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King George Square-off: Both sides share blame for city’s summer hellscape
Both Labor and the LNP left us with the King George Square mess. It’s time to end the blame game and fix it.
- by Cameron Atfield
Latest
Job cuts send ‘alarm bells ringing’ in Brisbane council
Hundreds of council workers, including casual bus drivers and library staff, are concerned their jobs are at risk after BCC last week announced a 10 per cent spending cut.
- by Tony Moore
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Brisbane Metro
Journey on BERT: How a metro in name only risks embarrassing Brisbane on the world stage
Forget the “metro”. There are many good reasons to jump on the BERT train. Or, more accurately, the BERT bus.
- by Cameron Atfield
‘They should have known’: Brisbane council under fire over cost blowouts
Opposition parties say with construction costs soaring, the council should have framed its July budget better to preclude the need for spending cuts.
- by Tony Moore
Pavlou fined over ‘smart alec response to a reasonable request’
Brisbane activist Drew Pavlou was fined after placards he set up in the CBD were judged to be illegal advertising.
- by Rex Martinich
Brisbane greets the man who turns apartments into ‘friendship machines’
Canadian writer and urbanist Charles Montgomery is bringing his blend of town planning and psychology as the city begins to reshape.
- by Tony Moore
A decade after demolition, new tower planned for Regent site
More than 10 years after Brisbane’s historic Regent Theatre was all but demolished, new plans for an office tower have been submitted for approval.
- by Cameron Atfield
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Adrian Schrinner
The battle for Brisbane is taking on a new hue
In less than six months, Queenslanders will go to the polls to elect their council representatives, but this time – in Brisbane at least – it feels very different.
- by Cameron Atfield
Perspective
E-Scooters
2024 Olympic city Paris has banned e-scooters. Brisbane should not be next
Brisbane was a leader when it came to the e-scooter boom five years ago. It should not follow Paris in banning them.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Office tower planned for landmark Wynnum Road site
The Cannon Hill tower on the former CSIRO site will first have to clear a planning hurdle as it is two storeys above the height limit.
- by Cameron Atfield
Greens plan to hike Airbnb rates 1000 per cent ‘to scare away investors’
People who advertised their home on tourist websites such as Airbnb would be slugged more than $10,000 a year in a plan designed to tackle the housing crisis.
- by Felicity Caldwell