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Schools
‘Country in the city’: Meet the Brisbane kids who go to a school with just 31 students
- by Felicity Caldwell
Perspective
Life in a tight spot not for all, but Brisbane homes might be heading that way
No longer backyard shoeboxes, granny flats could be mutually beneficial for struggling renters and homeowners.
Courtney Kruk
City Reporter
A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself
A proportionally representative Queensland upper house would protect future state governments from their worst instincts.
Cameron Atfield
Journalist
Meet the Allards, a family who take their kids on holiday during school
An education expert says she would not be surprised if COVID did not have a radical effect on parents’ willingness to just say “stuff it, pack your bags, we’re off”.
Felicity Caldwell
Journalist
Urban Affairs
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Property development
Life in a tight spot not for all, but Brisbane homes might be heading that way
No longer backyard shoeboxes, granny flats could be mutually beneficial for struggling renters and homeowners.
- by Courtney Kruk
Women say Mount Coot-tha attacks have taken a ‘city escape’ from them
More than 80 secret and visible CCTV cameras have been installed around Mount Coot-tha bushland trails to thwart future attacks targeting female walkers.
- by Tony Moore
Bus drivers live in Forest Lake, lawyers in New Farm. So what suburb do architects call home?
- by Craig Butt and Marissa Calligeros
City Life
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Food
Paddington’s NOTA to transform into a ‘Michelin’-inspired Italian fine-diner
- by Matt Shea
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Live music
‘Small, loud and a bit hot’: Brisbane venues where bands most love to play
- by Courtney Kruk
Crime & Courts
‘They believed God would raise her from the dead’
Elizabeth Struhs’ body was left on a mattress for 36 hours before authorities were called because a fringe religious group believed God would “raise her from the dead”, a court has heard.
- by Cloe Read
Race driver’s bankruptcy led to ‘medley’ of drug abuse
A former V8 Supercars driver has been released on a suspended sentence for drug possession after a more serious trafficking charge was dropped.
- by Rex Martinich
Politics
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Government
A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself
- by Cameron Atfield
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Department blunder adds to community frustration over East Brisbane school’s future
An incomplete statement that caused community celebration was quickly walked back after it was issued without five crucial words.
- by Courtney Kruk
A plane seat next to Kochie changed his life. Now he wants to win Paris Paralympics
If not for sport, and a chance meeting, gold medal hopeful Rheed McCracken would struggle to fathom where he would be today. But a decline in Australian sport has him worried.
- by Nick Wright
