Julius Dennis is a reporter for Brisbane Times.
The local council has met with two developers pushing for a fast-tracked transformation from rural farmland to urban sprawl.
However, the mayor’s register of interests shows the US president’s business paid for him to stay at the resort shortly before plans for Trump Tower were announced, as well as covering other expenses.
Karen Williams did not step out of the council meeting as it voted on a developer’s housing project less than two years after she sold her family farm to the same developer.
This week in our Queensland public sector column, Public Circus takes a look at staff morale at Transport and Main Roads as well as Government House up in Paddington.
Dave Szabo describes the smell outside his dream home as like “boiling meat … sometimes with a mix of burning hair or sometimes almost like septic”.
The council gave 24 reasons for knocking back earlier plans, including that the build would have a negative impact on the native rainforest around it.
The media mogul’s real estate agents have pulled his luxury Melbourne penthouse, which police were called to on Thursday night, from sale.
“You wouldn’t think this could happen,” said one local who spoke to the family weeks before the incident.
Police believe 39-year-old Blake Seers had run from the house where the bodies of his partner and one-year-old daughter were later found.
Protesters cried and clashed with police as the Iranian women’s soccer team flew out of the country and into an uncertain future.