Marissa Calligeros
Marissa Calligeros is a journalist at Brisbane Times. She was previously an editor at The Age.
Who is driving electric cars in Brisbane? The suburbs with the most and fewest EVs
The uptake of EVs in Brisbane paints a divided picture of the city.
- Marissa Calligeros
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The Brisbane suburbs with the most residential pools
Using aerial imagery, we’ve mapped out every private backyard pool across Greater Brisbane.
- Marissa Calligeros and The Visual Stories Team
Plan for suburb’s first 25-storey high-rise set to test council upzoning push
The development application for the tower with 253 homes – including apartments with five-bedrooms – will test Brisbane council’s appetite for dramatically taller buildings in the suburbs.
- William Davis and Marissa Calligeros
Brisbane’s dawn economy is leading the world. Is this our unique identity?
If Brisbane is looking for a distinctive story to tell the world over the next decade, new research shows it could start with our penchant for rising early.
- Marissa Calligeros
It’s nearly winter. So why are storms hitting Brisbane?
An unusual weather system known as an “atmospheric river” is hitting south-east Queensland.
- Marissa Calligeros
Teen, woman stabbed before house set alight in alleged domestic violence attack
The boy remains in a critical condition in hospital following the weekend incident.
- Marissa Calligeros
Brisbane shoppers, ATM users caught in massive card-skimming operation
The alleged scammers installed card-skimming devices at businesses and ATMs in no fewer than 48 suburbs between February and May.
- Marissa Calligeros and Julius Dennis
‘Outbid every day of the week’: Why hotels are losing the war for city land
Brisbane faces a huge shortfall of hotel rooms for the 2032 Olympics. One developer has a business model that works, but he can’t get the land.
- Marissa Calligeros
Huge cloudband dumps a month’s worth of rain in a day
More than a month’s worth of rain fell in Brisbane on Monday, and the wet weather is set to continue.
- Catherine Strohfeldt and Marissa Calligeros
Brookfield homeowner ordered to remove patio, pool terrace, cubby house in spat with neighbour
The neighbours’ dispute over property boundaries in a leafy enclave of Brisbane turned ugly, the presiding judge said, with police called on two occasions.
- Marissa Calligeros