“I think he panicked,didn’t really know what to do,drove around for a short time,decided to burn the vehicle out and then,believe it or not,went to work,” a detective acting inspector said.
The LNP,Labor and the Greens have made dozens of promises this council election. We have collated some of their main pledges on key issues.
The major parties are not promising any new Brisbane River crossings,and they have mixed views on how to keep the city’s traffic moving.
The five people – three of them teenagers – were injured during a crash at traffic lights in Upper Mount Gravatt early on Saturday.
Michael Watson laughs about it now but says his check-in at a Brisbane hotel just as water from a burst George St pipe was flooding the foyer was “probably the worst arrival” of his life.
Police and paramedics were called to the crash between a motorcycle and a car.
Long-prompted upgrades to a notorious pinch point in Queensland’s road network are in doubt because the funding formula has changed and the cost has blown out.
Transport Minister Mark Bailey concedes the busy stretch of riverfront should be used only with “real caution” but cycling and walking groups want hazards removed.
Brisbane residents have been asked to have their say on a proposed bypass tunnel that could ease congestion in the city’s north.
Hundreds of drivers have wrongly lost their licences as a result of the error,with Transport Minister Mark Bailey saying compensation questions were “reasonable”.
As Transurban’s grip on south-east Queensland looks set to tighten,it’s time the government did some squeezing of its own.