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Brisbane City Council operates over 4,300 permanent, temporary and mobile cameras.

These measures promise improved public safety, but at what cost?

Increased surveillance across Brisbane and expanded police powers are said to keep us safer and reduce violent crimes. Evidence suggests this is not always the case.

  • Courtney Kruk

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The Story Bridge should serve as a warning – and an opportunity

The Story Bridge’s woes serve as a stark warning to another ageing river crossing a couple of kilometres upstream, and could be a catalyst for a city-changing tunnel.

  • Cameron Atfield
Queensland’s pill testing sites closed in April. A report evaluating their efficacy was completed last week, but the LNP won’t say if it will be made public.

Advocates warned people would die. Now we know someone has

An independent evaluation of Queensland’s now-closed pill-testing services was completed last week. There are many reasons why the LNP should make it public.

  • Courtney Kruk
Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto in The Bear. Season three ends with a preview of the review from the Chicago Tribune of Carmy’s new restaurant venture.

It takes guts to give honest reviews. But the food was expensive and made us sick

When I recently found myself questioning a 4.8-star rating, I realised my compulsion to be guided by the opinion of others had gotten out of hand.

  • Courtney Kruk
When a city hosts an Olympic Games, the whole word comes for the party.

The world is coming to Brisbane, and we’re all going to be ambassadors

For all the talk about stadiums, public transport upgrades and urban planning, there’s been scant mention of the most important Olympic preparation of all. Our own.

  • Cameron Atfield
The federal government has set an ambitious target to build 1.2 million homes over the next five years, with many of these homes to be apartments. However, Cities People Love says reports of small, dark and claustrophobic apartments are common.

$800 a week for that? The battle for better apartment design

Australian cities are building up. But are developers designing spaces that people actually want to live in?

  • Courtney Kruk
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The Story Bridge footpaths have been closed since March 5. The detour says to take the Kangaroo Bridge.

Here’s what walking the council’s Story Bridge footpath detour is really like

It is possible to take council’s detour since it closed the Story Bridge footpaths more than two months ago. But would you want to?

  • Felicity Caldwell
The northern end of the Story Bridge.

The Story Bridge is a Brisbane problem, but not a unique one

Brisbane’s iconic bridge needs major works, and questions around who will fund it point to bigger issues in infrastructure maintenance.

  • Courtney Kruk
Ricardo Bolvaran, pictured with the two youngest of his three children prior to his imprisonment.

As Dutton conceded election defeat, my thoughts were with Ricardo

The cruel practice of deporting people to countries to which they have no connection must end. Dutton’s departure might just bring that a little closer to reality.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Boys from four schools were asked to submit questions too awkward to ask

Brisbane schoolboys were asked to submit the questions they wanted answered. The result: a new app that gives them advice on relationships, respect, sex and consent.

  • Courtney Kruk

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