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Queensland’s tourism minister wants Brisbane to become the events capital of Australia over the next 20 years.

‘35,000 screaming tourists’: Brisbane’s role in new tourism strategy

Days after announcing a 20-year plan to grow the state’s tourism industry, the government has narrowed its focus on the River City.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Boggo Road Village, a mixed-use office and retail complex located between Dutton Park’s Ecosciences Precinct and Brisbane’s historic Boggo Road Gaol, is expected to open by the end of 2025. It is not yet known if and when tours of the notorious prison will resume.

Future use of Boggo Road Gaol under a cloud

A new mixed-use precinct neighbouring Boggo Road Gaol is expected to open by the end of the year, but future use of the historic prison anchoring the site remains unclear.

  • Courtney Kruk
Natural Bridge in Springbrook National Park

‘Tasmania, we’re coming for you’: 20-year tourism plan to make Queensland No.1

Destination 2045 includes nearly 50 new ecotourism projects to leverage the state’s natural assets.

  • Courtney Kruk
Brisbane born singer-songwriter Kita Alexander is fronting a new campaign to attract interstate visitors to Queensland.

Rising Qld star headlines new tourism campaign with Madonna classic

Fresh off the stage from her tour with Dua Lipa, Brisbane-born Kita Alexander has been recruited to give interstate visitors “That Holiday Feeling”.

  • Courtney Kruk
‘Bluey’s world, for real life’ lofficially launched in Brisbane this morning.

Bluey and Robert Irwin team up to attract visitors to Queensland

An international audience will be urged to “Come and play in Bluey’s world”, as the state launches its biggest tourism campaign in a decade.

  • Courtney Kruk
Teams spent days tending to the coral of the Great Barrier Reef after Tropical Cyclone Jasper.

Storm crowds: The worst disaster is when travellers stay away

It’s a question worth asking as operators continue to struggle from the jolt of Jasper, and just two years on from SEQ’s worst flooding event.

  • Courtney Kruk
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Tangalooma Beach is home to 15 shipwrecks, deliberately sunk to provide calmer mooring for boats, now a popular snorkelling and diving attraction.

Moreton Bay beach breaks into world top 100 on Lonely Planet

Turquoise waters, world-class snorkelling and abundant marine life can be found 25km from Brisbane’s shoreline.

  • Courtney Kruk
Australian Army soldiers from 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment, assist personnel from the Queensland Police Swift Water Rescue team and Surf Life Saving Queensland with recovery operations in Cairns’ Northern Beaches last week.

‘We’ve lost nearly $300 million’: Discount flights to lift flood-hit FNQ

A tourism recovery package has been announced to encourage visitors back to devastated parts of Far North Queensland.

  • Courtney Kruk
Bluey and her little sister Bingo pose with children at Brisbane’s Howard Smith Wharves where it was announced that a 3_D mult-million tourist attraction named Bluey’s World was coming to Hamilton Northshore by August 2024.

Bluey and Bingo invite the world to play at their new Brisbane home

The world of TV’s most famous family is set to come alive when Bluey’s World, a 4000sq m tourist attraction, opens in Brisbane next year.

  • Tony Moore
Charleville in outback Queensland played an overlooked but fascinating part of Australia’s World War II history.

The secret outback base where the US hid one of its top weapons

Despite playing host to 3500 US airmen and hiding a device used in the bombing of Hiroshima, Charleville barely registers a blip on Australia’s wartime radar.

  • Catherine Best

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