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The LNP’s shared equity scheme will only be available for 1000 people.

Will the LNP’s new scheme help me become a first-home buyer?

The shared equity scheme promises to help first homeowners break into the property market, but is it all it’s cracked up to be?

  • Courtney Kruk

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Yayoi Kusama’s popular interactive installation returns as part of Wonderstruck at GOMA.

Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room is back. This time, it’s a house

GOMA’s new show of old favourites features the work of one of the world’s favourite artists.

  • Nick Dent
Brisbane is continuing to grow as a popular destination for international tourists.

Brisbane on top as American, Asian tourists flock to city

New data shows Brisbane draws four in every 10 visitors to the state, and has set records for visitation from the USA, Indonesia and India.

  • Courtney Kruk
The fog over Highgate Hill in Brisbane.

As it happened: Brisbane on Tuesday, June 24

For today’s news updates in Brisbane and beyond as they happen, follow us here.

Footage posted to community alert page Brisbane Incident Alerts on June 21 shows a bus driver being assaulted by a passenger, allegedly for refusing to pay a 50-cent fare.

‘Quite traumatised’: Brisbane bus driver may have permanent ear damage after attack

The lord mayor and union officials are calling for repeat offenders to be banned from public transport.

  • Courtney Kruk
The Q150 Shed in Augathella, prior to being transported to Wynnum and restored.

How a miraculous outback find changed the fortunes of the Wynnum Fringe

With Dolly, Wesley, Tex and more, the 2025 festival has a country music line-up worthy of the Grand Ole Opry – plus an outback treasure finding a new home in Wynnum.

  • Nick Dent
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The Streets Beach at South Bank has been closed and drained for a second time this year while management investigates a stubborn leak.

Mystery lagoon leak leaves South Bank beach closed, with no reopening date

Investigators are yet to find where the pool has been leaking and no time frame given for when it will reopen, warning of longer and more frequent closures as the lagoon continued to age.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Hidden black mould revealed after renters pulled a couch from the wall, submitted to the Facebook page Don’t Rent Me.

Aimee’s rental is making her sick. One in three homes have the same issue

Despite minimum-standard regulations introduced by the Queensland government last year, tenants have limited options when homes become unsafe to live in.

  • Courtney Kruk
Work to restore the Story Bridge will continue for up to 20 years.

Lord mayor calls for 80-20 split on Story Bridge, as new footpath details revealed

Brisbane’s lord mayor has pointed out the federal government forked out more than $600 million for a bridge in Tasmania, which only gets 22,000 daily vehicles, while 100,000 use the Story Bridge.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Brisbane lord mayor Adrian Schrinner delivered council’s annual 2025-26 budget.

Lord mayor defends $100 rate hike for inner-city Brisbane units

But others worry it sends the wrong message in a housing crisis.

  • Courtney Kruk

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