A former top public servant has tried but failed to prevent the release of a Crime and Corruption Commission report into his alleged wrongdoing while at the helm of the Public Trustee of Queensland. Now, the material is set to be released.
A family-owned farm on the Granite Belt, operating since the end of World War II and which supplied the likes of leading supermarkets and pizza giant Domino’s, has gone belly up owing creditors $5m.
A former senior figure at Queensland’s dysfunctional building regulator has torn strips off the agency as another top employee heads for the exits.
A bankrupt former Brisbane lawyer has just been sued by the law society over his audacious bid to get back in the legal game.
SEXPO, organisers of an adult consumer exhibition, lost a Federal Court challenge in Brisbane against Collective Shout, a grassroots outfit which campaigns against “the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls’’.
THERE was plenty of fanfare this week when it emerged that basketball legend Andrew Bogut had signed a two-year deal with the Sydney Kings. And it was a Brisbane businessman that sealed the deal.
City Beat has heard plenty of wild rumours but this one about Blue Sky and Jordan Belfort, AKA the Wolf of Wall Street, really grabbed our attention.
KIM Morison, the man in charge of troubled Brisbane investment firm Blue Sky following the resignation of Rob Shand, knows about doing it tough.
THE Porsche-driving Brisbane bizoid stepped down in December as MD and CEO of electrical contracting giant J&P Richardson Industries and now faces a legal battle with ASIC.
THE chairman of Queensland’s peak real estate industry lobby group has stepped down unexpectedly but members have been kept in the dark about the real reasons for the move.
UNDER the best-case scenario, creditors of failed Brisbane hospitality identity Damian Griffiths will claw back just 5 cents on the dollar – with the best chance to recover money lying in a couple of apartments in Paris.
SOME of the family ties connecting the key players from embattled fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments to the outside world of politics and law are very intriguing.
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