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Another 22 sections of the Bruce Highway will undergo upgrades.

$500m blitz to fix Qld’s deadliest highway

After years of fatal crashes, Queensland’s notorious Bruce Highway has received a lifeline with 22 critical upgrade zones confirmed. SEE THE LIST

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Queensland is one of three jurisdictions yet to submit its data for AusRAP safety ratings. Picture: Austroads

What’s wrong with this picture? Qld delays crucial data yet again

Queensland has quietly pushed back the release of critical road safety data by a full year, breaking a promise made 20 months ago.

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Fatal five: The major Qld roads even deadlier than Bruce Hwy

Queensland’s deadliest highways have been exposed in a bombshell report, with eight sections of five other highways proving even more lethal than the Bruce Hwy.

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150 jobs will be created in a $9 billion plan to fix key sections of the Bruce Hwy.

Mapped: Every priority point in deadly Bruce Hwy overhaul

The $9 billion rollout details of the Bruce Highway upgrade have been released highlighting the key sections to be prioritised. Is your postcode getting fixed? Where, when and how.

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Federal and State Ministers Catherine King and Brent Mickelberg were in Bauple on Friday morning to inspect early roadworks as part of a $9 billion Bruce Highway program.

Bruce Hwy upgrade up and running at last

After years of political bickering and a sustained campaign from The Courier Mail there’s finally a plan for the Bruce, writes the editor.

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Works on the Bruce Highway are expected to blow out.

Bruce Hwy works bill tipped to blow out as $200m plan revealed

Sections of the Bruce Highway in north Queensland are set to be upgraded and experience cost blowouts as the federal government unveils the first projects funded by a new $9bn package.

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Brisbane, 17 February 2025. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli during a press conference at the Sunnybank state school. Picture: Supplied by the Department of the Premier/Tertius Pickard.

Time’s up David, what’s the plan for the Bruce? Olympics? Crime?

David Crisafulli hasn’t been premier for long but by now we should know what the plans are. Why the wait? VOTE IN OUR POLL

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If the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result, then rebuilding a bridge on the Bruce Highway at Ollera Creek, in the same location and at the same height, doesn’t make a lot of sense, David Crisafulli writes..

Premier: Why rebuilding this bridge is the definition of insanity

Rebuilding the Ollera Creek bridge on the Bruce Highway in the same location and at the same height doesn’t make a lot of sense, writes Premier David Crisafulli in an exclusive opinion piece.

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PM slams Bruce Hwy, as military might unleashed on flood clean-up

The Prime Minister hasn’t pulled any punches in his assessment of a critical part of the Bruce Highway as he visits flood-ragaved North Queensland, vowing to provide “whatever support is necessary”.

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Chilling Bruce Highway truth we can no longer hide from

More than half of the fatal road crashes on the Bruce Highway last year were on parts of the road that failed basic safety measures, it can be revealed.

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Staggering cost as Bruce Hwy closures total a month per year

When the Bruce is closed, Queensland is closed, and it was closed for an appalling amount of time in 2024, writes Brent Mickelberg.

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‘Tin pot dictator’: Union slams LNP’s plan to ban CFMEU from Bruce Hwy fix

A major union has slammed Peter Dutton’s Bruce Highway funding caveat to exclude the CFMEU from future projects, warning that any move to ban workers from sites would be illegal.

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The Bruce Highway will receive billions in funding regardless of the federal election outcome, after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton declared he would match the government’s $7.2bn funding pledge.

Dutton to match $7.2bn pledge, bans CFMEU from all future Bruce Hwy projects

The Bruce Highway will receive billions in funding regardless of the federal election outcome, after Peter Dutton matched the government’s $7.2bn pledge and vowed to ban the militant union.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - JULY 6, 2024. Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton (right) and Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli during the LNP Convention in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NewsWire

Dutton takes a leaf out of Crisafulli’s playbook

The smart way to limit any political capital the Prime Minister may have won on the Bruce Highway would have been to immediately match the funding commitment, writes the editor.

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