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The fan site, which was incredibly popular during the Women’s World Cup in 2023, returns to South Bank.

‘Nothing like the crowd spirit’: Free World Cup live site returns to South Bank

Organisers are promising free entry, food facilities and a “family-friendly” atmosphere for the pop-up venue, which will screen several major games from as early as 4am.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Brittney Deguara

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Sunrise over Brisbane, when

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
Support beams in the car park beneath the On the Banks series of concerts.

Why a forest of steel has cropped up in a South Bank car park

More than 100 steel jacks have been installed in the QPAC car park ahead of a concert series on the Cultural Forecourt above.

  • Cameron Atfield
Plans for the Cultural Centre busway intersection at Grey and Melbourne streets, South Brisbane over the years, from council’s 2019 underground Metro plan, the state government’s vision, council’s 2022 artist’s impression showing a pocket park in the bottom-right corner, and finally the current car park.

Paved paradise: Why a promised park was never built, and instead became a car park

Prime real estate in the centre of Brisbane’s cultural precinct has become a car park for railway workers because of a stoush between governments.

  • Felicity Caldwell
The visually stunning building was four years behind schedule.

A peek inside the long-overdue Glasshouse theatre

Four years behind schedule, QPAC’s see-through theatre is finally ready to host the public.

  • Julius Dennis
The Streets Beach at South Bank has been closed and drained for a second time this year while management investigates a stubborn leak.

Mystery lagoon leak leaves South Bank beach closed, with no reopening date

Investigators are yet to find where the pool has been leaking and no time frame given for when it will reopen, warning of longer and more frequent closures as the lagoon continued to age.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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Visy’s South Brisbane glass manufacturing site has been secured for the 2032 Olympics international broadcast centre.

Lord Mayor says new Visy site plans still allow for ‘South Bank 2.0’

Brisbane LNP Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has backed in his state party colleagues’ plans for the riverside Visy recycling factory at South Brisbane, despite being a vocal supporter of the former Labor government’s now-abandoned vision for the site.

  • Cameron Atfield
Katie, a tourist from Glasgow, was admiring the new sign design at South Bank on Tuesday.

Brisbane sign gets ‘eye-catching’ makeover, but what do tourists think?

It’s been described by some as Brisbane’s version of the Hollywood sign, so fittingly, it’s had a facelift.

  • Brittney Deguara
The proposed STH BNK development.

$2.7 billion plan to build Australia’s tallest tower falters

Five years on, after buyers paid deposits for 80 per cent of its planned apartments, the STH BNK project in Melbourne’s Southbank still doesn’t have a builder.

  • Nasteho Said and Anders Melin
Great Australian Bites at South Bank, Brisbane.

Things to do in Brisbane on the Australia Day long weekend

Whether celebrating, reflecting, or just chilling, here are 26 ways to spend your long weekend.

  • Nick Dent