Council election
Brisbane needs 90k new homes by 2031. How would a new council do it?
With a deadline three years after the next election, much of the heavy lifting will need to be done by the next class in City Hall – whatever its shape.
- by Matt Dennien and Tony Moore
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Parties spend up big in Brisbane City Council election campaign
Queensland’s two major political parties have spent almost $2 million each in their attempts to win over Brisbane voters.
- by Matt Dennien and Cameron Atfield
Perspective
City council
How one Brisbane community is engineering its own flood response
After the 2022 floods, West End resident and engineer Adrian Sains banded together with other local experts to mitigate future inundation.
- by Courtney Kruk
Perspective
City council
Five wards to watch this Brisbane City Council election
If your idea of a fun Saturday night is watching election returns, this weekend’s poll offers some intriguing match-ups.
- by Cameron Atfield
New bridge in Brisbane’s west slips off council election agenda
The major parties are not promising any new Brisbane River crossings, and they have mixed views on how to keep the city’s traffic moving.
- by Tony Moore
How the lord mayoral candidates would fix Brisbane’s bus system
If the LNP retains control of City Hall, more than 54 per cent of bus commuters would have faster journeys under changes to accommodate the new Metro.
- by Tony Moore
Perspective
City council
There’s been a lot of trash talk this election, but all I got was a free food-waste bin of shame
Taking out the trash is not a fun chore, but Labor and the LNP have been spending an inordinate amount of time rubbishing each other’s garbage-collection policies.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Schrinner’s Metro achieves rare milestone – backing from the Greens
Campaigning for re-election, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner nominates the Metro as Brisbane’s most important transport project. His rivals are split on the idea.
- by Tony Moore
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Brisbane’s hopeful mayors were handed a spotlight. How did they use it?
As 200-ish political, business and community leaders picked at their convention centre plates, the questions candidates asked each other were maybe the most telling.
- by Matt Dennien
What is the truth behind the bin fight in the Brisbane council campaign?
Labor is promising regular food waste bin collections but the LNP is warning that would leave general waste to fester. An expert suggests something is missing.
- by Tony Moore
What 20 identical questions revealed about Brisbane’s would-be lord mayors
The importance of keeping rates low separates the three main candidates for Brisbane lord mayor.
- by Cameron Atfield