TOKYO—Brisbane was picked Wednesday to host the 2032 Olympics, the inevitable winner of a one-city race steered by the IOC to avoid rival bids. The Games will go back to Australia 32 years after the popular 2000 Sydney Olympics. Melbourne hosted in 1956. “We know what it takes to deliver a successful Games in Australia,” […]
It took 50 years, but an Australian man’s lucky lottery numbers finally came through to win him $1 million. The Brisbane man, who chose to remain anonymous, matched all six numbers in the August 17 Gold lotto drawing using the numbers his father picked decades ago. “They’re my dad’s numbers. They’re some family birth dates […]
A vigil will be held in a park in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs to mourn the loss of Hannah Clarke and her three children Laianah, Aaliyah, and Trey. A vigil is being organised to mourn the lives of Hannah Clarke and her three children who died after their car was set alight on Wednesday. The vigil […]
A music professional congratulated Shen Yun Performing Arts for embracing the best of Chinese and Western arts at the second performance playing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, on Feb. 27, 2019. Dr. Kay Hartwig, a senior lecturer in music at Griffith University, enjoyed seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts bring harmony to people from different […]
CANBERRA, Australia—A man who falsely claimed to have a bomb and menaced a woman with a knife forced the evacuation of Brisbane International Airport for more than two hours in an emergency that police described on Sunday, Feb. 3, as elaborate and terrifying. Police ended the standoff late Saturday by shooting the 50-year-old man with […]
