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Could this Sydney Olympic legacy be a blueprint to help solve one of Queensland's biggest problems?

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The real legacy of the Sydney Olympics can be found overlooking the beautiful Queensland coast — and some say it should provide inspiration for the organizers of Brisbane 2032. The twelve 57 sqm two-bedroom, one-bath spa villas from Sydney 2000 have become a getaway for visitors to the Philippa Thompson caravan park at Rainbow Beach, north of the Sunshine Coast. Ms Thompson says after hosting thousands of holiday makers for 21 years, they remain in good working condition and only need occasional updates and additions, and are working on wear and tear. Pre-fabricated buildings were shipped to locations across the country and the athlete’s village of Newington in Sydney was converted into apartments. The whole area turned into a new residential community. Minor additions have been made to the villa over the last two decades. ( provided ) Ten years before hosting the Olympics and Paralympics, architects say the village that will host most of the more than 23,000 athletes and officials a

Beauty and the beast: Why Zoe Foster Blake is the least of BWX problems

BWX’s Gration acknowledged that the major change, which caused the group to slash its profit forecast, was that it could no longer engage in a practice where retailers increased sales by ‘selling’ more products to their distributors than they could sell to consumers. . The retail winds have changed so rapidly that this practice of channel filling – which the company had relied on in its forecasts given in May – is no longer tenable just 6 weeks later. “Retail conditions have been challenging and changing, putting more pressure on our retail partners and ourselves with rising inflation, rising prices and rising interest rates,” Gration explained to analysts and investors on a conference call following the announcement of the capital increase in late June. “When we provide trade updates in May, our plan assumes sales and holds certain inventory levels with select wholesale retailers in June. Challenging market conditions have caused us to change our approach.” BWX’s retail partners are

Problems with Elon Musk's high-stakes plan to pull out of his $44 billion Twitter deal

Late Friday, Musk’s legal team declared its intention to terminate the merger agreement, reiterating its claim that Twitter did not provide him with sufficient information about accounts and saying it was his belief that the share of spam and fake accounts was “significantly higher” than the amount Twitter claims. They also point to the recent firing of two Twitter executives, the layoff of a third of its talent acquisitions and the departure of several senior executives (reportedly because some of them don’t want to stay on what they hoped to be Musk’s Twitter) as material changes that hurt the business. . Musk signed a deal with a very limited breakout clause and made an easy exit from it even more difficult by restating back in April that: “I don’t care about the economy at all.” It was conceived as the purchase of luxury goods by the world’s richest man at a time when his wealth (and ego?) was on the rise. Now he has buyer’s remorse. Twitter’s board has signaled it won’t let him o