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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wonder how much of a falling out happened with Dow and the people who went off to form "Better Transport Queensland" i.e. the RBOT successor... There has not been a word from them at all concerning Robert's passing.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our view: the Toombul redo is effectively a green light for Brisbane Airport Corporation to negotiate with national retailers that won't be coming back to Toombul 2.0. This potentially now means a 24/7 Kmart on airport land at minimum is coming with Costco Brisbane Airport.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two key development applications have been submitted to BCC in the last 24 hours. -Irvine's plans for the Toombul rebirth. -Vicinity's plans for the new facades and awnings for the Uptown complex on the Queen Street Mall.

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Development.i provides you with access to past and current development application details and basic property information for the Brisbane City Council area.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile, lodged with BCC on the 30th of September: a completely new development scheme for the Regent/Wintergarden West site on the QSM. The a smaller Regent Tower proposal now shifted to the Wintergarden W footprint, with a residential/hotel tower for the Regent site. cc. @debritz.bsky.social

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Development.i

Development.i provides you with access to past and current development application details and basic property information for the Brisbane City Council area.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We believe we've found the first images of the upcoming Uptown redevelopment. Looks to be a attempt to go high end, with significant construction work on the Mall likely in order (the 1987/88 new-build facades (Myer entrance, and between the York Hotel and Newspaper House facades going)

Screenshot from Vicinity Capability showcase, 16/9/2026.

https://www.vicinity.com.au/assets/sb/f/129601/x/14a2f03e4b/capability-showcase-pres.pdf

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Could be some significant work ahead at Uptown on the Queen St Mall: apparently Elizabeth St bus stop changes happening from next Monday... translink.com.au/updates/1161...

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Elizabeth Street stop changes - Uptown Shopping Centre refurbishment

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This study unfortunately never examined a Queensland politician at this time of year however. The Queensland political class's vision on daylight saving is stuck in 1992: the same year the mother of the house was first elected in Maroochydore, and 10 years before it's youngest MP was born. #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another one mentioning a 2026 finish for the Truro St-Federation St section (inc. the requirement for interim bus lanes from Newmarket Rd Windsor to Truro St Lutwyche. The interim bus lanes were ultimately dumped (except for those leading into Truro St). #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And some parts of the busway network are still incomplete. A huge gap exists in the Northern Busway between Truro St in Lutwyche and Federation St in Windsor. It was first pitched twenty years ago next month, for a potential 2026 completion date. Only the Federation St end was ever built.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

QTQ site on Mount Coot-tha is officially on the market. www.realcommercial.com.au/for-sale/pro...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thus, the technical entity that is being absorbed into ANZ's systems in mid 2027: is effectively "Metway Bank", trading as "Suncorp Bank". Two QLD banking institutions forced into a marriage of convenience, are about to lose their brand they were forced to adopt: and become numbers on ANZ servers.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And for that sale to pass: the Queensland Government, had to revisit in 2024, the legislation that made the Metway merger with Suncorp possible: that if unchanged... could have prevented Suncorp selling it's financial business. www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/h...

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View - Queensland Legislation - Queensland Government

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And, thus: Suncorp Building Society, became Suncorp-Metway in 1999, dropping "Metway" entirely in 2002, and adding "Bank" to the financial segment of what had now become a significant insurance company in 2009, before the financial side of Suncorp was ultimately sold to ANZ in 2024...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The QLD 1996 Cabinet papers due to be released in January will shine a major light onto the move by the QLD Government to step in concerning preventing a St George/Metway tieup in mid-1996. The Suncorp/QIDC/Metway marriage had to be passed by both QLD Parliament and Metway shareholders to succeed.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meanwhile Metway Bank ended up being one of the big success stories of Australian banking post-deregulation (which allowed it to become a bank after almost thirty years of being Metropolitan Permanent Building Society)... only to become hunted by another ex-building society: St George.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And yet, ANZ doesn't want to mention the pre-1996 truth. Suncorp didn't become a bank the usual way... it was still a building society (descended from QLD's SGIO Building Society) in early 1996. It took the QLD government ordained marriage between Suncorp, QIDC and Metway to become a bank.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A very interesting point from this morning's Courier-Mail (page 6). So, ANZ is about to kill the Suncorp Bank brand in July next year... except it's actually killing the last semblances of what was once Metway Bank.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Will be interesting to see if BCC gets the publicity for the Council Cabs 25th anniversary, that it couldn't get when it was announced (back when Soorley was LM/Maureen Hayes transport head) in 2001. Launch date is a giveaway clue.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Far more benefit for the surrounding community (that has suffered greatly from the Toombul closure) from a second full-line supermarket on airport land than a membership warehouse where the amount of potential new members generated by it could be less than predicted. #ColesSkygate

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The priority should be bringing a full-line Coles to the Airport precinct, using the same powers that Costco will be using anyway, to keep development plans out of the public eye, and potentially get them fast-tracked with federal approval. #ColesSkygate

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BAC, read the room. Today marks 1642 days since Toombul was devastated to the point it was condemned and demolished. #ColesSkygate

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A heads up for any QLD political journalist worth their salt: Do a deep dive into K.R. of Palm Beach. K.R is completely losing it on Facebook right now because a GCB FB commenter (which I won’t name to protect their privacy) leaked her home address in a FB comment. #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The one qualm: the numbering will need significant change to reflect the post-CRR sectors. And, this means, Doomben must be renumbered, esp. if BNE Airport services are separated post CRR, as part of a Sydney T4-style arrangement: where the Cronulla and Waterfall services are one sector. #QLDpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Caboolture/Sunshine Coast Line and Ipswich Line: now T1. Kippa-Ring Line and Springfield Line: now T2. Doomben Line: now T3. Shorncliffe Line and Cleveland Line: now T4. Airport Line and Gold Coast Line: now T5. Ferny Grove Line and Beenleigh Line: now T6. #QLDpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A very quiet transport announcement: and probably a good one at that: Translink has announced the rollout of line numbering to the heavy rail network, in conjunction with the Burleigh LR extension opening. #QLDpol translink.com.au/news-and-med...

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Train and tram line numbering

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Coolangatta in Queensland and Tweed Heads in NSW between the 4th of October 2026 and the 4th of April 2027 in a nutshell. #qldpol.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A reminder: The 1996 QLD cabinet papers release can't come fast enough. The first inklings of a BOOT Brisbane Airport rail link that were made when Rob Borbidge was running a minority govt. post Mundingburra, that was hanging on by the smallest margins, will all be out in the open in just 158 days.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Not the only sporting pies Hancock have that are QLD-related: Naming rights holder for Swimming QLD events... who will likely move to the "national aquatic centre" at the Centenary Pool. Interesting if similar letters were sent by Gina concerning swimming pools. qld.swimming.org.au/about-us/spo...

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Hancock Prospecting | Swimming QLD

Hancock Prospecting generously supports Swimming Queenslands’ swimmer and coach development pathway. Growing the development opportunities provided to our athletes and coaches, including training and...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Someone tell Sarah Swain from Nine News's website, to come visit Skygate at 1am in the morning, if she wants her airport supermarket fix: although the lack of competition still hurts in a post-Toombul enviroment. www.nine.com.au/travel/airpo...

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‘A Maccas but no loaf of bread; vital thing missing from Aussie airports’

Other nations have it so why can’t we?

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Maybe that's why the Movie World hotel has been stalled, despite being approved by the GCCC without government interference: because VRTP realises... like the rest of us: that a theme park hotel on the northern GC needs a viable connection to the Gold Coast airport that doesn't rely on the M1.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Now figure out how long it currently takes to get by public transport from OOL to Coomera, once the M1 is choked with shuttle buses. Kinda need that multi-modal option for OOL... before the airport's owners campaign for a border redraw to join NSW: and get the transport infrastructure they need.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The magic number for QLD, is 73 MLA's, 38 MLC's. Something I pitched back in 2021. kuttsywoodscouch.blogspot.com/2021/10/100-... And if it means the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast gets reduced representation as a result, so be it. #qldpol

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100 Years On: A Road to Upper House Revival.

Honorable Gentlemen: hear, hear ! Question put and passed. The (Legislative) Council adjourned at 8.37 pm. The final words, of Queenslan...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

More like he's scared someone will pitch a upper house revival, that can deliver the additional regional representation (with a parallel shrinking of the QLD Legislative Assembly: to increase population averages and thresholds for all QLD lower house electorates.) #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And, speaking of the Wintergarden... A application has been lodged with BCC in the last 24 hours to split off the site under the Intercontinental Hotel (historically, Wintergarden Stage 2, and once: Her Majesty's Theatre) from the rest of the Wintergarden for a significant standalone refurbishment.

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Development.i provides you with access to past and current development application details and basic property information for the Brisbane City Council area.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

All three requirements that the latest QLD state redistribution suggested can be solved by the simplest of political actions: A shrinking of the QLD Legislative Assembly to fit in a upper house that is built on similar lines to WA/Victoria: without the group ticket malaise that exists in Victoria.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Is the rumor true: not the one about the Disney popup at Wintergarden, but about Wintergarden sealing off public access to their ghost-town of a basement food court?

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Meanwhile, on May 31, Hamburg emphatically shut the door on a Olympic bid by using the most powerful tool the people have against the Olympics... democracy. Wenn Hamburg es kann, kann Queensland es auch. If Hamburg can do it, Queensland can too. www.insidethegames.biz/articles/ham... #qldpol

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Inside The Games • Hamburg says no to Olympic bid

Residents of the Hanseatic city rejected in a referendum on Sunday the proposal to submit a candidacy to the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) to host the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Games, with 54.9%...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Highlights of Kings Birthday honours for Queensland: five QLD-based professors (from optometry, psychology, medicine, clinical pharmacology/therapeutics, and dermatology), alongside last two QLD police commissioners set to get AO's. www.gg.gov.au/kings-birthd...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Moreton Bay Council in QLD apparently thinks #birdsarentreal. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

More like, the LNP ended up steering away from confronting the Victoria Park/2032 Olympics issue, head-on. Have noticed the Vic Park lobby in BNE seeming to split in the last few weeks: into 2 camps: one focused on the stadium in Victoria Park in general, one focused on Olympics costs. #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

First accident concerning a Flixbus in Australia... Where did it happen? North Queensland on the Bruce. Where's the budget money for the Bruce going to? SE Queensland. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

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Bus rollover on Queensland's Bruce Highway leaves one dead and many injured

Two other passengers suffered life-threatening injuries after the large coach overturned between Townsville and Bowen.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Event Cinemas at Australia Fair, is shutting on May 24. Retail First has a significant relationship with Hoyts: I wouldn't be surprised if Hoyts returns to the GC after a quarter of a century (their previous site was in Surfers itself, a 4-pack multiplex.)

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A update on the situation: Jack Purcell Meats at Virginia, will be open on Thursday. Expect significantly deep discounts, and significant congestion in and around the Pritchard Road area at Virginia from 9am Thursday morning.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Very interesting Brisbane business news: Jack Purcell Meats at Virginia... is in liquidation as of April 30. Store at Virginia is currently closed.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The real integrity crisis is Queensland's political class and it's hand to mouth relationship with News Corp Australia. If they knew before 2019 that News was a partner of the Australian Olympic Committee... Maybe they wouldn't be rushing to accept invites to News-run events in QLD. #qldpol

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We have highlighted two initatives from the draft document. The second is a gigantic message to the QLD Government. NSW views the GC Airport as a trip generator, and will ultimately be endorsed in NSW transport planning from later this year. QLD needs to view it with the same zeal. #qldpol

Initiative 1: NSW North Coast line improvements: explicitly referencing Queensland.

Initiative 2: Cross-border transport access and service integration: most notably seeing the GC Airport, Southern Cross University (Coolangatta Campus is on GC Airport land) and John Flynn Private Hospital (Tugun, near the Varsity Lakes-GC Airport heavy rail reservation) are explicitly mentioned.

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A very important piece of NSW politics that should be dictated to Queenslanders, especially those within 15km of the NSW/QLD border on the southern Gold Coast. North Coast SRITP is now in draft consultation until June 14. www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au/sritp/north-... #qldpol

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North Coast | Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plans

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If QLD wants to keep up with the Joneses concerning public transport ticketing investment... it needs to have seen that Sydney was going for QR codes long ago. Just add it to the 2032 Olympics credit card our political class thinks is bottomless. #qldpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFa...

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Major overhaul of Opal system | 9 News Australia

YouTube video by 9 News Australia

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One Queensland @onequeensland.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And the greatest example of that is the 1915 QLD state election: the first election with compulsory voting... in Australia. Digby Denham introduced compulsory voting to try and level the playing field post 1912's general strike-afflicted state election. Denham... lost his seat in that election.

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1915 Queensland state election - Wikipedia

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