Matt Dennien | Journalist
Matt Dennien
Phone: +61 411 612 443
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21.01.2022 Coochiemudlo Island first pushed for the transit option about 7 years ago, garnering support from the Redland City Council, before being sunk by Queensland police. But tales of the stalemate were like a red rag to a bull for new resident Peter Rankin.
20.01.2022 K’gari/Fraser Island businesses say they lost up to $4m when last year’s bushfire forced a fortnight-long closure of the island, scorched more than half of it, and sparked a high-level govt review. But a request for disaster funding was knocked back because of a lack of infrastructure damage.
13.01.2022 One governance expert has described these figures as surprising, with the peak body for local government professionals suggesting the rare insight shows how much work is needed across the sector.
03.01.2022 Transport and Main Roads says it will release a secretive Bulimba-to-Teneriffe green bridge feasibility study to Brisbane City Council amid ongoing work to pin down the location of the council’s fifth new (proposed) inner-city river crossing.
03.01.2022 A side to this I feel has been a bit lost in the wash of corruption watchdog criticism: the dropping of fraud charges which led to the sacking of one of Qld’s largest councils has seen pressure heaped on the state govt to alter laws so the situation cannot happen again.
02.01.2022 New: After years of being courted to the city, Brisbane’s significant student housing sector has 1000s of recently built rooms left empty under what some say is an inflexible planning scheme and failure of governments to consult amid the pandemic downturn.
