The state’s borders will reopen to returning Queenslanders earlier than planned after mandates denying unvaccinated people a beer and a pub meal drove thousands to get the jab. Tax cuts worth over $1000 to millions of Australians could be extended to avoid a hit to low and middle-income earners after next year’s election. The controversial former ABC riverfront site which the national broadcaster abandoned 14 years ago because of a cancer cluster will soon become a luxury riverfront apartment complex. Life in Brisbane in 10 years time will be more liveable, better connected, booming with new infrastructure and development and racing towards a population of 3.1 million according to new data.

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