Queensland’s health worker shortage is worsening, with new analysis showing up to 50 per cent shortfalls across specialised roles in the regions and one in five of the state’s workforce reaching retirement age.
Tree-lined streets and walkways should connect Brisbane’s Olympic and Paralympic Games precincts to showcase the city’s liveability to the world, a new green places plan by architects reveals.
The architects behind Perth’s Optus Stadium have been locked in to design Brisbane’s Olympic stadium at Victoria Park, with Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie revealing the 63,000-seat venue could expand in capacity.
Toowoomba’s hosting of equestrian Olympic events might soon rival the rowing in Rockhampton as the biggest controversy of the Brisbane 2032 masterplan.
The international equestrian boss’s warning to Queensland that he was yet to approve its Olympic venue has been dismissed by the state government, which says the sport will be held in Toowoomba “no ifs or buts”.
Media whisperer Chris McMahon appears to have executed one of the cleaner political exits in recent memory, quietly slipping out of Minister Amanda Camm’s office just before her personal life detonated across state politics.
