Brisbane news live: Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of grandmother Vyleen White; Victoria follows Queensland with ‘adult time for violent crime’ laws; Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal

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Liberal MPs arrive at parliament ahead of net zero meeting

By Brittany Busch

Liberal MPs have arrived at Parliament House after being called back from their electorates to Canberra to urgently discuss the party’s energy policy.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley did not respond to questions.

Manager of opposition business Alex Hawke said he would support Ley if she followed the National Party and dropped net zero during the party room meeting today.

“It’s a lot to ask one person to be our leader, and that person’s got to carry forward the team view,” he said.

“We ask one person to represent all of the members and all the views all of the time. So that’s a difficult job for any leader.”

Hawke, Ley’s numbers man, said there was already a lot of consensus in the party.

“We’re all concerned about the government’s cost of power and cost of power going up across the board. The party room’s there to discuss these things internally, not on camera.”

‘We still have federal laws’: Save Victoria Park campaigners reveal legal plan to stop Olympic stadium

By Dominique Tassell

Save Victoria Park campaigners have revealed they will take legal action in the federal court as soon as the bulldozers roll in to start building Brisbane’s Olympic stadium.

Campaigners gathered in Victoria Park in Brisbane’s inner-north this morning to celebrate its 150th birthday and protest “its imminent demise and death”.

“We’re celebrating the great vision of governments back in 1875 who said this should be the lungs of the city,” former deputy mayor David Hinchliffe, one of the leading campaigners, told ABC radio.

“And we’re also lamenting the lack of vision by a government, who says the only place in this great big beautiful city of ours where they can think to put a stadium is smack bang in the middle of a hilly … 150-year-old park.”

An image released by the Save Victoria Park group showing their fears of a stadium dominating the precinct.

Geotechnical drilling began last month to determine the best location for the 63,000-seat stadium for Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

“It’s a hilly park with a great big valley in the middle. In order to create two stadiums [including an Olympic swimming facility], not one, but two stadiums and an Olympic running track, they’re going to have to cut the top off the hill,” Hinchliffe said.

“They’re going to fill up the gullies, the valley, and it’s going to be an absolute mess.”

Hinchliffe said the moment there is “any suggestion of bulldozers moving in”, those against the development will take action in the federal court in a bid to have an injunction placed on the development.

While the project has been given exemption from 15 planning laws, including the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act, the Queensland Heritage Act, the Local Government Act, and the Nature Conservation Act, Hinchliffe said “we still have federal laws”.

“Those federal laws allow us and particularly the First Nations people of this area to take action in the courts,” he said.

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Third of voters want net zero gone as Coalition meets to decide position

By James Massola

Almost one in three Australians want the Albanese government to dump its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 on the eve of a Coalition meeting where it is expected to formalise its climate policy after months of infighting.

Almost half of those surveyed in an exclusive poll thought that Australia would not meet its 2030 emissions-reduction target of 43 per cent against 2005 levels.

The nation is set to fall short of the goal on its current trajectory, but 22 per cent still believed it would reach the 2030 target, while the other 29 per cent were unsure.

According to the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia is on track to reduce emissions by 42 per cent by 2030, 1 per cent short of the legislated target, though many experts warn Australia’s large-scale renewable energy projects have stalled, and the country will fall well short of the 43 per cent target.

Littleproud doesn’t say whether Nationals will stay in Coalition if Liberals keep net zero target

By Michelle Griffin

Keeping with the Liberal party room meeting for a moment …

Nationals leader David Littleproud has refused to say if his party would stay in the Coalition if the Liberals decided to keep a net zero target, saying on Sky News only that his role was to put his party’s position “with the how, not just say no, but what and how, which is what we have done with a cheaper, fairer, better plan”.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud.

Littleproud bridled at suggestions that ditching net zero meant the Nationals were climate deniers.

“The only argument Labor’s got at the moment, there is no intellectual argument against what the National Party’s put,” he said.

“They’ve reverted to pure old politics as saying that we’re climate deniers. That’s all the intellectual rigor they can bring to this debate. It shows this government is out of touch, and they’re going to spend nearly $2 billion on a conference to create a grandstand for Albanese to talk to the world.”

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Hume dodges question on whether Ley will survive as party leader

By Emily Kaine

Liberal senator Jane Hume has swiftly batted away the suggestion that today’s party room meeting was about Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s position, amid increasing rumours about the possibility of a leadership spill.

Asked whether today’s party room meeting was about net zero or Ley, Hume said:

“No, today’s meeting is about our energy policy. That’s the most important thing, our energy policy, and also our climate policy because Australians want a cleaner climate but they also want lower energy prices,” Hume told Nine’s Today program this morning.

But Hume appeared to dodge a question about whether Ley would survive as party leader.

“Sussan has been consistent from the very beginning that she wants to consult with her party, with her team, and make sure that we find our way forward, not Labor’s way forward. It’s not about adopting Labor’s way or abandoning Labor’s way. It’s about finding the Liberal way forward,” she told the hosts of Nine’s Today show this morning.

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South Bank gets a new outdoor music venue with Bernard Fanning, De La Soul and The Streets announced

By Nick Dent

The Cultural Forecourt in South Bank has been announced as the venue for On the Banks, a new outdoor concert series during March 2026.

De La Soul, Bernard Fanning, The Streets, Peach PRC and Marlon Williams are among the acts confirmed for the series.

Bernard Fanning will be performing for the On the Banks outdoor concert series.

The series will also include the debut of a one-day celebration of Punjabi music, food and culture called Blockbuster.

The concerts will take place next to the ‘Brisbane’ sign behind the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

Holding an outdoor concert series in March does not come without risks. March is historically the third-rainiest month in Brisbane, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. This year, many parts of south-east Queensland had their highest March daily rainfall on record.

Tickets for On the Banks are on sale from Friday, November 14.

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Findings missed in 38 patients in hospital imaging scandal

By Courtney Kruk

Dozens of patients are being called back for follow-up treatment after it was discovered their medical scans were not properly reviewed at Caboolture Hospital.

A major review of medical scans at Caboolture Hospital’s outpatient clinic has found 38 patients did not get follow-up care.

The hospital was first alerted to the problem in early September when a patient, who was unaware that they had advanced cancer, died.

The patient had scans at Caboolture Hospital’s Specialist Outpatient Department, but their images were not reviewed for five weeks.

The hospital initially admitted that up to 9000 patients could have been affected by similar errors.

However, in an update on Tuesday, the hospital conceded 21,491 scans needed to be reviewed.

Almost 14,000 scans were considered “high priority”.

“All 21,491 scans have now been reviewed and cleared by a team of specialists, with all affected patients contacted,” Metro North Health said in a statement.

Thirty-eight patients have been contacted for follow-up care since their scans were reviewed, it said.

Metro North Health has not revealed the details of the conditions or health of the 38 patients, citing patient privacy and confidentiality.

However, the hospital was reviewing scans from surgical, cardiac, respiratory and paediatric patients who were referred to the Specialist Outpatient Department and underwent imaging between April 1, 2023, and September, 4, 2025.

Metro North Health apologised to affected patients and said Caboolture Hospital had since “strengthened its processes to ensure a rigorous approach to medical imaging review is upheld by all clinicians”.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls said the review found no further deaths.

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‘Adult time for violent crime’: Victoria follows Queensland’s lead with slightly different slogan

By Kieran Rooney

Meanwhile, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is about to formally announce her government’s plan to follow Queensland’s “adult crime, adult time” laws.

Children as young as 14 could be jailed for life for violent crimes, including home invasions, carjackings and armed robbery, under Victoria’s justice reforms, which were approved by Victoria’s cabinet yesterday.

While Queensland Premier David Crisafulli adopted the slogan “adult crime, adult time”, the Victorian government has chosen the phrase “adult time for violent crime” to sell a tougher juvenile justice regime.

“We want the courts to treat these violent children like adults, so jail is more likely and sentences are longer,” Allan said after yesterday’s lengthy cabinet meeting, which also endorsed new protest laws.

“Adult time for violent crime will mean more violent youth offenders going to jail, facing serious consequences.”

Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of Qld grandmother Vyleen White

By Cloe Read

The teenager who pleaded guilty to killing a Queensland grandmother in a shopping centre car park will be sentenced today.

Vyleen White, 70, died after she was stabbed in the car park of a Redbank Plains shopping centre in February last year.

Vyleen White was fatally stabbed in February 2024.

Her death sent shockwaves through the community, and sparked outrage over juvenile offenders.

Earlier this year, the teenager, who cannot be named under Queensland law, pleaded guilty to her murder in the Supreme Court. He also pleaded guilty to charges of stealing and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

After he pleaded guilty, White’s husband told reporters outside court that the teenager was “playing god” and chose to kill her.

When asked previously about sentencing, Mr White said it should be “life for a life”.

We’ll be covering the story as the sentence is expected to be delivered at 10am.