As housing prices march on and a state election looms,Labor is working through long-promised help for renters labelled both a “war” on landlords and not enough.
An isolated traffic island in one of Brisbane’s busiest intersections will be redesigned,and a street closed off,to help people take public transport.
Brisbane’s lord mayor is among those slamming the decision to convert the $400 million Pinkenba quarantine facility into an AFP training hub,rather than using it to shelter the homeless.
Queensland has failed to reach this ambitious target,but advocates say there are myriad reasons that public servants might not disclose.
Practice makes perfect,as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration,as the youth justice blow-up shows.
The police veteran of 44 years has been appointed to the top job after a two-month search to fill the early departure of his predecessor,Katarina Carroll.
The backlog of cases at a forensic DNA lab has increased to more than 41,000 as Queensland’s opposition calls for a strategy to address the beleaguered service.
There’s time to get the Games right,he says,but Brisbane’s advantage from an 11-year lead-up has been affected by the lack of an independent delivery authority.
The casino giant stares down licence suspensions in Queensland amid a second grilling in NSW,tied to tightly held reforms partially obtained by Brisbane Times.
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country,a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
Twenty-five years after prostitution was legalised in Queensland,the industry will be decriminalised to improve the lives of sex workers.