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🔮 A pre-feasibility report into a privately funded stadium for baseball and softball will go before Logan City Council this week, continuing Mayor Jon Raven’s push for the diamond sports to be held in the city during the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
🔮 A heritage-listed Fortitude Valley church precinct could be transformed under plans for a new eight-storey commercial office building to sit alongside the historic St Patrick’s Church.
🔮 A consortium consisting of BESIX Watpac and John Holland was selected as the sole applicant in the final stage of contractor negotiations on Wednesday, all but guaranteeing it would build Brisbane Stadium.
CFMEU Queensland branch executive Jared Abbott said that also guaranteed his union’s involvement in the project, which would have political oversight by Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie – the CFMEU’s most vocal critic within the Crisafulli government.
“Unionised workers built the Sydney Olympics, redeveloped the MCG, and constructed every major sporting arena in Queensland.
🔮 The Redlands-based Community Alliance for Responsible Planning appealed to federal Environment Minister Murray Watt in June, with what alliance president Lavinia Wood said was expert evidence the project could be devastating to the local koala habitat.
🔮 “People have said to me, ‘You know, you can make a motza out of this,’ which you probably could if you really wanted to be hard-headed and pull in some big-shot lawyers – and if you had the money to back you up,” Kershaw said.
🔮 Rockhampton could host more than just rowing for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the Central Queensland city making a pitch to host more events at its new stadium.
🔮 Unions have been bargaining in the Fair Work Commission since May, and services were cut to the equivalent of a Saturday timetable to allow QR to cope with a maintenance backlog.
🔮 “I make the observation that it does, however, provide the certainty for us to be able to move forward and deliver exactly what we said we would do, which is rowing here [in Rockhampton].”
🔮 “GIICA will now finalise the investigations to deliver the PVR to government in the coming months with concept design well advanced at 80 per cent complete,” an animated Bleijie told parliament.
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