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Miles and Co. claiming credit for landmark $7.2bn Bruce Hwy fix

Major Bruce Highway upgrades will be funded in the 2025-26 state budget and begin by the end of the year after both sides of federal politics committed to a $7.2bn cash injection, as the State Opposition tries to claim the credit.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Gympie on January 6, 2025.

‘Horrific’: PM reveals priority for Bruce Highway upgrades

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says parts of the Bruce Highway in the region will be a ‘priority’ in its new $7.2 billion funding package, but no clear time frame exists on four-laning another key section of the notorious road.

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LUDDENHAM, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 30, 2024. Catherine King MP gets a tour of construction progress on the terminal at Western Sydney International (Nancy Bird Walton) Airport. Western Sydney suburb of Luddenham & BadgeryÃ•s Creek. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Minister: No more unfulfilled promises, kicking the can down the road

In recognition of the Bruce Highway’s national importance, the federal government is funding 80 per cent of its upgrade, writes Catherine King.

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The wreck of a bright yellow Hyandai hatchback car pictured on the Bruce Highway on Sunday morning after it collided with a traffic sign south of Ingham on Friday evening. Picture: Cameron Bates

Editor’s view: Multibillion-dollar highway fix a win for Queensland

Today’s funding announcement for the Bruce Highway is a massive win for Queensland – and for the power of journalism, writes the editor.

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PM hints at multibillion-dollar plan to ‘finish’ Bruce Highway

After facing a Bush Summit grilling over the state of the Bruce Highway, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted that finally an end may be in sight for suffering Queenslanders.

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Premier of Queensland Steven Miles, The Courier-Mail Editor Chris Jones, Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, The Courier-Mail Bush Summit, Townsville. Picture: Liam Kidston

Bush Summit’s No.1 priority: Fix the bloody Bruce Hwy

Several key priorities have emerged from today’s Bush Summit, but none greater than locking in a hard deadline for finishing off the Bruce Highway. LIVE UPDATES

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Road trippers recruit support to rebuild Qld’s hell highway

The authors of a damning report that exposed significant safety failures on the Bruce Highway have begun discussions with state and federal politicians.

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Katrina Worboys with her partner Branden Hellyer and their son Alijah, after blowing a tyre in a massive pothole on the Bruce Highway near Bajool. Photo Darryn Nufer.

OPINION: Dear Premier, time to ditch plane, drive Bruce Hwy

It’s hard to see how a Premier who continues to pick planes over cars can ever truly understand – or be forced to fix – the deplorable state of the Bruce Hwy, writes reporter Geordi Offord

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5 times more likely to die: LNP’s funding plan to fix Bruce Hwy

The Opposition says it will fight “tooth and nail” for an 80/20 funding split with the federal government to finish the Bruce Highway, if elected in October.

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Help our Highway dinkus on image: Dawson MP Andrew Willcox has launched a campaign calling for the return of 80:20 federal and state government funding for Bruce Highway road projects.

MP calls for return to 80/20 funding split on Bruce Highway

A new campaign is pushing to revert the funding model for Bruce Highway upgrades back to a 80-20 split between the state and federal governments.

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Bruce Hwy stretch that claimed three lives officially worst of the worst

The section of the Bruce Highway where three people lost their lives in a horrific recent crash has been deemed the worst on the highway.

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Bruce Hwy still used as a political plaything

The federal government needs a totemic promise to win back regional Queensland, and there’s nothing that unites them better than the Bruce Highway, writes Hayden Johnson.

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Triple-fatal bus horror could have been prevented – here’s how

If the Bruce Highway is Queensland’s worst major road, the site of a horror bus crash is one of the worst of the worst. But it didn’t need to happen.

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While MPs obsessed over a senator’s grandstanding, three people died

If only our political leaders focused on the dangers of vehicles crossing the median strip in regional Qld as much as they did on senators crossing the floor in Canberra, writes The Editor.

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