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The latest news in and around Brisbane.
Perspective
City life
Ranking cities risks papering over their cracks (even if it’s Brisbane’s turn to brag)
- by Cameron Atfield
Perspective
Ranking cities risks papering over their cracks (even if it’s Brisbane’s turn to brag)
City rankings can be good for bragging rights, but it’s not always helpful to look at your neighbours to assess how you’re going at home.
Cameron Atfield
Journalist
The jury reaches verdicts, plural. Gregory Lynn is a murderer, singular
Four years of investigation into a ghastly mystery, five weeks of trial and almost seven days of jury deliberations brought us to an ear-popping climax.
Tony Wright
Associate editor and special writer
Is Queensland’s west off the table? It shouldn’t be
It’s a region with a rich rugby league history, so why has Queensland’s west seemingly fallen down the NRL expansion pecking order?
Nick Wright
Sport reporter
Urban Affairs
CFMEU plans new theatre and events centre, ahead of new unit development
One of Queensland’s most controversial unions is planning to build a new theatre and conference centre at Bowen Hills, complete with a rooftop bar.
- by Cameron Atfield
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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
City Life
Perspective
City life
Ranking cities risks papering over their cracks (even if it’s Brisbane’s turn to brag)
- by Cameron Atfield
Crime & Courts
Council bus driver in CBD crash appears in court
Tia Cameron, 18, had just minutes earlier left a salon appointment and was standing on the footpath when she was hit by the bus.
- by Cloe Read
Man appeared to be escaping before fatal fall: police
Police have told an inquest Mario Giovanni Merlo appeared to be attempting to escape the apartment balcony “like it was a foot off the ground” before falling without a sound.
- by Fraser Barton
Politics
Perspective
Queensland votes
Queensland voters will be first to push the button on LNP’s nuclear pitch
- by Matt Dennien
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
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Aviation
Lost guns, damaged planes: Qantas’ slew of complaints to ground handler revealed
- by Amelia McGuire
