Good morning and welcome to Brisbane Times’ live news blog, for Monday, September 22. Today we can expect a sunny day with a maximum temperature of 28 degrees.
In this morning’s local headlines:
Queensland Health will aim to shave $50 million from its budget over the next seven years of workforce growth by moving staff in three Brisbane offices onto a new hot-desk arrangement.
Emergency crews at the M1 crash scene.Credit: Nine News
An infant boy was killed after the vehicle he was in was struck by a Toyota Hilux while parked alongside the M1 on the Gold Coast.
A call – from his own side of politics – for Premier David Crisafulli to “sort out” coal royalties in Queensland earned enthusiastic support at an annual gathering of Australian conservatives on Saturday morning. However, a day later, the premier insisted he would keep a pre-election commitment to maintain the status quo.
Still on the LNP and wider federal Coalition ructions, Brisbane Times news director James Hall writes that two recent speeches by Crisafulli and Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner appear to show the pair’s frustration with the internal culture war gripping their party following May’s federal election loss.
Artist and former Labor candidate for the Gabba Bec Mac has a plan to save Brisbane’s nightlife with daylight saving, 2am bubble tea, art and women.
And Brisbane muralist Gus Eagleton’s “exceptionally accomplished” painting of Fintan Magee has been awarded this year’s Brisbane Portrait Prize.
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