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Playwright and actor Amelia Slatter (right) wrote and stars in <i>8 Years Later</i>, a play about Brisbane’s Olympic preparations.

Brisbane’s Olympic stadium stoush to hit the stage – but the fight’s not over yet

Protests over the Victoria Park stadium have inspired a stage show that takes an irreverent view of the development divide.

  • Nick Dent

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Campbell Newman with an unflattering painting of his former LNP government colleagues David Crisafulli and Jarrod Bleijie.

Newman takes aim at former colleagues, hints at Victoria Park legal strategy

For the 100-or-so people who assembled in Victoria Park to mark 150 years since its establishment on Wednesday morning, the mood was more resolute than celebratory.

  • Cameron Atfield
Sir Leo at work in March 1987.

The ‘architect of modern Queensland’ farewelled in Brisbane

Sir Leo Hielscher has been remembered for his pioneering vision for the Queensland, his love for his family – and for some of the finer things in life.

  • Cameron Atfield
Labor deputy leader Cameron Dick and shadow health minister Mark Bailey at a press conference in Brisbane to discuss the abandonment of Dr Krispin Hajkowicz

Opposition, former LNP premier raise questions over top doc hiring

Campbell Newman and Labor don’t often see eye-to-eye. But both want answers over the chief health officer recruitment process after revelations about political signage at the first pick’s home.

  • Matt Dennien
Screenshot from Back to the Future II.

Will Bally’s bring the Biff to Queen’s Wharf?

Queenslanders were promised champagne and caviar. Turns out, we could end up with Coke and crackers.

  • Cameron Atfield
Protesters gather at Victoria Park in Brisbane.

‘Delay and obstruct’: Hundreds rally against Olympic stadium at Victoria Park

High-profile campaigners, including a former LNP premier, Labor minister and Greens councillor, joined the protest, vowing to take the fight to court.

  • William Davis
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The canopy pictured in March 2011, when the Chinatown Mall renovation was completed.

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.

  • Cameron Atfield
Queensland’s ‘red chamber’, where the Legislative Council upper house used to sit.

A Queensland Senate may be the only thing to protect the LNP from itself

A proportionally representative Queensland upper house would protect future state governments from their worst instincts.

  • Cameron Atfield
Queen’s Wharf staged openings begin in August.

Queen’s Wharf will be a winner but no denying many visitors will lose

At a time so many people are already struggling to keep a roof over their heads, this shiny new palace won’t help.

  • Cameron Atfield
“If projects are fully funded, if they’re in the budget, if they’re under way – good governments, good oppositions honour those,” Crisafulli told journalists in Townsville on Wednesday.

Crisafulli cops flak from both flanks over support of Labor budget

The Opposition Leader’s “small-target” approach to October’s election has drawn criticism from both Labor and the last LNP colleague to run the state.

  • Matt Dennien

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