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Perspective
Queen’s Wharf a glitter strip of walkways, art and public spaces
With just one week until Queen’s Wharf starts to open, it’s the free public spaces and walking trails that have me most excited.
Courtney Kruk
City Reporter
Everything old is new again, as stadium proposal shows
The Northshore proposal borrows heavily from a 26-year-old plan for the same site. But at this stage, all stadium options need to be explored.
Cameron Atfield
Journalist
Old enemies unite: The Australians finding the bodies of Vietnam’s lost soldiers
In 1968, John Bryant fought in the brutal Battle of Coral-Balmoral. Fifty-six years later, his memories are helping to unearth bodies of fallen Vietnamese soldiers.
Tony Wright
Associate editor and special writer
Urban Affairs
Brisbane to go more than three days without a casino as Treasury closes
With the incumbent Treasury Casino closing on Sunday, ahead of The Star opening at Queen’s Wharf, locals will have to wait to cash in their chips.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Brisbane readers’ favourite books revealed
Every day, more than 27,000 resources are borrowed from Brisbane libraries. But which local author is our favourite?
- by Rosanna Ryan
Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Everything old is new again, as stadium proposal shows
- by Cameron Atfield
City Life
Brisbane to go more than three days without a casino as Treasury closes
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
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Vale
Chained to a Brisbane bar, Merle made her mark. Now a statue is promised
- by William Davis and Matt Dennien
Perspective
Queen's Wharf
Queen’s Wharf a glitter strip of walkways, art and public spaces
- by Courtney Kruk
Crime & Courts
‘Great pain’ not enough to require help for dying girl
A woman accused of killing eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs by withholding her medication would not have called an ambulance even if the girl was in obvious pain, a judge has heard.
- by Rex Martinich
Findings into death of four kids and mum a ‘waste of time’, says grandfather
The father of a man whose children died in a car driven by their mother has slammed a coroner’s findings into the tragedy.
- by Savannah Meacham
Politics
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Government
Leavers to leave long-term police union perch for new Qld-NSW border gig
- by Matt Dennien
New Gabba upgrade plans might not be made public before election
- by Matt Dennien and William Davis
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Everything old is new again, as stadium proposal shows
The Northshore proposal borrows heavily from a 26-year-old plan for the same site. But at this stage, all stadium options need to be explored.
- by Cameron Atfield
New Gabba upgrade plans might not be made public before election
As concerns bubble about the stadium’s lifespan, Premier Steven Miles has painted Brisbane’s looming loss of Test cricket as a known and needed possibility.
- by Matt Dennien and William Davis
Transport
Health
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Queensland Health
‘Quite appalling’: State failed nurse whose daughter died in hospital
- by Sean Parnell