As it happened: Brisbane on Tuesday, April 29

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit up the suburban Brisbane seat of Bonner with a 10-minute visit as he dashes around the city. The voters of Bonner have elected the Coalition at every poll in the last two decades aside from 2007, when it briefly switched to Labor.

So Albanese’s decision to visit a polling booth here in his final week is telling. He is not spending the morning shoring up Labor seats where he fears the Coalition will make inroads. This is an offensive move from the prime minister that suggests confidence.

Anthony Albanese during a visit to an early voting polling place in Wynnum.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Albanese shook hands with voters queuing to cast their ballot, alongside Labor candidate Kara Cook. Just opposite him, also greeting punters, was long-term Liberal National Party MP Ross Vasta, who holds Bonner on a 3.4 per cent margin.

Vasta seemed unfazed by the prime minister’s presence. “This is democracy and we welcome democracy. There’s no problem,” he said.

Behind them was a heckler trying to get the prime minister’s attention. “What’s a woman? What are you going to do about the price of housing?” he yelled repeatedly at Albanese, who ignored him.

A local woman butted in: “And what’s the other one going to do?”

The heckler replied: “Well the other one’s worse.”

Then Albanese was off again, leaving more than a few bemused voters in his wake.

Thanks for joining us for our live coverage of news in Brisbane today. We’ll return tomorrow morning. In the meantime, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made headlines today.

For more than a decade, Brisbane property mogul Ted Amos has been locked in a battle over unpaid land tax and court costs with the Queensland government. Has he lost his last case?

NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott, who shot dead Bondi Junction Westfield attacker Joel Cauchi, has told a coronial inquest she accepted she was “probably going to die” as she faced down the killer.

The drawn-out appointment of Les Kiss as the next Wallabies coach will be finally confirmed on Wednesday, with the Queensland coach becoming the fifth man to hold the role in six years.

Media Watch has taken the ABC’s chairman to task for allegedly labelling some regional staff “arrogant” and pressuring them to give a comedian airtime.

Overseas, Canadians are voting today on whether to back their new prime minister, Mark Carney, and extend his Liberal Party’s decade in power or hand control to the Conservatives and their populist leader, Pierre Poilievre.

And ahead of Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, White House reporters arrived to find the north lawn lined with dozens of yard signs bearing the mugshots of people described as “illegal aliens” who had been arrested by law enforcement under the Trump administration’s watch.

It’s been another record day for early voting, with almost one million people casting a pre-poll ballot on Monday.

Figures from the Australian Electoral Commission show 3.2 million people have now lodged a pre-poll vote, or almost 18 per cent of the 18.1 million people on the electoral roll.

In some seats, almost one-in-three people have already voted. They include the Sydney seat of Fowler (29.3 per cent), the regional NSW seat of Gilmore where Dutton is campaigning today (26.7 per cent), Queensland seats such as Fisher (25.8 per cent) and Hinkler (26.9 per cent) and the Victorian seat of Gippsland (25.6 per cent).

The pre-polls don’t include the 776,000 postal votes that have been returned by voters, taking the number of early voters to the 4 million mark.

Albanese is in the Brisbane seat of Griffith today, where 16 per cent of people have pre-polled.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hit up the suburban Brisbane seat of Bonner with a 10-minute visit as he dashes around the city. The voters of Bonner have elected the Coalition at every poll in the last two decades aside from 2007, when it briefly switched to Labor.

So Albanese’s decision to visit a polling booth here in his final week is telling. He is not spending the morning shoring up Labor seats where he fears the Coalition will make inroads. This is an offensive move from the prime minister that suggests confidence.

Anthony Albanese during a visit to an early voting polling place in Wynnum.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Albanese shook hands with voters queuing to cast their ballot, alongside Labor candidate Kara Cook. Just opposite him, also greeting punters, was long-term Liberal National Party MP Ross Vasta, who holds Bonner on a 3.4 per cent margin.

Vasta seemed unfazed by the prime minister’s presence. “This is democracy and we welcome democracy. There’s no problem,” he said.

Behind them was a heckler trying to get the prime minister’s attention. “What’s a woman? What are you going to do about the price of housing?” he yelled repeatedly at Albanese, who ignored him.

A local woman butted in: “And what’s the other one going to do?”

The heckler replied: “Well the other one’s worse.”

Then Albanese was off again, leaving more than a few bemused voters in his wake.

The LNP will use its majority to have parliament call on Opposition Leader Steven Miles to allow the release of Labor cabinet documents relating to hospital projects.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls today moved that parliament give Miles until 5pm on Wednesday to consent to the release of the former government’s confidential documents from the State Archives.

“It has become evident in the last week that Labor are running from their history, they are running from their failures,” Nicholls said, referring to the recent review that found the building program was “undeliverable”.

Miles tried to amend the motion to have parliament note that his government relied on advice – including from health bureaucrats still in their roles – to deliver projects Queensland needed.

“There is nothing here other than politics, other than the determination of those opposite not to deliver,” Miles said.

Premier David Crisafulli has easily deflected the latest salvo from the Labor opposition.

Opposition frontbencher Grace Grace asked Crisafulli why former federal Liberal MP Julian Simmonds was appointed to head planning authority Economic Development Queensland while still politically active and authorising federal campaign material.

Crisafulli told parliament that while “those on this side of the house do understand his competency”, Grace, as minister, had also appointed Simmonds to the South Bank Corporation.

“Don’t besmirch people who’ve got good character regarded by both sides,” Crisafulli told the members opposite.

“Wake up earlier, work harder, do some research, and don’t be the worst opposition that’s made a start to this parliament in a generation and a half.”

MPs are back in State Parliament today, and have resumed the debate over various integrity issues.

Speaker Pat Weir told parliament he had referred Labor frontbenchers to the ethics committee over their claims Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie had a conflict of interest in relation to the Sunshine Coast rail project.

Weir said the MPs had failed to explain themselves and he was “of the view there is an arguable case that the members’ statements were deliberately misleading”.

Opposition Leader Steven Miles used his first question of the day to again ask about the appointment of director-general John Sosso to an electoral redistribution panel, prompting Attorney-General Deb Frecklington to declare Labor had “nothing new”.

Deputy Opposition leader Cameron Dick sought to ask Premier David Crisafulli about his previous business dealings, only for Weir to rule the question out of order because the issue was already before the ethics committee.

Crisafulli later accused Labor of a “high level of grubbiness” over the issue, insisted there was no evidence he had done anything wrong, and suggested the opposition instead explain its handling of the hospital building program.

Meanwhile, Nick Dametto, the Katter’s Australian Party MP for Hinchinbrook, told parliament he had been cautioned by police after being caught drinking full-strength beer in a community subject to alcohol restrictions.

Stones Corner Festival returns on Sunday for its free-entry 10th-anniversary edition, with plenty of music, food and markets on offer.

Busby Marou will headline this year’s Stones Corner Festival.

There will be live performances from award-winning Queensland blues-roots duo Busby Marou, a solo set from the band’s Tom Busby, tribute acts Never Ending 90s and Roaring Lion (Bob Marley), country stars Tori Darke and Brad Butcher, Byron Bay indie rockers Seaside and John Hanley & Don’t Shoot the Hurricane.

Hanley, who has battled motor neurone disease for more than a decade, is a proud supporter of the MND and Me Foundation and the festival will accept gold coin donations to the charity on entry.

The event, which has featured past performances from Mental As Anything, Regurgitator, Sneaky Sound System and Art Vs Science, will also have food trucks, local breweries and market stalls.

It runs from 12-10pm on Logan Road, Stones Corner.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to media from the southside Brisbane electorate of Griffith.

Anthony Albanese’s first visit this morning is to a housing project in Stones Corner, in the Brisbane electorate of Griffith.

This is where Max Chandler-Mather, the Greens MP, took a seat off Labor in the last election.

Chandler-Mather then became the Greens’ housing spokesman and, in turn, a thorn in Albanese’s side as he challenged the government on its housing plans.

He holds the seat on a 10.5 per cent margin. Read more about the contest for Griffith here.

A teenage girl has been arrested after a late-night graffiti blitz at one of Peter Dutton’s offices north of Brisbane.

Red paint and posters with various slogans were splashed across the building on Dawson Parade in Arana Hills.

Red paint was splashed on a portrait of Dutton’s family at the office entrance.Credit: Nine

A woman will appear in court charged with willful damage over the alleged attack.Credit: Nine

Police were called about 2.30am to reports of four people in a red sedan acting suspiciously.

The group reportedly fled, but the dog squad tracked an 18-year-old woman to a nearby park.

She has been charged with wilful damage and is due to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court on May 20.

The building is a secondary office for the opposition leader as member for Dickson.