There’s something parents don’t talk about, a silent epidemic some aren’t even aware of, so I’ve decided in this column I’m coming clean for all of us. I’ve uncovered a curse that affects mums and dads, it’s fast, it’s vicious. It’s the circle of judgement. Beware anyone who dare enter the ring for you are […]
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Published April 2025 Racing Queensland has been unlawfully providing paid parking at their Albion Park Paceway site for around a decade, Brisbane City Council has confirmed. The organisation has been using paid parking provider Secure Parking to charge customers who parked at the site, despite not having council approval for providing carparking as required by
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Published April 2025 Premier David Crisafulli announced his venues plan for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics on March 25, including the decision to build two massive stadiums over heritage-listed Victoria Park / Barrambin. The main stadium would be located on the Herston side of the park and a National Aquatics Centre and Precinct on the Spring
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Published April 2025 A former German-US Major League Baseball player who now coaches in Brisbane is taking a swing at a legacy that empowers young baseball players with his own batting glove range. Donald Lutz III developed the range from his many years of experience wearing different batting gloves, and his personal touch is written
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Published April 2025 Everyone’s favourite jazz standards, plus a few lesser-known gems to keep us on our toes, filled the air by the river at the Brisbane Jazz Club (BJC) on a Wednesday evening in March. Helmed by vocalist Shelby Rose, the marvellous Ashley Hutton on sax, along with Ethan Coleman on keys, Aaron Ma
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Published April 2025 A window into the past has been opened in Teneriffe with the installation of a mural to pay tribute to the suburb’s wool-shipping history, the legacy project of the Teneriffe Progress Association (TPA). TPA President Ben Pritchard said: “This would have been a loading dock back in the day, so what I
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Published April 2025 Shaking hands with Dean Merlo at the New Farm Bowls Club as they announced a funding promise if the LNP win the election, Trevor Evans seems a man of action. Standing alongside LNP Member for Deakin, Michael Sukkar, and Brisbane City Councillor Vicki Howard, Evans commits $550,000 to the bowls club for
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Published April 2025 Federal Greens Member for Brisbane Stephen Bates sums up his hopes for this election’s outcome with what he calls “incessant positivity”. “I think there’s a real world where we get to the end of 2025 and we have a minority government, where we are passing bills that get dental into Medicare
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Published April 2025 Spending the morning doorknocking in Windsor, Labor candidate for Brisbane Madonna Jarrett’s key message to residents is the vast difference between Labor and the LNP’s stances on health and energy. We had first stopped in at Our Space for a coffee, a pottery studio and café in Wilston which Jarrett and her
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Published April 2025 Entering politics after 30 years in business, the question local chartered accountant Stuart Fraser is asked most often is – why? “Dad moved into the city, after farming out west, and ended up in politics later in life,” said Stu Fraser, LNP Senate Candidate for Queensland (pictured). “He always said if you
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