With election results finalised,Brisbane City Hall hosted its first gathering of new and old councillors. Except it was a false start.
High-profile Brisbane businesswoman Sarina Russo has been given planning permission to build a unit block at twice the allowable height in Brisbane’s inner south.
Even more electric scooters will soon be on Brisbane streets,as the city’s original scooter hire scheme prepares its return to the city.
Billions tune in to watch the Tour de France,but Brisbane has a trashier version – and cyclists here will get a front-row view while inner-city roads are closed to cars.
Three weeks on from the statewide vote,new faces are being sworn in and more than one-third of local government roles in the south-east have changed hands.
State Development Minister Grace Grace will examine a proposal the Brisbane Metro be extended to service the Games athletics stadium and surrounding areas.
A company wanting to build a 1001-unit complex in Newstead has to argue for height exemptions and explain whether it will obscure the city views from Hamilton.
The Brisbane pub’s owners say an 18-storey apartment block being considered for a neighbouring site could put the historic watering hole’s future at risk.
There was not a lot of good news for Labor after Saturday’s polls,with major swings to the LNP in two byelections and to the Greens in several Brisbane council wards.
By Monday night,Premier Steven Miles will have lost a seat in parliament,seen another become vulnerable,and been left to decide whether Brisbane can even afford an Olympic stadium.
While the election dust settles on a re-elected LNP administration,the century-old two-party system in Brisbane’s City Hall has firmly been turned on its head.