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Marissa Calligeros

Marissa Calligeros

Marissa Calligeros is a journalist at Brisbane Times. She was previously an editor at The Age.

Dashcam footage of the stolen Isuzu truck travelling the wrong way on the Bruce Highway.

‘Vigilante’ charged over fatal highway crash after chasing suspected thief

One of two drivers charged over a horrific, head-on crash was chasing a suspected scrap-metal thief the wrong way along the Bruce Highway.

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Developers say they have to build higher in order to make projects in Brisbane feasible.

‘Dead in its tracks’: Brisbane’s high-density push stalled by numbers that don’t stack up

Thirty-five per cent of future apartment developments remain at moderate to high risk of not getting off the ground within the next three years, a new report shows.

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An image of the goods for sale at the Stothard’s bake stall.

‘Someone just dobbed on a kid’: Lord mayor calls for common sense after complaint over cupcake stall

A resident complained to Queensland Health about the children’s roadside lemonade and cupcake stall in Stafford Heights.

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The offender walked free from Ipswich District Court on a suspended sentence last year.

Appeal judges question ‘exceptional circumstances’ that allowed rapist to walk free

Queensland’s attorney-general lodged an appeal after the man escaped jail time, despite being convicted of inflicting abuse on his younger sister over many years.

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The now-defunct Griffith University campus at Mount Gravatt.

School, pool saved as government sells off abandoned uni campus

The Crisafulli government has opened up the 42-hectare site for tender, but with strict conditions.

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An artist’s impression of the new Hilton Garden Inn, Ipswich.

Hilton hotel heads to Ipswich. But will it be built in time for the Olympics?

The new hotel will be built by the same developer behind the yet-to-be-completed Hilton Garden Inn in Brisbane’s inner-north.

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The young girl was pronounced dead at the scene, while the boy was rushed to Tara Hospital.

Girl, 5, dies after being thrown from off-road buggy on Queensland property

A five-year-old girl has died and a nine-year-old boy is in hospital after the rollover on a rural Queensland property.

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The water at Burleigh Heads can appear to be crystal blue. But looks can be deceiving.

The cleanest and dirtiest beaches in south-east Queensland revealed

Where have you been swimming this summer? We crunch the numbers on water quality at beaches and swimming spots from Rainbow Bay to Noosa Heads.

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The old Albion quarry, since replaced with suburban houses.

Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil found in a Brisbane suburb

As a Brisbane schoolboy, Bruce Runnegar unearthed a fossil in a suburban quarry. He kept it for 68 years, taking it with him all over the world, never imagining he was carrying something 230 million years old.

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Police at Yeppen Lagoon in Rockhampton after the alleged attack on the young woman.

Attacker ‘raped woman then tried to drown her’ in broad daylight

Following the “horrific, vicious” assault in the Central Queensland city, the alleged offender was arrested trying to make his way to Victoria, police say.

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