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The latest news in and around Brisbane.
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
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Crime
‘If someone wakes, you stab them’: Teens jailed over violent home invasion of Wallabies star
A judge said photos of Toutai Kefu’s home “frankly looks like a war zone”, with blood smeared throughout.
- by Cloe Read
‘You killed our family’: Outbursts from bus victim’s loved ones as driver appears in court
Tia Cameron’s family and friends filled the small courtroom and were forced to stand, with some swearing and insulting the 70-year-old defendant.
- by Cloe Read
Politics
Perspective
Queensland votes
Queensland voters will be first to push the button on LNP’s nuclear pitch
- by Matt Dennien
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Olympic sports funding package worth weight in gold – and almost half a billion
Australia’s Olympic sports and athletes have received a record-breaking financial boost less than a month out from the Games getting under way in Paris.
- by Chris Barrett
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
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
