Kangaroo Point Green Bridge Project Update – May 2021 Message from the Lord Mayor We’re getting on with the job of delivering the Kangaroo Point Green Bridge, which will transform the way people travel between Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and our city centre. Following consultation on the project’s draft reference design in late 2020, I am…
BAC Plans New $1 Billion Terminal
Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) has unveiled plans for a massive new $1 billion L-shaped terminal precinct located between Brisbane Airport’s two runways. BAC has shifted its planning and instead wants a new integrated world-class terminal that services both domestic and international operations, positioned between the two runways. A BAC spokesperson says that the terminal will…
Could the Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts precinct be giving Chevron Island a ‘new lease of life’?
John Pernell says HOTA and the green bridge are the catalyst for the revitalisation. (ABC Gold Coast: Julie Clift) It is no secret that Chevron Island on the Gold Coast has been on struggle street in recent years. In early 2020, it was described as a ghost town, and when COVID-19 took hold in Australia windows along the…
Federal Budget 2021: All the major property tricks for first homebuyers explained
First home buyers trying to enter Australia’s red-hot property market are set to be offered some relief under a number of new initiatives announced in this year’s Federal Budget. Despite property prices rising at the fastest month-on-month rate in 33 years, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the parliament that “under the Coalition, home ownership will always…
City Council Backs Brisbane Olympic Bid
He was the sole voice of opposition to Brisbane City Council’s bid to host the Olympics but Greens councillor Jonathan Sri is adamant the negative impacts outweigh the positive. The council’s confidential meeting this week included briefings from president of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) John Coates and the president of the Paralympics Committee Jock…
New pontoon at Howard Smith Wharves to boost river tourism
Minister for Tourism Industry Development and Innovation and Minister for Sport The Honourable Stirling Hinchliffe The first of three new floating concrete pontoons to be built for the Howard Smith Wharves River Terminal Project has been completed and is open for business. Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said the Palaszczuk Government was delivering infrastructure to re-energize…
