Push to save Brisbane bowls club turned youth arts hub gathers steam
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State and federal MPs have joined staff and supporters of an inner-Brisbane bowls club-turned-music venue and community space, calling on the council to scrap plans to bulldoze the site under its latest vision to redevelop the surrounding heritage park.
The former East Brisbane Bowls Club building and greens are located within the state heritage-listed Mowbray Park off Lytton Road but are not recognised as having heritage significance themselves.
The site has been slated for demolition to create what the council describes as new open green space under the park plan.
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A baby boom at City Hall and a shake-up of meeting arrangements during the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a Brisbane City Council move to âfamily-friendlyâ meeting hours.
The announcement came during the first hybrid sitting of the council on Tuesday, with Labor deputy leader Kara Cook joining the council and committee meetings via video link.
In making the announcement, Cr Schrinner pointed to 2018 changes in Queensland Parliament to ensure sitting days wrapped up by 7.30pm at the latest.
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It was hailed as a landmark day by lord mayor Adrian Schrinner and Cr Cook, who had been told last year it would be too costly and difficult for her to join the meetings remotely after the birth of her third child in January.
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.