Brisbane rates, water charges up 26 per cent since Newman’s first council budget
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Brisbane residents are paying an average of 26 per cent more – after inflation – for their combined annual council rates and water utilities bills since the LNP took charge of Brisbane City Council’s budget in 2004, a
Brisbane Times analysis shows.
The largest portion of the jump – 15 per cent – has come since Queensland Urban Utilities took over water and sewerage charges from the council in 2010, driven largely by state bulk water fees.
Lord mayor Adrian Schrinner handed down what he described as a ‘blue and green’ $3.6 billion Brisbane City Council on Wednesday, as the council shoulders more debt to meet its infrastructure needs.
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Censorship row erupts in council ethics meeting over police racism post
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Brisbane City Councilâs Labor opposition has raised concerns about the censorship of elected representativesâ views during a meeting of the local governmentâs ethics committee that resulted in a Greens councillor being reprimanded for criticism of the police.
The meeting was called on Tuesday for a case involving Greens Gabba councillor Jonathan Sriâs online comments last year describing Australian police as âracist and violentâ when sharing a video of a NSW police officerâs alleged assault of a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy last year.
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The decaying, heritage-listed Lamb House has been boarded up ahead of an increasingly likely council auction to recover unpaid rates.
The 119-year-old mansion, which overlooks Brisbaneâs CBD from atop the Kangaroo Point cliffs, will be acquired and sold by Brisbane City Council if $321,000 in outstanding rates are not paid.
A mound of newspapers and magazines litters the garden of Lamb House, which has been boarded up while its fate is determined.
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At the front of the residence â officially and simply named âHomeâ â is a metre-high mound of newspapers and magazines fused together in a papier-mache mass forged by months or years of rain.