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Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.

‘Think about evacuating’: Map shows 20,000 Brisbane properties at risk of flooding

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has urged residents in low-lying suburbs at risk of flooding to consider evacuating.

  • Cloe Read

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The revised plan for the Brisbane Arena saw the indoor stadium moved to the northern end of Roma Street Parklands.

State welcomes inter-city Olympic tension as Brisbane misses out on Matildas

Queensland’s sports minister has encouraged competitive tension between Brisbane and the Gold Coast over which city should host 2032 Olympic and Paralympic swimming.

  • Cameron Atfield
Boundaries of the city core (maroon) and city frame (mustard).

Half a car space per unit: Brisbane to slash inner-city car park conditions

The Labor council opposition is set to back Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s proposal to reduce car park requirements for more high-density inner-city developments.

  • Cameron Atfield
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, pictured with councillor Krista Adams, said the former Palaszczuk government treated Brisbane City Council like “outsiders”.

‘We were excluded’: Lord Mayor hits back at Palaszczuk over Games plan

Adrian Schrinner says the former premier politicised Brisbane’s Olympic bid, excluding council from talks and blindsiding it on key decisions.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Marissa Calligeros
The canopy pictured in March 2011, when the Chinatown Mall renovation was completed.

Brisbane’s missing Chinatown shade canopy gone for good

Barely a decade after Brisbane City Council installed a shade canopy in Fortitude Valley’s Chinatown Mall, it was considered in too poor a condition to remain.

  • Cameron Atfield
David Crisafulli greets his deputy Jarrod Bleijie at the LNP’s campaign launch in Ipswich, held on the last Sunday before the October election.

How the LNP bypassed key Games partners to pick its own review team

When the month-old government named its expert team to put Brisbane back on track for 2032, some Olympic stakeholders were hearing about it for the first time.

  • Matt Dennien
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The new Brisbane Metro tunnel beneath Adelaide Street is now fully excavated in preparation for the staged implementation of Brisbane Metro in 2025. Under a landmark agreement between the Crisafulli Government and Schrinner Council, permanent Brisbane Metro services will be rolled out in stages from 28 January. The staged introduction of Brisbane Metro will be the biggest evolution of Brisbane’s bus network in generations, ensuring more services are delivered more often to keep Brisbane moving.

Council promises January Metro relaunch following CBD tunnel milestone

The Brisbane City Council has promised to launch permanent Metro services through the CBD from late January, due to a “landmark” deal with the state government.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Miles and Schrinner are all smiles after announcing the state government will boost its share of bus funding.

City Hall apologises to those ‘misled’ over Metro trial – but digs in

Amid mounting contradictions and accusations of lying, Brisbane City Council insists an early Metro rollout was always going to end.

  • Matt Dennien
The first of the Brisbane Metro buses began testing in 2022 before starting on the existing 196 route last month. It’s unclear when they’ll be back.

‘We should be worried’: Brisbane Metro ‘preview’ rolls to a quiet stop

A much-hyped partial start to Brisbane City Council’s $1.4 billion Metro bus project has ended just one month after it began, causing opposition concern.

  • Matt Dennien
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner (right) with Andrew Liveris, president of the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic Games.

‘Rewriting history’: Schrinner adamant new stadium was always planned

The lord mayor has rejected claims Brisbane was never meant to have a new Olympic stadium. And he wants all options considered – even Albion, again.

  • William Davis

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