Brisbane, Australia

The rise of the TV chef has helped fuel the current restaurant climate where the barriers to entry have never been easier. Brisbane property rents are at an all time low, as are interest rates, helping many realise their entrepreneurial dream of restaurant ownership. But the Brisbane market is especially fickle ...

Brisbane Uber driver fined after asking how customer had sex. 27 April 2018 ... A Brisbane Uber driver who questioned how a lesbian passenger had sex has been fined $300 and avoided conviction. ... The 46-year-old instead pleaded guilty in Brisbane Magistrates Court to causing a public nuisance.

Brisbane petrol prices have hit local highs for the fourth day in a row and remained the most expensive in the nation amid a global oil shortage and a lack of competition. City motorists paid an average of $1.55 per litre for unleaded on Wednesday, according to the Motormouth website. It was the fourth ...

Payne Haas is the smiling, silent assassin Sam Thaiday wants Brisbane to build their forward packs of the future around, as the club moves to head off rivals ready to offer top dollar for the boom teenager. Haas had punters and pundits alike raving after his 20-minute debut cameo against the Rabbitohs on ...

At the conclusion of the parade, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk will hand the keys of the City to Fearnley, who will receive them on behalf of the team. “Our athletes have worked incredibly hard for the fantastic results they achieved at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games,” Cr Quirk said. “There's no ...

Brisbane have also announced the re-signing of Jack Hingert, who will now play his eighth year the club. “Matt is not only the club captain but the heart and soul of our football team," said coach John Aloisi. “Jack is a loyal servant who loves the club. His experience and presence is an important ingredient ...

Brisbane has suffered an expected blow in their quest to rejuvenate an ageing squad, losing promising fullback Corey Brown. The versatile defender, who also played centrally at times due to Brisbane's injury-ravaged squad, has departed the club. Brown, who was awarded the 2017 Gary Wilkins medal at ...

He told the court he and his Russian wife Anastasia Ivanenko, 39, were arrested in Brisbane on March 15. The couple and their children moved to North Lakes in Brisbane's north from Sydney three months ago, he told the court. Al Salah, who said he changed his name to Alan Sawyer in 2006, and his wife ...

House and unit prices have fallen again in Greater Brisbane as the pace of annual growth slows to a five-year low. Greater Brisbane's sluggish performance, as revealed in the latest Domain Group's quarterly house price report released on Thursday, shows median house prices have fallen by 0.6 per cent ...

A 7KM stretch of Gympie Rd has emerged as the most dangerous section of road in Brisbane and is a recipe for crashes, according to the RACQ. Three sites along a stretch from Kedron to Aspley on the city's northside recorded the three highest crash totals since January, 2015, according to RACQ data.

It's time for Brisbane v Melbourne at the Gabba and the Dockers and Bombers at Perth Stadium on Easter Saturday. Earlier, the Magpies fall just short against the Giants and the Suns win over Carlton. Get scores, stats and streams in our live ScoreCentre.

But some Jeff Garlett magic helped the Demons hold on to a 14.16 (100) to 10.14 (74) AFL win over a gutsy Brisbane at the Gabba on Saturday night. A week after letting victory against Geelong slip through their grasp with Max Gawn's late miss, Melbourne again looked shaky when the Lions hit back from ...

From being lumped in with graffiti and vandalism, to be given its very own festival - Brisbane street art has come a long way in recent years and there are plenty of local success stories to emerge from the evolution. Russell Fenn, also known as Sofles, started in the River City but has gained an international ...

There was no sense of irony as Peter Harburg spoke to journalists, telling them "I am Blackjack". Harburg has grown used to winning Queensland's premier yacht race, the Brisbane to Gladstone, with his crew claiming line honours for the seventh time early Saturday morning. Fast conditions and a new ...

Brisbane lord mayor Graham Quirk has admitted residents still needed to be informed about what the $944 million largely ratepayer-funded Brisbane Metro was. On the back of Tuesday's announcement that the metro had been listed as one of the six “high-priority” projects by Infrastructure Australia, ...

The Queen's Baton has made one of its final stops before the Commonwealth Games, winding its way through Brisbane. After a marathon 95-day journey, some of Queensland's champions carried the Queen's message today. Giann Rooney told 9NEWS carrying the baton made her feel a “huge part of the ...

A man is in an induced coma in hospital after being repeatedly punched in the head outside a Brisbane pub last night. The 22-year-old remains in a critical condition in Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital after the attack outside the Narangba Valley Tavern about 11.30pm. Police allege two men became ...

Ms Smith described how she was running through a park in the suburb of Redbank Plains, in Brisbane's southwest, when she was approached by two women — who she claims were of African descent. The Queenslander claims that they were yelling abuse at her as she ran, so she decided to ask them ...

Brisbane is preparing to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay ahead of the Commonwealth Games, with less than one week until it tours the streets of Brisbane. Roads across the city will be temporarily shut and bus routes delayed as the baton travels from Brighton to Sherwood on Friday March 30, and then ...

Parts of Brisbane's Eagle Street will be ripped up and transformed into a large public space if a new $1.4 billion proposal is approved. One of Australia's biggest commercial property companies, Dexus, wants to transform the Eagle Street Pier into a new waterfront hub, with two new towers and about 1.5 ...

Elizabeth Jane Maranda, 35, appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court after last night being charged with assault occasioning bodily harm of the driver on December 19, 2016. Police allege the woman got onto a bus on the corner of Saint Pauls Terrace and Union Street with another woman at 10.50am ...

Brisbane teacher on child sex charges. A man has been charged with indecently dealing with a number of children while working as a teacher in Brisbane nearly two decades ago. Stuart Layt. Australian Associated PressMarch 23, 20186:20pm. A Brisbane man has been charged with indecently dealing with children nearly ...

The Brisbane City Council voted Thursday to begin preparing a November ballot measure asking residents whether or not to permit up to 2,200 homes and four million square feet of commercial development on the mostly vacant 684-acre Baylands site. Despite conceding ground with the vote, ...

With Brisbane's market on the rise, the savviest of buyers are starting to zero in on 600 square metre sites with development potential. It's all because of the new City Plan, which according to experts, allows for subdivision of 600 square metre sites that are within 200 metres walking distance of a railway ...

The Brisbane Broncos have never lost to the Wests Tigers as a joint venture at Campbelltown, but a victory against the odds on a cold winter's night 16 years ago defines what it means to pull on the famous jersey. In a season where the Broncos celebrate 30 years in the big time and as they prepare to play ...

OUCH! Embattled Brisbane bean counter and horse racing tragic Craig Morrissey has just suffered a heck of a blow from the accounting industry's peak body. In a nutshell, he's been kicked out of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand for “egregious and intolerable conduct'' and forced to pay ...

Three Brisbane blokes are charging ahead in the lucrative electric car market despite Queenslanders being slow to adopt the global trend. There are less than 500 electric cars in Queensland, but Tritium - established by three Brisbane university students about 16 years ago - is producing about 1800 ...

While the sale has yet to appear in public records, the brokers who handled the off-market deal announced over the weekend that the home on Sutherland Avenue, Ascot, an affluent suburb of Brisbane, the capital of and most populous city in the state of Queensland, was sold and that the sales price of ...

TWO men have been charged after allegedly kidnapping and torturing another man for ransom in Brisbane's south. The two allegedly held a 40-year-old man against his will in a Broadwater Rd unit at Mount Gravatt, where it's alleged he was attacked during the day, hit with a gun and forced to organise a ...

Perhaps most offensive to Brisbane residents was discussion of a draft bill seeking to mandate housing development at the Baylands. Though the legislation was not formally proposed last year, locals fear the effort may be resurrected if some residential development at the site is not approved.

Experts warn Brisbane could be in the impact zone of an out-of-control Chinese space station that's days away from blasting back into the Earth's atmosphere. For the past few weeks, the descent of the Tiangong-1 space lab has been tracked by space authorities, reports Live Science. Now some experts ...