“Right after Expo, South Bank had become a sort of theme park – the Gold Coast comes to Brisbane – it had a lot of mickey mouse tourist attractions, squashed hot chips, Ibis droppings, and stuffed ...

Steve was sacked after 16 years by incoming premier Campbell Newman in 2012, “joining a long, illustrious list”. “It wasn’t because of me,” he explains, “Campbell wanted to split South Bank in two, ...