‘National emergency’: Thousands march in Brisbane to protest violence against women
Women demand men take responsibility for savage increase in toxic masculinity, arguing men have killed 33 women in domestic violence outbreaks since 2024 began.
- by Tony Moore
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Police stage sad, quiet recreation of fatal Brisbane bus turn
Police staged a quiet recreation of the bus turning from Ann Street into Edward Street as part of their investigation into the bus crash that killed 18-year-old Tia Cameron on March 8.
- by Tony Moore
‘Like a civil war’: The real Battle of Brisbane that pitted allies against each other
Over two days, American and Australian troops used batons, broken furniture, knives, guns, broken bottles and fists to settle scores.
- by Tony Moore
The viral candied fruit recipe sending kids to hospital
“It is not just melting the sugar, it is also melting the plastic containers,” one Queensland burns specialist says. “You can just see a disaster coming from that.”
- by Tony Moore
SEQ western suburbs rail hits the brakes despite population growth
There are no plans for new trains on a major rail line even after the number of passenger trips doubled in the past decade and jumped 39 per cent in the past 12 months.
- by Tony Moore
Hole lotta love could turn this quarry into a ‘South Bank’ by 2032
An internationally prominent urban planner believes a plan to rejuvenate Mount Coot-tha Quarry should be a project of state significance. And it can be ready by the Olympics, he says.
- by Tony Moore
Tennis bosses court Games organisers for more nets in Brisbane
With the Brisbane International regularly selling out, an expected 44 per cent more matches for the Olympics could be too much for the Queensland Tennis Centre.
- by Tony Moore
SEQ’s new ‘Gateway to Straddie’ in doubt as Walker abandons Toondah Harbour
Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters wants the state government to upgrade Cleveland’s Toondah Harbour, while protecting endangered wetlands, rather than leaving it to the private sector.
- by Tony Moore
Gold Coast police searched Bondi Junction killer for knives in December
The Queensland man who fatally stabbed six people at a shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi Junction was itinerant and living out of his car with history of mental illness, police say.
- by Tony Moore
Harbour project set to be scaled back in bid to placate critics
The company behind the Toondah Harbour project will attempt to redesign the marina and apartment complex after being told it posed an unacceptable risk to the environment.
- by Tony Moore
Toondah Harbour project set to be rejected out of concern for birds, bay
The project – which would have seen the construction of thousands of apartments – has been found to pose an unacceptable risk to “rare, unique and important” wetlands.
- by Tony Moore