A 32-year-old has been charged with serious vilification or hate crime and other offences but police say it is not being considered a terrorist incident
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Police have charged a man after a car was used to ram the gates of a synagogue in Brisbane.
Officers say the man was driving a Toyota Hilux utility when he knocked down the gates of the property in Margaret Street in Brisbane’s CBD shortly after 7pm on Friday.
Continue reading...BoM forecasts possible storms from tropical north and WA to central and eastern parts, with potential for strong winds and heavy rainfall
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Much of northern and eastern Australia faces a risk of severe thunderstorms on Saturday afternoon and evening, with millions of people potentially in the firing line.
“It’s another severe thunderstorm outbreak for eastern parts of the country. It could be an active one,” said Angus Hines, senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology on Saturday.
Continue reading...Max Belter, 18, had a document linked to ‘proscribed terrorist organisations’ on his electronic devices, police allege
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A teenager charged with terrorism offences has wept in court after violent extremist material and chemicals for explosives were allegedly found during a police raid.
Max Belter, 18, appeared in a green prison jumper in Brisbane magistrates court on Thursday after a joint terrorism taskforce searched his property at The Gap in Brisbane’s north.
Continue reading...Application lodged for permanent legal protection of Victoria Park, where state and federal governments plan to spend billions on sports infrastructure
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A First Nations group has applied to halt construction of the main stadium planned for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
The state and federal governments plan to spend $3.8bn on a 63,000-seat stadium at Victoria Park in inner-city Brisbane. It will host the opening and closing ceremonies and athletics events.
Continue reading...Flights delayed after ‘technical fault with a single metal detector’ but airport says there is no safety or security threat
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Passengers have been evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and flights have been delayed after a fault with a single metal detector prompted both travellers and staff to be re-screened by security.
Pictures on social media showed large crowds at the airport, with one person saying the “entire place has ground to a halt”.
Continue reading...Moreton Bay council agrees to supreme court injunction against evicting residents who had previously been evicted from another park
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Moreton Bay city council has been ordered not to clear a homeless encampment after a hearing in the Queensland supreme court on Wednesday.
Numerous homeless residents of Eddie Hyland Park in Lawnton were evicted by council rangers in April, with their tents cleared by heavy machinery. Just two were granted public housing. Most have set up a new camp in a different park in Kallangur.
Continue reading...Bridge that spans Brisbane River and includes solar panels and shade along its length hailed as a transformative piece of urban infrastructure
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The newest bridge spanning the Brisbane River – the longest cable-stayed pedestrian bridge in the country – has taken out top honours in the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Queensland awards.
A week after Sydney’s new network of city metro stations collected architecture’s most prestigious prize in New South Wales, Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point Bridge was lauded at Friday night’s award ceremony as another example of the significant value of state governments investing in architecture to realise major infrastructure projects that raise the bar beyond the realm of mere functionality.
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Continue reading...Cash-strapped council may seek to raise funds from rate-payers, state and federal governments, or road users to fix 85-year-old Story Bridge
When the ribbon was cut on Brisbane’s Story Bridge on 6 July 1940 it was not an auspicious time to open a new bridge.
Five days earlier, the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge had opened in Washington State.
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Continue reading...Graeme Davidson lived in Thailand for a ‘number of years’ and was arrested and charged with murder, fraud and attempted fraud while visiting Brisbane
Years after his wife died while kayaking, a man has been accused of murder and trying to claim more than $1m in life insurance.
Graeme Davidson, 55, who now lives in Thailand, was charged over the death of his wife, Jacqueline.
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Continue reading...The Mayhem tour’s ticketing agencies deny dynamic pricing has been implemented, but fans have complained prices are high and inconsistent
The little monsters are not happy. Lady Gaga fans have swamped social media to complain about exorbitant ticket prices for the pop star’s Australian concerts, with many speculating that dynamic pricing is involved – a claim the official ticketing agency for the Melbourne and Brisbane shows, Ticketmaster, has denied.
Off the back of her chart-topping album Mayhem, Lady Gaga is heading to Australia for the first time in 11 years, with Live Nation bringing the Mayhem Ball to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in December. Ticketmaster, which is owned by Live Nation, is responsible for the ticket sales in Melbourne and Brisbane. Ticketek is separately handling the Sydney show, because of its affiliation with Sydney venue Accor Stadium.
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Continue reading...PM reaches out to opposition leader as Brisbane teenager, 16, charged with commonwealth offence
The prime minister has reached out to Peter Dutton after allegations the opposition leader was the target of a terror plot.
A Brisbane schoolboy allegedly planned an attack involving the Coalition leader in the first half of 2024 before being arrested in August, according to News Corp.
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Continue reading...Police say David Mobbs was in ‘last stages of his life’ with motor neurone disease and had been in and out of hospital before his death
A pensioner has been charged with murder after being accused of administering a lethal dose of prescription medication to her terminally ill partner.
Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 50, was arrested more than a year after the death of David Ronald Mobbs, 56, at Alexandra Hills, in Brisbane’s south-east, in December 2023.
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Continue reading...The LNP’s vision is for an Olympics held in venues rather than a city – and guarantees controversy across Brisbane and beyond
Few people in Queensland disagreed with the former state premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, when she described plans for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane as a “hot mess”.
Tuesday’s announcement by the new LNP government was framed as an end to the sort of disarray that has plagued Olympic planning during the past four years.
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Continue reading...Body discovered with fatal stab wound at home in Brisbane’s north-west
A man will remain in custody after he was arrested at Brisbane airport and charged with murdering a 79-year-old woman whose body was found at a suburban home.
Emergency services were called to a residence on Chestnut Place about 4.20pm on Monday at The Gap in Brisbane’s north-west, Queensland police said.
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Continue reading...Despite premier David Crisafulli ruling it out during election, the government is expected to announce plans for stadium at Victoria Park
The Queensland government is expected to announce that a significant preserved site of Indigenous heritage in central Brisbane, a massacre site on a songline, will host the main stadium of the 2032 Olympics.
Premier David Crisafulli repeatedly promised not to build a new stadium to host the athletics during last year’s election, and also specifically ruled out building one in Victoria Park.
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Continue reading...The IOC – which gave us 11 years to plan – must be nervous about the state of affairs
The 2032 Olympic Games loom for Brisbane residents with equal parts promise and fear.
On one hand, there is the opportunity to write Brisbane’s name alongside some of the world’s great cities.
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Continue reading...Ticket holders for the Tuesday night concert at an outdoor riverside venue have complained about the decision to go ahead in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Live music promoters TEG Group and British band New Order are facing a public backlash after announcing they would go ahead with a scheduled concert in Brisbane as the city grapples with major flooding in the wake of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
The concert, part of the Manchester synth-pop pioneers’ Australian tour, is set to take place Tuesday night at Riverstage, a 9,500-capacity outdoor venue located on Brisbane river, within the city’s Botanic Gardens.
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Continue reading...BoM path track map predicts TC Alfred will cross coast on Saturday near Brisbane, the first storm of its size to do so in decades. Follow the latest updates today
Welfare recipients told to perform mutual obligations as cyclone bears down
We have a news story this morning about the impact the cyclone is already having on life in Queensland.
Fallen trees and giant stands of bamboo blocked the single road to our farm until the army and council brought heavy machinery to clear a path some time after.
We were without running water or power for days, maybe weeks, the packing shed a makeshift kitchen where we ate meals cooked off a gas barbecue and drank instant coffee made with rainwater and UHT milk to the hum of a generator.
Continue reading...BoM path track map predicts TC Alfred will cross coast on Friday near Brisbane, the first storm of its size to do so in decades. Follow the latest updates today
Speaking of preparations, adjunct senior lecturer at the Centre for Disaster Studies at James Cook University Yetta Gurtner gives advice here:
Chalmers confident insurance companies ‘know their responsibilities’
I’m confident they know their responsibilities and obligations to people.
Continue reading...Parts of Queensland and NSW prepare as BoM weather forecast shows Alfred making landfall between Maroochydore and Coolangatta
Schools, airports, public transport and most businesses are beginning to shut down in Brisbane and across south-east Queensland, as authorities advised Tropical Cyclone Alfred will likely arrive later than expected.
Advice to residents is now that Alfred’s track to the coast has slowed, and that it will likely cross the southeast Queensland coast at some point on Friday.
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