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Brisbane Roar coach John Aloisi says club can challenge for A-League despite ...

A candid John Aloisi has opened up on Brisbane Roar's nightmare A-League off-season, revealing he was kicked out of the club's former training base Ballymore on his first day as coach. But the Socceroos legend says he has placed his trust in embattled ... >> view original

Brisbane shooting at Red Rooster

Police on the scene of a shooting outside a Brisbane Red Rooster outlet. Picture: 7 News Queensland. A MAN has been taken into custody over the shooting that took place at a fast food restaurant at Clayfield yesterday. Police said that they were ... >> view original

Aloisi: Roar in A-League title contention

New coach John Aloisi has addressed Brisbane Roar fans on the eve of the 2015-16 A-League season, declaring that the Queensland club will challenge for the title, despite off-field issues. In the season opener on Thursday night, twice A-League ... >> view original

Queensland man charged with weapons offences following Brisbane shootings

Yesterday afternoon, a 30-year-old Bowen Hills man turned up at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital yesterday with a gunshot wound. Police allege he had met another man in the car park of the Clayfield Red Rooster outlet, only to be shot when an ... >> view original

Campbell Newman biography: Handful of book shops refuse to stock book

Fiona Stager from Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane said the loss of the Literary Award was a blow to her and the industry. She said her bookshop would not be stocking the book, while the author of the book, ex-Liberal National Party MP Gavin King, said ... >> view original

Former Brisbane Lions footballer Jason Roe pleads guilty to selling cannabis ...

The Darwin Magistrates Court heard the 31-year-old, who played 50 AFL games for the Brisbane Lions before joining the Territory Thunder NTFL club, bought 756 grams of the drug from co-accused Sammy Robert James Wright in five separate meetings ... >> view original

Brisbane grandmother Yvonne D'Arcy celebrates High Court victory in battle ...

A two-time cancer-surviving grandmother from Brisbane has won her "David and Goliath" battle against a US biotech firm that wanted to patent the BRCA-1 cancer gene. Myriad Genetics had argued it held the patent over the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes ... >> view original

Brisbane Mayor lets his freak flag fly

The Cowboys flag will fly from the top of the iconic Brisbane structure following a small wager between the mayors of Brisbane and Townsville. Prior to the weekend's grand final Lord Mayor Graham Quirk promised Townsville's Mayor Jenny Hill he would ... >> view original

Brisbane's 130-metre Spire apartments to rise after setting June sales record

"I think when the market says 'enough', then obviously things will slow down, but at the moment Brisbane's price point is very attractive (compared with Sydney and Melbourne)." Cr Quirk said Spire and other developments of its ilk were the only option ... >> view original

Brisbane Roar signs another Spaniard - SBS

Hervas rounds off Brisbane's impressive foreign contingent for the season, which also features midfielder Corona, Costa Rican striker Jean Carlos Solorzano and German pair Jerome Polenz and Thomas Broich. Sao Paolo born winger Henrique, 30, will ... >> view original