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Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Bridge construction site will be lit up in Maroon for the State of Origin decider on Wednesday night.

Brisbane News Live

As it happened: Brisbane on Friday, July 19

Here’s what’s making news in and around Brisbane today.

An animated series featuring Peggy and Molly, the Gold Coast staffy and magpie, is in the works.

Wildlife

Government’s ‘please explain’ to Gold Coast magpie couple over animated series

by Cameron Atfield

The fact that only 58 per cent of polled Queenslanders know who David Crisafulli is presents him with opportunities ahead of the next election.

Building Bad

‘Queenslanders aren’t fools’: Crisafulli says CFMEU a bigger problem

by Tony Moore

Moorooka’s Chris Pickles is one of 181 residents delighted Brisbane City Council has changed its mind about adding tougher heritage protections which prevented extensions and interior changes.

Planning

Residents win the right to renovate their WWII-era homes

by Tony Moore

Poppy seeds are illegal in some countries.

BT Quiz

Which country has banned poppy-seed bagels? Take the Brisbane Times Quiz

by Nick Dent

Perspective

‘My beautiful boy’: The diary of a heart broken at Fromelles

Frontline nurse Alice Ross-King’s World War I diaries tell of a great love - and a dreadful tragedy.

Tony Wright

Associate editor and special writer

Has Origin revealed a glaring issue in the NRL expansion debate?

Queensland cannot rely on generational talents to keep popping up as they have in years gone by.

Nick Wright

Sport reporter

Menu prices tough to swallow, but how much are customers willing to cough up?

Inflation has been falling, but that doesn’t mean prices are coming down – and Brisbane venue owners say they’re working harder than ever.

Courtney Kruk

City Reporter

Urban Affairs

Building Bad

‘Queenslanders aren’t fools’: Crisafulli says CFMEU a bigger problem

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has questioned Labor’s claim there is no evidence to support tougher action being taken against the CFMEU in Queensland.

by Tony Moore

Planning

Residents win the right to renovate their WWII-era homes

The Brisbane City Council has changed its mind over proposed stringent heritage protections at Moorooka.

by Tony Moore

More than $10 million was spent in the year’s Queensland council elections.

Queensland votes

$4.35m splurged on Brisbane council election for very little change

by Cameron Atfield

Brisbane City Council buses run red lights with alarming regularity in the CBD.

Perspective

Public Transport

Brisbane bus drivers’ dangerous habit makes me see red

by Cameron Atfield

PsiQuantum’s Aussie founders professor Jeremy O’Brien and Terry Rudolph say their plans are ‘bigger than the government of the day.’

Planning

Think big: Computer the size of Suncorp Stadium to take shape near airport

by Tony Moore

City Life

Brisbane News Live

As it happened: Brisbane on Friday, July 19

The Alliance in Spring Hill has been given a new lease on life by one of Brisbane’s best bar groups.

Food

Brisbane’s most exciting bar openings of 2024 (so far)

by Matt Shea

Even as prices rise, new venues – like Guy Grossi’s Settimo – are still opening around the city.

Perspective

Spending

Menu prices tough to swallow, but how much are customers willing to cough up?

by Courtney Kruk

Teck’s Freshly Picked vegetables is one of the stallholders at Rivermakers Farmers and Artisan Markets.

City life

Permanent Sunday market to open by the river in Morningside

by Nick Dent

Drew Barrymore, who is appearing at a Wanderlust True North show in Brisbane in August.

City life

‘Let’s just take off the armour’: Why Drew Barrymore is excited to be heading to Brisbane

by Clare Todhunter

Exclusive

Food

An 1888-built icon finally reopens as a multi-level food and beverage precinct

by Matt Shea

Crime & Courts

Jason Struhs is on trial for the murder of Elizabeth Struhs, 8, in 2022.

Crime

Murder accused ‘embraced’ view to stop girl’s medicine

The accused allegedly embraced the belief he should stop his daughter’s diabetes medication in favour of God’s healing.

by Rex Martinich

Ken Hembrow, 37, died on January 11, 2024, when he was hit by a car on Queen Street in Brisbane’s CBD.

Crime

Driver who killed Brisbane motorcyclist told police ‘riders make s--- up’: court

Father Ken Hembrow, 37, was riding his motorbike along Queen Street in January when he was hit by a car outside the Marriott hotel.

by Cloe Read

Kerrie Struhs pictured with her then-infant daughter Elizabeth.

Crime

Mother on trial over girl’s death acted on Bible ‘facts’

by Rex Martinich

The court heard that Elizabeth was flown by helicopter to the hospital in Brisbane in July 2019.

Courts

Girl ‘nearly died’ of neglect before alleged murder

by Rex Martinich

Crime

Teen suspects on the run as Valley stabbing leaves girl fighting for life

by Cloe Read and Allanah Sciberras

Politics

CFMEU state secretary Michael Ravbar organised protests against senior Labor MPs in Queensland over the industrial manslaughter laws.

Building Bad

Queensland union boss lashes out at Labor governments over CFMEU probe

by Tony Moore

Queensland votes

$4.35m splurged on Brisbane council election for very little change

by Cameron Atfield

Queensland’s ‘red chamber’, where the Legislative Council upper house used to sit.

Perspective

Government

A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself

by Cameron Atfield

Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli speaks at the LNP state convention.

Crime

LNP vows ‘adult crime, adult time’ for young offenders

by William Ton and Holly Hales

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Paris kept to its Olympic vision, but changed its plans, organisers say.

Exclusive

Paris 2024

Paris has a message for people worried about Brisbane 2032: Don’t be

Paris 2024 chief executive Etienne Thobois says Brisbane should settle on a clear vision for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympics. “And then, you know, get moving.”