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Good morning, welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog. Today we can expect a beautiful sunny day, with a maximum of 25 degrees.
In this morning’s local headlines:
A Russian-born Queensland businessman arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected Chinese Communist Party spy network allegedly acted as an intermediary to sell parts of SU-35 Russian fighter jets, it can be revealed for the first time.
Brisbane City Council plans to boost the number of homes in Alderley after the northside suburb was unveiled as the latest focus of the lord mayor’s precinct renewal program.
New questions are being raised about the Toowoomba-based psychiatrist whose conduct is one focus of a coronial inquest into one of Australia’s worst mass murders, the Bondi Junction stabbings.
Queensland’s LNP has called for state seats held by Labor and Katter’s Australian Party to be abolished, with two new seats to be created in the south-east, in a submission to the body redrawing the electoral map.
A newborn baby dying of low oxygen levels and a heart defect was treated by a paediatrician who thought the girl might have had a respiratory problem, a coroner has heard.
Meg Flaskett says her family hopes the inquest into baby Thea’s death will provide some answers.Credit: Darren England / AAP
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has renewed a push to allow drivers to turn left at some red lights in Brisbane, spruiking it as a practical solution to get traffic moving.
Brisbane City Council has revealed it will tap the private sector to upgrade and operate Riverstage, the inner-city’s largest music and events venue.
A single unsealed coal borehole in country Queensland is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of 10,000 cars each driving 12,000 kilometres a year – and it’s just one of 130,000 across the state.
Fatcow will this week become the first Queensland restaurant to serve imported Kobe beef, in the culmination of a months-long process to secure the exclusive product, but at $349 for a 200g steak, it won’t come cheap.
And as Titans veteran Kieran Foran prepares to hang up his boots after taking to the field for the 318th and final time, he has revealed his successor is already on the Gold Coast.
‘Inflated’ Pink Chairs, an art installation that has made waves in New York and Venice, has found a permanent home at the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane.
