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7.13am
Up or down, how much will your rates change?
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Average Brisbane rates will increase $1.14 a week as they are lifted 3.87 per cent this financial year.
But people who buy new inner-city apartments will be slugged with higher rates than people in the suburbs, under an initiative announced in the Brisbane City Council budget yesterday.
Brisbane's average rate rise – which amounts to an average increase of $55 a year – is above the city's 2.7 per cent annual inflation rate.
The council's finance chair, councillor Fiona Cunningham, said Brisbane's rates were still the cheapest in south-east Queensland, at $240 lower than Logan and $384 lower than the Gold Coast.
To find out how rates in your suburb will change, our full budget report is here, with a searchable table of Brisbane suburbs. Or glance at the budget winners and losers here.
Weather into the weekend
The weather continues to warm in Brisbane, with both daily maximum and nightly minimum temperatures to return to more typical winter levels.
Today's expected top of 23 degrees is expected to be the same into the weekend, with partly cloudy days forecast.
Here's the seven-day outlook:
7.05am
While you were sleeping
Here's what's making news further afield this morning:
The Blues' hopes for the biggest comeback in State of Origin history were dashed by a heroic Maroons squad holding out to the 80th minute in Perth last night, levelling the series and keeping the Origin flame alive for the decider in a few weeks.
US President Donald Trump has refused to say whether the US would attack Iran's nuclear sites after the nation's supreme leader was defiant in a national address. Follow our live coverage.
It's been six days since Israel first struck Iran. Here's what we know.
Former PM Paul Keating has accused Defence Minister Richard Marles of betraying his country for suggesting Australia's territory was crucial to the great power contest between the US and China.
Erin Patterson wasn't scrambling around in the bush looking for killer mushrooms. She wasn't a cold-blooded killer. Instead, her lawyer says she was an isolated worrier trying to gain love.
in an effort to defuse claims that he was routinely taking ketamine in the run-up to the US election.
An Australian start-up has become the first company to secure approval to sell lab-grown meat in Australia. But is it any good?
6.58am
The top stories this morning
Good morning, welcome to Brisbane Times' live news coverage for Thursday, June 19. Today we can expect a mostly sunny day and a top temperature of 23 degrees.
In this morning's local headlines:
Find out how much your rates will change after Brisbane City Council's 2025-26 budget was handed down on Tuesday with our suburb-by-suburb interactive chart.
Speaking of the budget, all Brisbane ratepayers will be charged a $50 levy to cover the cost of rolling out green bins across the city, whether they use them or not.
Encouraging more low-impact, nature-based tourism is an excellent proposition, but Courtney Kruk questions just how eco-friendly Queensland's ecotourism plan really is.
A Brisbane train driver with COVID ran a red light while suffering a sneezing fit in the inner-city a little more than two years ago, according to a safety report.
A man who raped and tortured a woman for weeks in Brisbane has appealed against his life sentences, claiming he was not credited for his efforts to stop her from dying.
And nestled in hundreds of hectares of bush, Queensland's Griffith University has been ranked one of the most sustainable in the world.