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As it happened: Brisbane on Wednesday, July 17

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

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

Daly Cherry-Evans has the chance to join elite company on Wednesday night.

Perspective

NRL 2024

He’s on the brink of history, and a reality check will put DCE among the greats

by Nick Wright

Rugby league great Darren Lockyer says goodbye at Suncorp Stadium on July 6, 2011.

State of Origin

Queensland’s royal run in recent Suncorp Stadium deciders

by Scott Bailey

Perspective

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

He’s on the brink of history, and a reality check will put DCE among the greats

Will this be the swan song of Queensland’s captain? And if so, where will Daly Cherry-Evans stand among the Maroons and State of Origin greats?

Nick Wright

Sport reporter

Brisbane bus drivers’ dangerous habit makes me see red

While council bus drivers mostly do a fantastic job, something is clearly amiss in the city.

Cameron Atfield

Journalist

Urban Affairs

Queensland votes

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

Across the state, more than $10m was spent on this year’s council polls. Search how much was expended in your area.

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

While council bus drivers mostly do a fantastic job, something is clearly amiss in the city.

by Cameron Atfield

Sixty-year-old cobbler John Lucchi has been crossing the floors of Joe’s Shoe Repairs, the store his father once owned and operated, since he was a kid.

City life

Heart in sole: The tale of two cobblers on Eva Street

by Courtney Kruk

Independent report commissioned by Brisbane City Council recommends annual health checks for Brisbane City Council bus drivers aged over 60. The union says it is an over-reaction and calls for more investigation into time allowed for drivers to complete routes.

Public Transport

Timetable pressure, not older drivers, should be focus of bus review: union

by Tony Moore

Celebrations that East Brisbane State School had been saved were short-lived following a corrected statement from the state government.

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Department blunder adds to community frustration over East Brisbane school’s future

by Courtney Kruk

City Life

Perspective

Spending

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

by Courtney Kruk

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

Opera Queensland and Circa perform Dido and Aeneas dress rehearsal Playhouse Theatre QPAC

★★★★

Review

Sublime, erotic, dangerous: Dido and Aeneas is 80 minutes of baroque astonishment

by Nick Dent

City life

Heart in sole: The tale of two cobblers on Eva Street

by Courtney Kruk

Crime & Courts

Kerrie Struhs pictured with her then-infant daughter Elizabeth.

Crime

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

A woman accused of killing her eight-year-old daughter by withholding her insulin told a previous trial she followed “facts” in the Bible that God could cure diabetes or resurrect people.

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

A senior endocrinologist told court that Elizabeth Struhs was “the most seriously unwell child I have ever seen”.

by Rex Martinich

Crime

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

by Cloe Read and Allanah Sciberras

The body of Kierra-Lea Jensen was found at her Leichhardt home.

Updated

Crime

Dramatic arrest after woman’s body found in Ipswich home

by Courtney Kruk and Bailey Kenzie

Three missing children have been found after spending a night alone in a car.

Crime

Stabbed teen fighting for life after north Brisbane brawl

by Cameron Atfield

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.”