Green said one of the biggest barriers to catching up to demand was how long it took to get areas zoned or rezoned for residential use. “I’ve got a [24 hectare] bit of land around Stoney Creek and Kelvin Grove I ve been trying to get sorted for years – that’s 220 sections that could get going right away, the second the city council rezoned it.” The Government recently announced it was scrapping the Resource Management Act, and will be making reforms over the next two years to speed up access to land for housing. “But we need new sections now, not in three or four years. If we don’t get them soon, then the city is going to stop growing”
You’ve Been Trumped filmmaker Anthony Baxter’s new documentary about Scottish landscape painter James Morrison presents an unexpectedly tender portrait of the artist as an old man. Unlike his previous high-profile films – about former US president Donald Trump’s corporate assault on the Aberdeenshire coastline and a town in crisis thanks to civic negligence of its water system in Flint, Michigan – Eye of the Storm sees Baxter in quieter, more reflective mode in his home town of Montrose. Eye of the Storm, a reference to Morrison’s habit of painting outside in all weathers for most of his career, was filmed by Baxter during the last two years of his life. The Glasgow-born artist, who trained under David Donaldson at the city’s school of art in the early 1950s, died last August at the age of 88 after a career spanning six decades. Morrison’s quest to paint people-free transcendent moments in time and space took him all over the world, but he is best remembered f
An urgent health alert has been issued for millions of Australians to get tested for Covid-19 if they experience even mild symptoms after fragments of the deadly disease were detected at two wastewater treatment plants.
Queensland Health announced on Thursday sampling of sewage at Luggage Point, servicing huge swathes of Brisbane, and Victoria Point, servicing the area around Redland Bay, returned positive readings for Covid-19.
The state is on high alert following concerns highly-infectious strains of coronavirus could potentiality be spreading around Queensland.
Residents in Brisbane (pictured) are being urged to get tested after fragments of Covid-19 were detected at two wastewater treatment plants
Property by Darren Cartwright and Elizabeth Tilley 25th Feb 2021 5:03 AM
Premium Content  Homehunters have become so disillusioned with Queensland s property market they are going to extreme lengths, such as letterbox drops and doorknocking, to find owners willing to sell. With listings at record lows and money cheaper than ever, competition is fierce and buyers are throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars more at sellers in a desperate bid not to miss out. Just this week, a luxury home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Paddington sold for $200,000 more than it fetched only a year earlier - and not a thing had been done to improve it in that time.
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