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The two key fixes for renters not included in Qld’s fresh reform round
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.
- by Matt Dennien
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A path or two and a kangaroo: New plan to keep the CBD moving
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.
- by Tony Moore
From COVID to cops? Fate of abandoned quarantine site ‘sad and absurd’
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.
- by Courtney Kruk
Why a reluctance to disclose is hurting Queensland’s diversity targets
Queensland has failed to reach this ambitious target, but advocates say there are myriad reasons that public servants might not disclose.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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We all lose under Queensland’s winner-takes-all political games
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.
- by Matt Dennien
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Steve Gollschewski named as Queensland’s new police commissioner
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.
- by Matt Dennien
Troubled forensic lab’s DNA backlog blows out to 41,000
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.
- by Fraser Barton
Govt has ‘eroded’ Brisbane’s 11-year Olympic runway: Paris ’24 and LA ’28 consultant
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.
- by Cameron Atfield
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Star has weeks to prove progress on planned Qld fixes. But you can’t see them
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.
- by Matt Dennien
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The big questions being raised around Queensland’s ‘Big Build’
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.
- by Matt Dennien
Parliamentary committee accepts framework to decriminalise sex work in Qld
Twenty-five years after prostitution was legalised in Queensland, the industry will be decriminalised to improve the lives of sex workers.
- by Courtney Kruk