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Near the spot a new stadium is planned for the 2032 Olympics and beyond at Victoria Park in Brisbane.

Olympic legislation to steamroll planning laws

Opponents of Brisbane 2032 Olympic venues planned for inner-city Victoria Park have vowed to keep up the fight, as the Queensland government introduced legislation on Thursday designed to steamroll planning laws that could hold up the projects.

  • Cameron Atfield

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An Energex technician working to restore power after a storm on the Gold Coast.

Regulator approves higher electricity charges in Queensland

Homes across Queensland will pay more in their electricity bills to maintain power lines after the state’s network operators were cleared to raise the maximum revenue they can recoup.

  • Nick Toscano
Properties in some of the most sought-after streets in Brisbane and the Gold Coast could be seized after a long-running tax dispute.

The state government tried to seize Ted Amos’ multimillion-dollar properties. So he claimed they were in trust

For more than a decade, the Brisbane property mogul has been locked in a battle over unpaid land tax and court costs with the Queensland government.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Sean Parnell
The state government has promised a review into the construction industry as the first step in its plan to reinvigorate Queensland’s construction industry amid a spate of big builds.

Queensland Productivity Commission begins work, as hospitals get ‘rescue plan’

The commission was tasked with a construction industry review on Thursday, with the government also promising a future for flailing health sector upgrades.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
The Queensland Police Union wants wanding to be allowed at any time, without authorisation, in places such as the Queen Street Mall.

LNP accused of taking crime crackdown too far

The Crisafulli government wants to make it easier for police to search people, but a growing number of stakeholders are concerned about the loss of freedoms.

  • Sean Parnell
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Review slams plans, budgets for flawed Queensland hospital projects

At one construction site, an impasse over a tree is costing $54,000 a day. At another, no-one realised the entire power system would have to be upgraded.

  • Tim Arvier
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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and his predecessor Steven Miles

Crisafulli flies high, while Miles – and Dutton – lag

Queenslanders have given Premier David Crisafulli an emphatic tick of approval, but federal counterpart Peter Dutton is not basking in his afterglow.

  • Cameron Atfield
The man was attacked with a machete outside his Camp Hill home.

‘Taking advantage’: Loophole uncovered in incentive scheme offering cash payments to Qld police recruits

A multimillion-dollar incentive designed to boost frontline police numbers was rolled out with a major loophole, enabling new recruits to accept cash payments and then leave within months.

  • Abbey Geran
Queensland Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski wanted a broad-ranging internal review.

‘Low morale, decreasing trust in leadership’: Top cop’s stark warning

Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski detailed his concerns about the force in text messages to the minister’s office, which inexplicably had his name saved as “Golschescsky”.

  • Sean Parnell
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Where the wild things are: The danger that can’t be tamed on K’gari

A young boy was mauled to death by dingoes in 2001. Strategies to manage the island’s native predators have shifted drastically in the years since, but millions of tourists are still at risk.

  • Courtney Kruk

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