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The unexpected ways car sharing could revolutionise Brisbane

Browse the comments section on any infrastructure or transport story and you’ll quickly get a sense that if you come for cars, the people of Brisbane will come for you.

Courtney Kruk
Courtney Kruk

City Reporter

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi! Oi! Oh boy… make it stop

Australian sport fans have the opportunity to come up with something more inspiring than ‘Oi! Oi! Oi!’ before Brisbane 2032.

Cameron Atfield
Cameron Atfield

Journalist

This girls’ school is Brisbane’s best, according to epic ATAR data project

An Anglican girls’ school in Brisbane’s western suburbs achieved the city’s best year 12 results last year. But bringing you this analysis was no small feat.

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Urban Affairs

The Electoral Commission of Queensland was caught out by long queues and a shortage of staff and ballot papers at many booths.

‘Chaotic, stressful’: Shocking Queensland council election fails revealed

An unexpected crunch on March 16 forced voters to queue for up to three hours, while ballot paper shortages meant some didn’t vote at all, a new report reveals.

  • by Felicity Caldwell
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has unveiled concept designs for two green bridges that would run from Toowong to West End and St Lucia to West End. Works are expected to start in 2024, subject to approval. 

Council seeks federal funds for new bridge from West End to Toowong

Brisbane City Council cannot afford to build the pedestrian and cycle bridge on its own, and is examining several avenues to raise funds.

  • by Tony Moore

Crime & Courts

Police allege Kiesha Thompson, 23, was the victim of a domestic violence murder.
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Crime

Police to accuse ex-partner of helping plan alleged attack on daycare mum

Police say the young mother struck by a vehicle after dropping a child at the centre had been in a relationship months earlier with a man now charged over her death.

  • by Cloe Read
Police allege Kiesha Thompson, 23, was the victim of a domestic violence murder.
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Crime

‘No accident’: Daycare hit-run deemed a domestic violence murder

The family of a woman allegedly targeted in a fatal hit-run claim her attacker was waiting for her to finish a daycare drop-off.

  • by Laine Clark

Politics

Brisbane 2032 Olympics

Harry Garside, Caitlin Parker and Teremoana Teremoana.

Dropping Olympic boxing would be ‘a crime against humanity’

The future of boxing as an Olympic sport beyond Paris is still in doubt – a prospect that Australian boxers and medal hopes Harry Garside, Caitlin Parker and Teremoana Teremoana say they find “honestly terrifying”.

  • by Konrad Marshall
An artist’s impression of the proposed athletes’ village for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games.

Games village no longer earmarked for social housing

The keys to a major Brisbane 2032 athletes’ village won’t be handed to the homeless before the Games after a Queensland government back-step.

  • by Savannah Meacham

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