Thanks for joining us for today’s Brisbane Times blog. The city can expect another beautiful, mostly sunny, day after some morning fog, and a maximum of 25 degrees. In our top stories, Labor’s latest effort to ease cost-of-living pressures will see all public transport trips across Queensland reduced to a flat rate of 50 cents from August 5.
Frequent outages of a Brisbane CBD lift linking with a CityCat terminal and a busy bikeway are so bad, some people avoid travelling that way. The North Quay ferry terminal lift has been out of order for almost half the days of 2024. Queenslanders have been slugged $3.
5 billion more than forecast in stamp duty, but the government says that windfall is being reinvested to make housing more affordable. Being interrupted at work to perform pointless or unrelated tasks causes stress and can hurt productivity, Queensland research has found. And in sport, a day that was billed as the final audition for a host of State of Origin hopefuls instead became the dawning of Keano Kini as an NRL star of the future , in the Broncos’ shock loss to the Titans.
And Billy Slater is set to benefit from Queensland’s State of Origin stability, with the Maroons to take a far more experienced side into the series opener than NSW..
