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Brisbane Live At Work: Wednesday May 1

Campbell Newman in state parliament.

Brisbane Live At Work: Wednesday May 1

Amber light for coal seam gas pipeline

CSG

Maddison Johnstone The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has approved a billion-dollar coal seam gas pipeline that will run from Bowen to Gladstone in central Queensland.

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Brisbane Live at Work: Tuesday, January 29

Billys

As flood waters swell throughout Brisbane, the city relives the horrors of 2011.

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Union to fight power asset sales

Fighting your power bill (Thumbnail)

Tony Moore and Marissa Calligeros Queensland’s electricty union has declared it will campaign against any sell-off of government-owned energy suppliers in the government’s marginal seats.

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Weather system bears down on Brisbane

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Photograph taken by Michelle Smith on Friday 25th January, 2013.
People dodge the rain on Friday afternoon in the Brisbane CBD ahead of a forecasted wet weekend.

Bridie Jabour Brisbane is bracing for suburban flooding this weekend, with up to 300 millimetres of rain expected to fall.

Brisbane's big wet

brisbane live weather

Keep up to date with all the latest news from Queensland's deluge.

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Brisbane Live: Monday, January 28

sandbags

All the latest news on the wild weather hitting southeast Queensland, and more.

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Joh's Stradbroke land-for-bridge plan

Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Tony Moore The Bjelke-Petersen government considered gifting 800 hectares of prime crown land on North Stradbroke Island to developers in order to build a bridge across Moreton Bay, a 1982 cabinet document...

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Thousands march against Newman budget

Protest.

Staff reporters Thousands of public service workers attended a series of co-ordinated protests against the Newman government's first budget.

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Miners seek to quell reef fears

The Great Barrier Reef off the north Queensland coast.

Daniel Hurst A mining industry lobby group has denied the Great Barrier Reef will become a “coal superhighway”, amid fallout from a United Nations report warning about the future of the World Heritage site.

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Nail gun drawn in neighbourhood feud

Emma Mcbryde A Vietnam War veteran's feud with his neighbour escalated when he armed himself with a nail gun and threatened to kill the man.

Dad dobs in drug cooking son

Kathryn Greensill When Bradley John Hansen's father discovered signs his son was cooking up drugs, he called the police.

Queensland's civil unions debate blow by blow

gay homosexual civil union

Daniel Hurst It's crunch time for a proposal to allow couples to register their relationships as "civil unions" in Queensland. brisbanetimes.com.

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Civil unions bill gets 'gold-plated arm chair ride'

Gay marriage

Daniel Hurst The Liberal National Party and independents have failed to prevent the debate on same-sex civil unions from going ahead in Queensland Parliament tonight, despite complaints the legislation had...

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Trust funds 'no Latham scheme'

Mark Latham

Daniel Hurst The Bligh Government has dismissed suggestions its child endowment fund proposal is similar to a policy championed by former federal Labor leader Mark Latham in 2002.

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Katter brings Australian party chatter show to the big city

Bob Katter

Tony Moore Bob Katter should have taught Queensland history when I was at school. It would have been passionate, loud and abrupt, opinionated, fun, full of laughs, facts, fantasy, shouting matches, the odd...

17, pregnant and off to jail?

Emily Blatchford A Queensland magistrate has opted to take a month to make a difficult decision on whether to send a pregnant 17-year-old girl to jail after finding her guilty of 16 offences.

Brother and sister struck down with meningococcal

Nate Barber, 3, and Gracie Eilola, 1.

Queensland mother Daniel Mackenzie has lived through one of a parent's worst nightmares - not once, but twice.

More planking charges laid

Georgia Waters Three people have been charged after they were reportedly seen 'planking' on the roof of a moving car in Toowoomba earlier this week.