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1965 world champion Margaret Swann at the announcement that Redcliffe will host the 2027 Softball World Cup.

Redcliffe to host Softball World Cup, throwing curveball to Logan’s Olympic hopes

Redcliffe will host the 2027 Softball World Cup, setting up a fierce competition with Logan City Council in the latest gambit for diamond sports’ inclusion in the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.

  • Cameron Atfield

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A Ghost Bat drone at RAAF Base Amberley in 2022.

ADF to introduce billion-dollar drone dome over Brisbane 2032

Australia is set to spend $1.3 billion on new counter-drone measures, with the technology to be ready to protect 2032 Olympic sites.

  • Cameron Atfield
Prior + Partners director of master planning Jonathan Rose and Arcadis Brisbane Games and legacy lead Paul Allan at the firm’s Brisbane office, looking over a map of the Victoria Park site.

‘Part of the city centre’: Consortium lays out Victoria Park vision

The group, which has been shortlisted to produce a master plan for the Olympic precinct, already has a vision for connecting it to the CBD.

  • Cameron Atfield
Logan Mayor Jon Raven and Australian international softballer Kayla Waller at the site of what they hope will be the baseball and softball stadium at Brisbane 2032.

Logan’s pitch to build stadium for homeless Olympic sports

Logan City Council is planning its own privately funded field of dreams to host Olympic baseball and softball. But if they build it, will the Games come?

  • Cameron Atfield
Labor deputy leader Cameron Dick and shadow health minister Mark Bailey at a press conference in Brisbane to discuss the abandonment of Dr Krispin Hajkowicz

Opposition, former LNP premier raise questions over top doc hiring

Campbell Newman and Labor don’t often see eye-to-eye. But both want answers over the chief health officer recruitment process after revelations about political signage at the first pick’s home.

  • Matt Dennien
Work on the new Machinery Hill stand, pictured with the planned athletes’ village at the RNA Showgrounds, will start next year.

First Olympic legacy project to begin as soon as Ekka is over

Work on the new RNA Showgrounds arena will begin within weeks, marking the start of Brisbane’s Olympic-related construction.

  • Cameron Atfield
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The planned Logan Indoor Sports Centre, which will be a venue at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Olympic organisers win 2032 trademark battle with local council

The Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee sought to protect a swathe of location-based trademarks, but one local council beat them to the punch.

  • Cameron Atfield
Lock said finding para archery has changed his life.

How a Facebook ad could take Mattias to Paralympics

Mattias Lock is one of 346 possible Olympic and Paralympic athletes found during the Australian Institute of Sport’s largest talent search.

  • Frances Howe and Billie Eder
Near the spot a new stadium is planned for the 2032 Olympics and beyond at Victoria Park in Brisbane.

Aboriginal corporation lodges legal fight over Victoria Park

“We are very concerned there are ancient trees, artefacts and very important ecosystems existing there. There may be ancestral remains.”

  • Felicity Caldwell
Render of the proposed National Aquatic Centre at Victoria Park.

Olympic aquatic centre may be cheaper than thought

Brisbane 2032’s independent infrastructure delivery body has walked back claims the aquatic centre would cost more than $1 billion.

  • Cameron Atfield