Government
From COVID to cops? Fate of abandoned quarantine site ‘sad and absurd’
Brisbane’s lord mayor is among those slamming the decision to convert the $400 million Pinkenba quarantine facility into an AFP training hub, rather than using it to shelter the homeless.
- by Courtney Kruk
Latest
Why a reluctance to disclose is hurting Queensland’s diversity targets
Queensland has failed to reach this ambitious target, but advocates say there are myriad reasons that public servants might not disclose.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Perspective
Perspective
We all lose under Queensland’s winner-takes-all political games
Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes. And there are few less-practised areas in Queensland politics than collaboration, as the youth justice blow-up shows.
- by Matt Dennien
Updated
For subscribers
Steve Gollschewski named as Queensland’s new police commissioner
The police veteran of 44 years has been appointed to the top job after a two-month search to fill the early departure of his predecessor, Katarina Carroll.
- by Matt Dennien
Troubled forensic lab’s DNA backlog blows out to 41,000
The backlog of cases at a forensic DNA lab has increased to more than 41,000 as Queensland’s opposition calls for a strategy to address the beleaguered service.
- by Fraser Barton
Govt has ‘eroded’ Brisbane’s 11-year Olympic runway: Paris ’24 and LA ’28 consultant
There’s time to get the Games right, he says, but Brisbane’s advantage from an 11-year lead-up has been affected by the lack of an independent delivery authority.
- by Cameron Atfield
Exclusive
Casinos
Star has weeks to prove progress on planned Qld fixes. But you can’t see them
The casino giant stares down licence suspensions in Queensland amid a second grilling in NSW, tied to tightly held reforms partially obtained by Brisbane Times.
- by Matt Dennien
Perspective
Perspective
The big questions being raised around Queensland’s ‘Big Build’
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country, a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
- by Matt Dennien
Parliamentary committee accepts framework to decriminalise sex work in Qld
Twenty-five years after prostitution was legalised in Queensland, the industry will be decriminalised to improve the lives of sex workers.
- by Courtney Kruk
Molly the magpie to return home, but ‘owners’ can’t cash in
The Gold Coast couple who adopted an abandoned magpie will be reunited with their beloved bird, but will not be allowed to make any more money off the world-famous Molly.
- by Cameron Atfield
Molly the magpie to reunite with best mate
The friendship between a magpie and two English Staffies is set to be renewed after the Queensland government agreed to give a Gold Coast couple a licence to care for the native bird.
- by Cameron Atfield