Mark Bailey
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Political leadership
Who’s in, who’s out: New-look Queensland cabinet to take shape after meeting
Mark Bailey and Stirling Hinchliffe’s roles will need to be filled under a Miles government. And those won’t be the only changes.
- by Matt Dennien
Latest
Senate report demands halt to Gabba rebuild
A Senate committee has called for work on the $2.7 billion Gabba rebuild to be halted, as the Queensland government sounds out the construction market.
- by Cameron Atfield
Airtrain negotiation breakdown to put squeeze on Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport has warned congestion in and out of the airport will only get worse until Airtrain’s monopoly on public transport to the precinct is torn up.
- by Cameron Atfield
Gold Coast M1 upgrades suffer massive cost blowout
Transport Minister Mark Bailey claims the federal government isn’t playing ball. His department’s own website suggests otherwise.
- by Zach Hope
Perspective
City council
Forget about water under the bridge. In Brisbane, there’s politics all over it
Beyond the machinations over council’s budget cuts and delayed shade for Victoria bridge, it’s the political barbs that are most revealing.
- by Matt Dennien
Reckless riders on footpaths, cycleways may end up in court
E-scooter and bike riders will need to offer assistance after a crash or provide their details under proposed laws to help streamline road rules.
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
Government
MPs back to parliament after a government walk in a winter blunder land
While the post-budget roadshow gave them a chance to spruik their goods, the government has had anything but a chance to take a breath over the mid-year break.
- by Matt Dennien
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Government
Fellow minister’s train budget blues ‘clearly a distraction’: Fentiman
The government’s handling of $2.4 billion train building cost blowout, not proactively revealed by senior figures, has overshadowed the work of late.
- by Matt Dennien
Transport Minister grilled over $2.4 billion train blowout
A stuff-up or a cover-up? That was the question that dominated Transport Minister Mark Bailey’s time in the budget estimate hot seat.
- by Cameron Atfield
Deep down, Cross River Rail commuters will stay connected
The tunnelling is complete and the tracks laid. Now work is well under way to ensure commuters under Brisbane’s city streets never lose contact with the outside world.
- by Cameron Atfield
Qld opposition celebrates LNP’s Fadden win, government dismisses it
State MPs had wildly different interpretations of the byelection result, as the LNP celebrated making its safe Gold Coast seat even safer.
- by Cameron Atfield
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