Brisbane City Council’s fleet of noisy river KittyCats will be given new mufflers after riverside residents complained the boats were too noisy.
We need to restore our floodplains and stop building in their path. Raising the height of Warragamba Dam will not keep many thousands of Sydney residents from danger.
The experience of living through the 2011 floods has made Brisbane a more river-attuned city in 2021,the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects says.
Brisbane's main water storage is at less 40 per cent this week. A decade ago during the flood,it was vastly different.
Two photographs 10 years apart tells the story of Grantham as Brisbane Times remembers the decade since the 2011 January floods.
Research has tracked the location of platypuses across Brisbane's waterways,finding some creeks no longer house the mammals.
Brisbane's floating restaurant,formerly Oxley's on the River and then Drift,is being restored. Now owner Ken Allsop hopes it will be open in December.
After minor repairs,the Bulimba to Teneriffe ferry will be back in action for the start of the working week,but the other eight cross-river ferries will require more TLC.
But construction of the $2 billion Dexus redevelopment of Eagle Street Pier could see it closed for two years.
Alternative transport arrangements in the form of extra CityCats and buses will replace the Cross River and City Hopper ferries from Monday,until further notice.
The trees were felled outside the Wheel of Brisbane to make way for the planned bridge's landing platform.