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1 week ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Felicity Caldwell |Catherine Strohfeldt
By Felicity Caldwell and Catherine Strohfeldt June 18, 2025 — 12.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brisbane City Council’s latest budget promises lower rates than other nearby councils, but you might be wondering what else is in the budget for you. We’ve picked out a few of the winners and losers.
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brisbanetimes.com.au | Catherine Strohfeldt |Felicity Caldwell
By Catherine Strohfeldt and Felicity Caldwell June 18, 2025 — 11.05am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Brisbane City Council has made green bins effectively free as it rolls out an opt-out green waste program for about 170,000 households and scraps surcharges in favour of a flat rate.
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1 week ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Felicity Caldwell |Catherine Strohfeldt
By Felicity Caldwell and Catherine Strohfeldt June 18, 2025 — 8.35am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced, via social media, that average rates will increase 3.87 per cent this financial year – the equivalent of $1.14 a week.
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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Marissa Calligeros |Nick Wright |Catherine Strohfeldt |Felicity Caldwell
Latest postsPinned post from By Marissa CalligerosBrisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced, via social media, that rates will increase 3.87 per cent this financial year – the equivalent of $1.14 a week. In a video posted to Facebook and Instagram a short time ago, the lord mayor said Brisbane’s rates would remain the lowest in south-east Queensland.
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1 week ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Catherine Strohfeldt |Felicity Caldwell
Pinned post from By Felicity CaldwellBrisbane City Council’s budget is no small fry – its $4 billion in spending last year was almost half that of the entire state of Tasmania. We’ll have reporters in the Brisbane City Council budget lock-up this morning, ready to give you all the roads, rates and rubbish news you need to know from 11am.
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smh.com.au | Felicity Caldwell |Anthony Segaert |Catherine Strohfeldt |William Davis
Pinned post from By William DavisOne person is dead and delays of more than an hour have been reported after an early-morning multi-car crash in Brisbane. The collision occurred on the Gateway Motorway near the Old Cleveland Road ramp in Belmont about 5am. Only one lane is open and QldTraffic is reporting significant delays along the entire motorway. “This incident is ongoing,” Queensland Ambulance said in a statement. Nine News reports one of the vehicle occupants has died.
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1 week ago | 
theage.com.au | William Davis |Catherine Strohfeldt |Rebecca Masters
It’s estimated more than 40,000 people are enslaved across the nation, subject to violence, threats, punishing hours, low pay, poor housing and restricted movements. Workers employed through the federal government’s the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme – which employs people from nine Pacific islands and Timor-Leste – were found to be sleeping on benches and lining up at soup kitchens in Bundaberg, in Queensland’s Wide Bay-Burnett region.
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brisbanetimes.com.au | Catherine Strohfeldt |Rebecca Masters
Pinned post from By Rebecca MastersAn off-duty police officer was allegedly attacked by a group of teenagers on a Gold Coast tram after he attempted to stop one of them verbally assaulting staff. Police say the 39-year-old senior constable had finished his shift and was travelling home on the tram just after midnight on Saturday when he saw a girl verbally abusing a staff member.
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2 weeks ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Felicity Caldwell |Catherine Strohfeldt
By Felicity Caldwell and Catherine Strohfeldt June 12, 2025 — 2.26pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There will be major changes to bus services in the Brisbane CBD over 10 weekends as part of testing for the new Adelaide Street tunnel, which will allow buses and Metro vehicles to drive through it for the first time later this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Amber Schultz |Cameron Atfield |Catherine Strohfeldt |Savannah Meacham
Updated June 12, 2025 — 6.02amfirst published at 5.22amSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeKey postsHide key postsGo to latestBrisbane commuters react to bus shake-upWe have been inundated with responses to our story about the changes to Brisbane’s bus network. The biggest shake-up of the city’s bus network in a generation will take effect on June 30.Credit: DomainThis is what commuters are saying:“Far from being improved, 2 of my bus services (375 and 385) will be worse.
