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How to tackle Brisbane bottlenecks and safeguard drinking water in regional Queensland will be part of a review into the state’s long-term infrastructure strategy.

Creating jobs and driving down crime are overwhelmingly the top priorities across the state the Your Say 2020 survey has revealed, with Queenslanders crying out for a bold plan for...

Rail is critical to economic productivity and growth, industry experts say, even helping to protect us against future threats like COVID-19.

The Treasurer today released details of the Palaszczuk Government’s $13.9 billion infrastructure investment for 2020-21 as part of Queensland’s plan to support jobs and acceler...

Queensland has been snubbed in a plan to fast-track major projects. While NSW had eight job-creating works given the tick, the Sunshine State was given just one – and it’s caus...

South-east Queensland roads would be burdened with a massive increase in freight trucks unless the Queensland leg of the $9.3 billion Melbourne-Brisbane Inland Rail project is addr...

QUEENSLAND’S economic recovery is under threat from a state government move to cut back on private sector experts critical to some of the state’s biggest jobs generators.

Queensland should consider selling public assets to stimulate private investment as part of a suite of reforms to get the State's Economy back on track, peak industry bodies say.

As governments clamour to pump money into dormant projects and stir the economy out of the COVID-19 slump, they’ve been warned about “building for its own sake”. Here’s wha...

Small businesses are in line for $10,000 grants to help them survive the COVID-19 crisis as part of a massive package by the Palaszczuk Government to get the state moving again aft...

The State Government has been urged to release an economic recovery plan, with a call for more infrastructure and construction projects to keep people in jobs.

One of the nation's leading urban infrastructure thinkers has predicted major changes to the way Australians live, work and play as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Brisbane's proposed 17,000-seat indoor stadium over Roma Street Station is not economically viable, a Queensland government Audit Office report has found.

Almost $3 billion worth of projects sit on the drawing board across outback Queensland that could create jobs and transform the fortunes of hard-hit country regions and towns.

Queensland has $50b in new roads, rails, mines and other infrastructure in the pipeline for the next five years with major public sector works greenlit but private investment well ...

CALL FOR PRIVATE SECTOR TO STEP UP. Queensland has $50 billion in new roads, rail, mines and other infrastructure in the pipeline for the next five years with major public sector w...

Queensland has the chance to shore up the 32,000 jobs that rely on mining and energy generation by digging up the ingredients for renewables, a report produced state's biggest cons...

Queensland’s biggest construction companies and most influential infrastructure experts say they know how to save 32,000 mining and energy jobs.

Queensland has $23 billion in mega projects in the pipeline that will deliver 6600 new jobs. Only there’s one major obstacle, and it’s not the coronavirus.

Queensland risks coming to a grinding halt under a reputation of being a tough state for investing in infrastructure and a hangover of a five-year spending flatline on major roads ...

A Brisbane senior investment executive has been appointed the new boss of the controversial Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.

A QUEENSLAND 2032 Olympic and Paralympics would create a gravitational pull that would draw the best and brightest to our region, and open up our most lucrative market - China - in...

Business leaders have called for Queensland's potential bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Game to utilise existing infrastructure to prevent a cost blowout.

Annastacia Palaszczuk will look to the federal government and local councils to share the costs of hosting the 2032 Olympics with the state government.

The winners of this year’s QBM Griffith MBA Responsible Leadership Scholarship want to use their skills for greater good

A second runway at Brisbane Airport isn’t just good news on a passenger flight front. More flights means more cargo space, boosting flexibility for Queensland exporters and speed...

A new plan could see Australian drivers hit with a fee to use their cars on some of the country's busiest roads, however NSW and Victoria have flat-out rejected the idea.

$250m Qld public servant bonuses could have funded major rail projects It’s not only farmers who could have benefited from the $250 million doled out as bonuses to public servant...

The federal Infrastructure Minister will tell a business gathering in Brisbane today the shocking annual cost of the state’s substandard infrastructure — and how rapidly it’s...

The coming infrastructure boom in Queensland will require an army of skilled tradespeople to build bridges, roads and high-rise hotels. Who will be in demand and where?

THE latest instalment of the State Government's procurement policy could negatively impact safety at worksites and is just another layer of red tape, industry bodies have said.

The State Government has been slammed for delays on another major project which could jeopardise thousands of jobs.

Delayed environmental approvals for mining and rail projects are expected to contribute to a significant downturn in major infrastructure projects in Queensland.

A detailed study has concluded Queensland has a ‘compelling’ case to mount a bid for the 2032 Olympic Games, and our team of local experts agree.