Editor’s view: We must find ways to get venues done
Today marks seven years until the Opening Ceremony of the 2032 Games, and the state finally seems to have shrugged off red tape and uncertainty to make inroads on venues and infrastructure.
Queensland
700-plus kids missing, resi care providers unlicensed in ‘clear system failure’
Hundreds of Queensland children in state-sanctioned residential care are currently missing from the system, with the government launching an emergency audit to find them.
‘Seven years to go’: World’s best called in to transform Victoria Park
The world’s best architects will be given a blank canvas to create an Olympic Games precinct in Brisbane to rival those that transformed Sydney and London.
Revealed: Qld university’s landmark $2bn vaccine deal
Breakthrough vaccine technology invented by the University of Queensland is at the centre of a landmark deal worth over $2bn struck by global pharmaceutical giant Sanofi.
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Qld man accused of rape to be tested for ‘sexsomnia’
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