Companies with any links to or who profit from fossil fuel projects would be barred from getting any future Brisbane City Council contracts, under a radical Greens election proposal.
A bizarre stoush has erupted between Brisbane’s local Liberal and Labor parties following allegations of election campaigning at a cemetery over the weekend. SEE THE FLYER.
All new developments would be banned in Brisbane’s most flood-prone areas as part of the Greens’ overhaul if the party is voted into power in the city council election next month.
The Greens will unveil plans to turn traffic lanes on six Brisbane roads into bus lanes or transit lanes as part of their proposal to ease congestion by improving the bus network.
Women will take up more than half of the seats in Logan City Council as results slowly trickle in more than three weeks after the local government election.
A busy southside polling booth is now the centre of a police hunt after an election official was allegedly punched by a voter.
Logan is one of only 20 councils left without a result nearly three weeks after the local government election. But the Electoral Commission of Queensland blamed the slow vote counting on the need for accuracy.
Just 311 extra votes would have seen the Greens win only their second ever Brisbane City Council ward, with a veteran LNP councillor clinching victory in the final count.
Whistleblower Darren Power, who is likely to become Logan’s next mayor, says the biggest challenges will be guiding the city through the coronavirus, drafting a budget in weeks and deciding on the next CEO.
A full-time teacher will take four years’ leave to serve as a councillor in one of the state’s fastest-growing areas which covers the emerging estate at Flagstone.
The incoming Logan City Council will have less than two months to draft a budget and vote on whether to accept a controversial 2 per cent pay rise.
Re-elected Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has unveiled his new half-female civic cabinet, which includes a new coronavirus taskforce – and a new position for himself.
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