FIRST it was Burleigh Heads and Brisbane, now another world-famous Queensland place has been earmarked for a return to its Aboriginal name – but unlike the controversy around the others, indigenous leaders say it’s a no-brainer.
IT STOLE the show at the controversial Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, but it’s been MIA ever since. Now, the Premier has announced that the giant, floating white whale that captured headlines around the world will fly again.
SECURITY staff at the Commonwealth Games who were short-changed on pay have been told they will be lucky if it’s fixed before June as GOLDOC and security contractors pass the buck.
AUSTRALIA’S queen of the swimming pool has found her king. Fresh from conquering at the Commonwealth Games Queenslander Cate Campbell has been pictured celebrating her haul of gold and silver with her new beau.
IT’S the celebration they should have got at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony. But Brisbane residents have turned out to ensure it was better late than never.
A BRISBANE surgeon and anaesthetist will donate their services to remove a cancer from the lip of an ARIA Award-winning musician after he discovered the growth while visiting the Gold Coast to perform at the Commonwealth Games.
COMMONWEALTH Games marathon champion Michael Shelley has been left devastated by a torrent of abuse over his controversial win.
GOLD Coast Commonwealth Games chairman Peter Beattie says fat ‘bonuses’ to be paid to key Games executives just for staying in the job aren’t bonuses at all – they’re ‘handcuffs’.
AN angry family who spent $2500 on premium tickets to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games opening ceremony are still waiting for answers after their views were almost totally blocked by production equipment and their requests to move were rejected.
PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk has refused to say whether she would consider Commonwealth Games chairman Peter Beattie for any further roles after the bungled closing ceremony.
WE just staged a spectacularly successful Commonwealth Games, hosting thousands of athletes and officials, and many, many more visitors. Sure there were some transport snags, and issues with the closing ceremony, but the good far outweighed the bad, writes Paul Syvret.
THE cold war had been simmering for months, with Palaszczuk ministers convinced they were being tailed by Games foot soldiers. In such a climate of mistrust, even Borobi might have been a Peter Beattie mole, writes Steven Wardill.
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