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The boy was arrested in the area about 6pm. He will appear in Brisbane Children's Court after being charged with two counts of looting and one count of ...

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THE AFL confirms the NAB AFLW Round Nine match between the Brisbane Lions and North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos on Sunday, March 6, has been moved from ...

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Two weeks ago, the Queensland Premier turned the sod on a project set to take the state's home of rugby to the Olympics and beyond. On Sunday, it was under ...

Much of open-air South Bank, to host archery and some basketball, went under as well. (The only other Southern Hemisphere staging — Rio de Janeiro — took place in August 2016). Part of the argument for Brisbane to host the games, as laid out in the bid team’s own documents pitching to the IOC last year, was the weather: fewer than five days of rain on average across the month and temperatures in the low 20s.

Margaret Cook, a historian who wrote the book A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods, isn't quite as optimistic. While she speaks glowingly of the “lovely city” that has “a lot going for it”, she concedes land in flood zones could “ ...

“They can’t be in the middle of a city. “I’m not going to give advice to people on where they should or shouldn’t buy. A lot of people will be thinking, ‘well, is this going to be every 10 or 12 years?. “It’s too fresh in the mind. You just need to be very aware of your environment. I got through the last one but it’s just too much psychologically, I’ve just got to get out’. “We could move the more vulnerable people. They need to be in a place that most effectively catches the rain,” she said. “What do you think is going to happen?”, he commented to a news outlet. With climate change, potentially, they’re going to be more frequent and more intense. “People think you can build dams anywhere, seemingly. “Brisbane is an incredibly resilient city.

Riverside businesses are still counting the costs of the devastating flood, with a lucky few reopening on Wednesday, while others, including the Queensland ...

“The safety of our collections, the public and our staff is the focus, and no works of art are at risk,” she said. “Certainly I understand the impacts when it comes to working from home but at this point in time, the traffic is extreme on many parts or many roads around the city and so if you can cut down unnecessary travel, if you can work from home, this is the time to do it,” he said. “Due to significant flooding impacts across the Queensland Cultural Centre the site is closed until further notice,” she said. “The safety of our people, retailers and visitors to South Bank remains our priority right now. “The South Bank precinct is slowly recovering, with a number of our popular eateries, and retail outlets in the parklands and on Little Stanley and Grey streets now open,” he said. “We will be closed until further notice while we understand the full extent of the clean-up ahead,” management posted to social media.

A house located in a Brisbane flood-prone area has been sold for a whopping $1.8 million with 10 bidders competing for the property.

That was a good litmus test given where those markets are and what has unfolded weatherwise.” “Four sold, all with strong competitive bidding with four to 10 registered bidders. “In 2011, major flooding had not affected the region since 1974, and flooding of this nature was considered a once in a 100-year event,” she said. The energy, the confidence in the market was interesting to see. It was a similar story for weekend auctions, with seven properties already snapped up out of the 10 he was due to call. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom property in the riverside suburb of Graceville, in Brisbane’s west, sold for above the reserve price despite being on a street that was hard hit by the catastrophic 2011 floods in Brisbane.