Caviar and truffles: I can’t believe this is pub grub
Local pubs are attracting top chefs and turning out high quality dishes, discovers Des Houghton.
Insight
This was the week Labor was exposed
From the Sports Minister’s meddling in grants to ‘baloney’ over funding for police staff increases, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s government is looking awfully exposed, write Des Houghton.
Why Mater’s plan for Springfield is being ignored
The State Government has trumpeted job-creating projects in the region, but it remains a mystery why final approvals for a public hospital at Springfield are being overlooked. It could be because there are no marginal seats in the Springfield-Ipswich corridor, writes Des Houghton.
Is Labor’s ‘wunderkind’ Mike Kaiser playing the long game?
The Premier may have claimed not to know him, but for anyone with a passing interest in Queensland politics, Mike Kaiser is hard to forget and the former leader-in-waiting’s return to the corridors of power is of little surprise to Labour insiders, writes Michael Madigan.
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Top cop renewing the force for good
A girl from a tiny town on the Atherton Tablelands, the daughter of migrants, has become our first female police commissioner and, as Matthew Condon writes, she’s earned her stripes
Island paradises set for return to glory days
Three years on from Cyclone Debbie, Whitsunday islands like Daydream, Hamilton and Hayman are shining again with predictions they’ll soon surpass the popularity of their 1980s halcyon days.
Grim future for ‘Australia’s biggest suburb’
Southeast Queensland’s two biggest cities are now almost one – joined by one long sprawl of indistinct urban development. It’s home to the fastest-growing suburb outside a capital city in Australia, and it’s only going to become more crowded.
$4.8b tunnel flood warnings ignored
A Brisbane City Council chief warned nine years ago a new $4.8 billion tunnel under the city would “pose immediate and long-term” flooding issues. Yet flood mitigation work was scaled back and now angry residents are demanding action, writes Des Houghton.
Trams derailed by a city’s progress
Fifty years on, the scrapping of Brisbane’s trams remains one of the most appalling urban planning mistakes in the city’s history and only now are planners looking at righting a monumentally stupid wrong, writes Michael Madigan.
Baby killer deported under tightened rules
Raymond Akhtar Ali, convicted of murdering and cutting up his newborn baby girl in 1998, was quietly deported from Australia having served a life sentence in jail. The baby’s grandmother says her daughter was under a spell when the horrific event took place.
Quirky tales of life at City Hall
There’s rarely been a dull moment for retiring Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk, who recalls tears during royal visits, a Middle East diplomatic near-incident, bizarre correspondence with a cat, photos with “naked magicians” and being involved in a “security breach”.
Meet Australia’s most advanced warship
The River City has a front-row view of one of the world’s most sophisticated navy ships as the HMAS Brisbane (III) visits its namesake for the first time, writes Michael Madigan.
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