funding, amid fears the lower fares “will bring the whole house of cards tumbling down”.
- by Cloe Read
‘Enormous potential’: Plan to bring life to the forgotten end of South Bank
High-level talks have begun to map out the future of a stretch of Brisbane riverfront that predates Expo 88. What does that mean for its major tenant?
- by Tony Moore
City Life
Perspective
City life
How a towel and good lighting will help bring Brisbane workers back to the CBD
- by Felicity Caldwell
Perspective
City life
Brisbane emerges as a ‘bleisure’ hotspot, as visitors mix business with pleasure
- by Courtney Kruk
Crime & Courts
Psychiatrists fear patient confidentiality is being undermined in Qld courts
There is increasing concern that court access to health files may be used to cast doubt on the credibility of rape and sexual assault survivors.
- by Cloe Read
Keely escaped as her mates were gunned down. A court will hear her triple-0 call
An inquest is set to examine how Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold, and neighbour Alan Dare were fatally shot by Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train in 2022.
- by Cloe Read
Politics
Perspective
Public Transport
What Brisbane can learn from the city’s happiest commuters
- by Felicity Caldwell
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Palaszczuk opens up on her enduring belief in Gabba rebuild
The former premier has given her first sit-down television interview since leaving politics. Here are the key takeaways – some of which didn’t make it to air.
- by Matt Dennien
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
Transport
Perspective
Public Transport
What Brisbane can learn from the city’s happiest commuters
- by Felicity Caldwell
Exclusive
Aviation
Lost guns, damaged planes: Qantas’ slew of complaints to ground handler revealed
- by Amelia McGuire
