After eight years of planning, and a cost blowout from $944 million to $1.7 billion, the Brisbane Metro project could be delayed until 2025 because of a war of words that has erupted over a funding agreement. Here’s why.
Two months before the Brisbane local government election, Labor has vowed to cut the council Olympic advisory committee and ruled out doing deals with the Greens.
The state’s mayors and councillors have been granted pay bumps worth thousands of dollars, with a major rejig of how councils are classified delivering four mayors a five-figure increase. TABLE: HOW MUCH YOUR MAYOR WILL EARN
Free food and garden waste collection, more 10c container recycling bins, and transforming King George Square are among Labor’s promises ahead of the Brisbane City Council election.
Southside voters were surprised to see an angry Assistant Returning officer dragging off a dinosaur from outside a polling station as election staff patrolled coronavirus rules and booth policies.
No matter which Redlands mayoral candidate claims victory today, the city they will inherit is not the same one they signed up. Here’s how the region has changed in mere weeks and how these candidates plan to support it.
ECQ staff made up for the lack of hand sanitiser at a Logan polling booth with a spray can of Glen 20, which was still not enough to allay some voters’ fears.
Despite great fear over the spread of the coronavirus, the ECQ has warned those who fail to vote in today’s council elections can expect to cop a fine.
Council elections are going ahead across the state today despite fears over the spread of COVID-19. This is what Brisbane’s two challengers want you to know.
With the 2020 council election now upon us, here’s the full list of candidates for each Townsville City Council division.
Complaints alleging collusion between Gold Coast deputy mayor Donna Gates and a candidate in her former seat have been sent to the Crime and Corruption Commission and Electoral Commission.
As Queenslanders prepare to have their say in the March 28 council election, we asked the candidates to give us an insight into who they are, and what they’re pledging when it comes to making our communities better. Meet them here.
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