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• Could the Gold Coast steal Brisbane's big rock gigs?

  

  AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson struts the stage at ANZ Stadium.Photo: Michelle SmithGold Coast's Metricon Stadium has put its case to host more major concerts after crowds expressed frustration at transport arrangements for this week's AC/DC concerts at the Queensland Sports and Aquatic Centre.This comes after buses from Nathan's QSAC were still ferrying passengers to the city 80 minutes after the concert.Metricon Stadium is just over 50 minutes by train from the Brisbane CBD.Metricon Stadium F..

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• Almost 100 cars involved in M1 'race' from Brisbane to Gold Coast - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Almost 100 cars involved in M1 'race' from Brisbane to Gold CoastBy Gail BurkeUpdatedNovember 14, 2015 16:04:48 An 18-year-old P-plate driver was allegedly clocked driving at speeds of more than 200 kilometres per hour (kph) in a convoy of up to 100 cars being driven in a road race on the motorway from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, police say.Queensland Police said their helicopter Polair spotted the vehicles on the M1 near Yatala, south of Brisbane, at about 10.30pm on Friday, with about 15 c..

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• Child sex abuse royal commission in Brisbane: Seven things we learnt

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Hollingworth 'washed his hands' of abuseFormer Brisbane St Paul's Headmaster Gilbert Case "couldn't recall" students' cries for help while Archbishop Peter Hollingworth had "washed his hands of the matter".PT2M21S620349After nine days worth of evidence from 29 witness, the question at the heart of the child abuse royal commission's latest Brisbane visit remains, who knew what and when?Paedophile school counsellorKevin John Lynch sexually abused dozens, if not hundreds..

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• Brisbane weather: Latest storm news for Brisbane and southeast Queensland | The Courier-Mail

  

  Brisbane weather: Latest storm news for Brisbane and southeast Queenslandby:Amy PriceFrom:The Courier-MailNovember 14, 20152:40PMMore severe storms expected for Queensland2:55At least 10 homes have been severely damaged after a supercell storm tore through a town west of Brisbane.THE Sunshine Coast was next in line for storm activity after a day of wild weather in southeast Queensland.The Bureau of Meteorology warned that at 2.25pm severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Kenilwo..

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• Funeral to be held for Brisbane schoolgirl - Yahoo7

  

  Hundreds of people have paid their farewells to murdered Gold Coast schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer."Today we honour a girl who was beautifully imperfect, who has touched each of our lives."Those words echoed through a small Gold Coast church on Saturday where heartbroken family, friends and school mates of Tiahleigh Palmer said their final farewells to the 12-year-old."She was a girl with lots of good qualities and a couple of short-comings but no different from the rest of us ... slightly imperfec..

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• Paris terror attacks: Brisbane’s Story Bridge to light up in solidarity | The Courier-Mail

  Paris terror attacks: Brisbane’s Story Bridge to light up in solidarityby:Melanie Petrinec, Jason TinFrom:The Courier-MailNovember 14, 20153:17PMParis hostage situation ends with scores dead0:53Officials say scores of people were killed inside Paris' Bataclan concert hall after gunmen held hostages inside, part of what President Francois Hollande described as an unprecedented terrorist attack across the city. Jillian Kitchener reports.BRISBANE’S Story Bridge will be lit up in red, white and blue..

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• H&M opens Wintergarden store in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall | The Courier-Mail

  

  Calm before the storm as H & M’s Queen Street Mall store readies yesterday for its grand opening. Pic: Wintergarden/InstagramBAD weather did not deter hundreds of eager shoppers from lining Queen Street Mall for the opening of Brisbane’s new H & M store this morning.Close to 1000 people braved the rain to get a first look at the shop, which is the third to opens its doors in Queensland.Shoppers started lining up from 9 o’clock last night, with 20-year-old Ivy Reynolds joining the queue i..

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• Brisbane's record new home building still surging

  

  Brisbane home building continues to surge, with record levels of new residential construction helping to revive the local economy.The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that 1033 houses were approved for building over September, which was the second highest monthly total for the year so far and well ahead of the 912 approved over August.In the first nine months of the year 8224 houses were have been approved for building,  which is a solid increase of 5.7 per cent or 446 more than the 7778..

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• A Chinese developer's first foray into the Australian property market...

  

  CHINESE developer R&F Properties' first foray into the Australian property market will be a $400 million, 30-storey residential complex in South Brisbane.

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  Brisbane-based AirSponge is a new website which connects car washers with dirty cars anywhere motorists may need a spruce up. Washing rates are offered ...

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