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Hamlet is out, Stranger Things and Four Corners to stay: Year 12 English text choices revealed
The list of texts Year 12 English students are allowed to study include ABC documentaries, Ancient Greek plays, and a George Clooney historical thriller.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Perspective
After a solid 2024, here’s what’s in store for Brisbane in 2025
And what – or who – could be on the way out this year ...
Courtney Kruk
City Reporter
Khawaja’s honeymoon is over. But Australia’s new odd couple must remain
Australia needs their veteran opener in hot form come next summer’s Ashes. Can he get there?
Nick Wright
Sport reporter
The new year set to reveal more about the new state government
Much of the LNP’s mostly small-target pitch, detailed before the election, will be ticked off in months. What then for a party wanting “generational” power?
Matt Dennien
Reporter
Urban Affairs
Pickleball plan for historic Brisbane school site on brink of ruin
Seventeen years after the last students left, the heritage-listed but decrepit Pinkenba State School site could be transformed into a racquet sport centre.
- by Sean Parnell
Brisbane’s missing Chinatown shade canopy gone for good
Barely a decade after Brisbane City Council installed a shade canopy in Fortitude Valley’s Chinatown Mall, it was considered in too poor a condition to remain.
- by Cameron Atfield
Analysis
Development
Questions over Howard Smith Wharves plan as developers push into river
- by Sean Parnell
City Life
Crime & Courts
Queensland’s crime-fighting Flying Squad triples in size to tackle hot spots
Almost 60 rapid response police officers will fly anywhere in Queensland to quash spikes in crime, the premier announced on Sunday.
- by Cameron Atfield
Man faces court on torture, murder charges after 52-year-old’s death
The 31-year-old man appeared in court on Saturday, as police continued to investigate an alleged violent robbery that left two injured and one dead.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Updated
Crime
Police officers bitten, shot in ‘extremely difficult’ altercation in Brisbane’s south
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Murder accused to spend weeks in custody before next court date
- by Cloe Read and Clare Sibthorpe
Politics
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
‘Ugly stepsister’: SEQ community backs Sydney whitewater venue over local Games build
A Redlands community alliance has opposed the venue’s sustainability and financial viability, echoing Senate findings that Australia cannot support two whitewater rafting facilities.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
The Mayne event: Concept promises to put 2032 Games back on the rails
An ambitious plan promises to put the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games back on track. Literally.
- by Cameron Atfield
Transport
Health
Exclusive
Road to Brisbane 2032
Labor was warned hospital projects at risk from Games development push
- by Sean Parnell
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