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Brendan O’Malley has been a journalist with The Courier-Mail and Quest Newspapers for 30 years, covering Council, state politics, the environment, science and the far north Qld bureau. He currently covers courts and local issues in Brisbane’s inner-west, southwest, inner south and inner north suburbs.

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Airport parking at Brisbane domestic terminal. Pic Peter Wallis

Brisbane Airport car parking sky rockets to third most expensive

Long-term car parking fees at Brisbane Airport have been increased, making it almost as expensive as parking a light aircraft.

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(Top right) Bus union boss Tom Brown and (bottom right) council transport chair Ryan Murphy are at loggerheads over a pay deal for drivers.

$2.5m in back pay is all it will take to stop Brisbane bus strike

Just $50 a week in back pay per driver is all it will take to stop a Brisbane City Council bus strike that’s set to impact hundreds of trips on Thursday morning, a union leader says.

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Brisbane City Council buses are now cashless and enter from the rear door to protect drivers from Coronavirus, Brisbane 25th of March 2020. (AAP Image/Josh Woning)

Bus driver strike: When, where it will impact you

Brisbane City Council bus drivers will stop work for two hours on Thursday in industrial action which will impact more than 400 trips.

Brisbane City

News/ personality 31/3/ 1984 Roy and Pearl Harvey in the audience at the Bruce Springsteen concert at QE11 Brisbane . Roy was forner Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Neg/no RV 3898-23 box/no Picture by Ted Holliday Scanned March / 2010 The Courier-Mail Photo Archive

Pioneering Brisbane Lady Mayoress ‘called home’

The wife of former Lord Mayor Roy Harvey, a lifelong Brisbane resident and pillar of the community in her own right, has sadly been “called home’’.

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Anti-semitic graffiti in South Brisbane.

Offensive anti-Semitic graffiti discovered in inner Brisbane

New anti-Semitic graffiti discovered in inner city Brisbane has sparked calls from Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner to end hate crimes.

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Council has announced it will reinvigorate the area around the (clockwise from top left) Mt Gravatt Homemaker Centre, Westfield Mt Gravatt and Mt Gravatt Plaza employment hubs.

Bold high-density, lifestyle precinct plans for southside hub

A busy southside hub is the latest Brisbane precinct set to undergo a housing and lifestyle makeover under a council “precinct’’ plan.

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HOLD SEE COURIER MAIL PIC DESK.11 month old Koala Joey Heaven who is one of roughly thirty recent rescues carried out by the Queensland Koala Society from roads surrounding Whites Hill Reserve which is home to southern BrisbaneÃs healthiest Koala population. QKS is hoping to have speed limits on Pine Mountain Road and Boundary road reduced to kerb the number of koala fatalities in the area. Picture Lachie Millard

MAPPED: Shocking koala death toll in key Brisbane habitat

Koalas and other wildlife are dying in huge numbers in the heart of Brisbane’s best habitat. SEE THE DEATH MAP

Brisbane City

A detailed plan to keep Brisbane moving and deliver a long-term transport legacy beyond the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been released by Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner. The Race to Gold: Brisbane’s Games Transport Legacy outlines 18 initiatives, including a massive expansion of the Brisbane Metro bus rapid transit project to 22 new stations and stops in the north, south, east and the airport. Brisbane 2032 had the biggest head start for any Summer Olympics in history yet one in four days have already been lost., Brisbane has grown faster than any other capital city over the past 10 years, with 1.55 million people expected to call Brisbane home by 2041. CityGlider Picture Brisbane City Council

Brisbane bus drivers could walk off job as pay stoush escalates

Brisbane City Council bus drivers could go on strike from next week if their demands for a pay rise, on par with what police are negotiating, are not met.

Brisbane City

Fudge the koala (inset) has been released after council helped rehabilitate him. But it has come under fire for diverting bushland levy revenue to Archerfield Wetlands District Park rather than buying koala habitat.

Claims council diverted part of $20m bush levy to park upgrade

Council has hit back at claims it diverted part of the $20m-a-year ratepayer-funded bushland levy to upgrade a Brisbane park, as it struggles to balance the books.

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Musgrave Park has turned into the Paniyiri festival and has seen most living in tents moved on for the festival, a few remain in a safe area built for them. West End Friday 17th May 2024 Picture David Clark

Cheaper to help homeless than do nothing, report finds

The government would save half a million dollars per person, every decade, if it funded “supported’’ accommodation for the homeless a damning new report released says.

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