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LNP's Terry Young holds on to Longman
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The Liberal National Party's Terry Young has retained the seat of Longman, north of Brisbane, after a tight race with Labor candidate Rhiannyn Douglas.
Young now leads by 335 votes with only about 750 still to count.
The Liberal National Party had previously held Longman with margin of 3.1 per cent but at the next election it will be among the most marginal electorates in the nation.
Terry Young has held the seat of Longman since 2019. His victory in Longman brings the Coalition's seat total in the lower house of the new Parliament to 43.
7.33am
Weather into the weekend
The run of cloudy, cool days in the River City is set to continue today.
Showers are a 50-50 chance in Brisbane, the weather bureau predicts. It should be much wetter closer to the weekend, with a 90 per cent chance of rain on Friday, and a high probability on Saturday, too.
The top temperature today will be a cool 24 degrees, with the days only slightly warmer over the weekend.
Here's the outlook:
7.29am
While you were sleeping
Here's what's making news further afield this morning:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has outlined a second-term agenda for easing division and 'progressive patriotism' that can unite the country.
The PM had an unscheduled meeting with Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto last night, and trade talks are set to be held today.
The Greens are considering sharing leadership and deputy duties among the likely three contenders for the top job, as the 12 remaining federal members meet today to decide the party's future after former leader Adam Bandt lost his seat in a near-wipeout of the minor party.
'It says a lot, none of it flattering, about the mentality of senior politicians in the front lines of the major parties,' Niki Savva writes today, 'that as soon as the election campaign ended, losers and winners began devouring one another. Young cannibals joined with older mentors to inflict mayhem and misery across the spectrum.
Sky News Australia's future in regional Australia is up in the air and in the hands of Network 10 after it snapped up all the licences for beaming the News Corp-owned network on free-to-air television to almost 7 million homes.
And Joe Biden failed to recognise mega-star George Clooney at a major fundraiser the actor hosted for Biden's campaign, according to a new book investigating the former president's physical and mental decline and his team's efforts to play down its significance.
7.09am
The top stories this morning
Good morning, welcome to Brisbane Times' live news coverage for Thursday, May 15. Today we can expect a shower or two and a top temperature of 24 degrees.
In this morning's local headlines:
Brisbane's iconic Story Bridge needs major works, and questions around who will fund it point to bigger issues in infrastructure maintenance, writes City Reporter Courtney Kruk.
The Crisafulli government's money-making arm, the Queensland Investment Corporation, has put a prime Brisbane CBD site on the market – and it could make way for a 274-metre tower.
A con man who posed as a tradie on social media and swindled almost $500,000 from victims has been jailed.
Former federal Queensland Liberal frontbencher Wyatt Roy, once Australia's youngest MP and minister, who is now earning a pretty penny in Saudi Arabia as head of innovation at NEOM, the futuristic desert city that is part of the petro-state's squillion-dollar image rebrand.
And in sport, the AFL's representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players has declined. Brisbane Lion Callum Ah Chee believes social media has played a role.
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