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Brisbane City Council has approved Shayher Group’s plan to convert the former fabrication workshop at Bulimba Barracks into a “new lifestyle precinct” including a supermarket, retail ad hospitality venues.

Brisbane River ‘lifestyle precinct’ finally given the green light

After a decade of planning, the transformation of an old Defence Force site can finally begin after Brisbane City Council gave its tick of approval.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Illustration by Simon Letch

After polling day, our leaders will come clean about the trouble we’re in

By pretending that a planet-scale upheaval is not happening, our political leaders are not helping Australia deal with it.

  • Peter Hartcher
Peter Curtin, wrongly drafted into the Army, is still waiting for justice 56 years later.

His birthday wasn’t picked from the barrel. He was conscripted anyway

Peter Curtin was conscripted into the army during the Vietnam War years. It upended his life. Two decades later, he learned his birthdate hadn’t even been drawn.

  • Tony Wright
The soldiers' vote: men of the 44th Battalion cast their ballots; conscription referendum, Belgium, December 8, 1917?

Why so many Diggers voted ‘no’ to conscription in WWI

Australians, including many thousands of Diggers fighting in Europe, voted against conscription during the Great War. It was a blow to then-prime minister Billy Hughes.

  • Oliver Sinclair

Pro-Palestine group sends teachers classroom guide challenging ‘Anzac mythology’

Teachers for Palestine want schoolchildren taught about Australian soldiers acting as “enforcers of Empire” in post-WWI Egypt.

  • Alex Crowe and Noel Towell
Veteran’s advocate Julie-Anne Finney, with a photo of her son David, and John Schumann in front of pictures of service people who have taken their lives.

‘I’m running out of ways to forget’: For many, the war is never over

There is a parallel world that moves through Anzac Day. It is the shadowland inhabited by those who served this country. It is a land defined by its loss.

  • Warwick McFadyen
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton has vowed to significantly outspend Labor on defence.

Dutton heeds Trump’s call on defence, vows to massively outspend Labor

The Coalition will promise to significantly outspend Labor by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2030.

  • Matthew Knott
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with the former Liberal candidate for Whitlam, Benjamin Britton, in January.

Dutton vows to support women in combat after dumped candidate goes on attack

Former Liberal candidate Benjamin Britton claimed the party’s defence spokesman Andrew Hastie shared his view that women should not be in combat units.

  • Olivia Ireland, Natassia Chrysanthos and Matthew Knott
The wreckage of the helicopter.

Families briefed on safety report into army chopper crash

Investigators ruled out the controversial night vision visor system TopOwl as a contributing factor, despite damning evidence being heard in a separate public inquiry in Brisbane.

  • Fraser Barton
Ben Roberts-Smith outside the Federal Court in 2022.

‘Person 17’: Conversation with Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-lover at centre of appeal bid

Three judges will hear Ben Roberts-Smith’s application to introduce a leaked audio recording in evidence in his defamation appeal.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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