Fans of the world-famous series Bluey were shocked when the Heeler family’s Brisbane home was put up for sale at the end of the latest episode.
Now, ahead of a 28-minute special episode due to air this Sunday morning, the weatherboard Queenslander has now also been listed on the real estate website Domain.
“A quaint, animated family home nestled in an undisclosed Brisbane location, that could be in Red Hill or The Gap (we’ll never tell), with mid-century design aesthetics offset by whimsical touches,” the listing reads.Credit: Domain
Viewers have started to speculate about what the change will mean for the show.
“Bet Chilli is pregnant and they need another room and have to get a bigger house,” one fan said on Facebook.
“I feel like there should have been a family meeting before you just sprung this type of life-altering change on us,” said another on X.
Series creator and writer Joe Brumm told Domain the house itself had become a sort of fifth Heeler character.
“Some past episodes have touched on how a room can become imbued with memories and take on a life of its own. But families leave houses all the time,” Brumm said.
“It happened to me as a kid around the same age Bluey and Bingo are, and then again a bit later on. I still remember it vividly.”
Thanks for joining us. That’s where we will leave our live updates this Tuesday, but we’ll be back tomorrow morning. Until then, here are some of today’s top stories:
The architect of the state government’s plan to use the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre as Brisbane’s main 2032 Olympic stadium has refused an invitation to appear before a Senate inquiry to explain his stance.
Australian Olympic supremo John Coates, who Premier Steven Miles cited as the inspiration for the controversial stadium call, had been called to give evidence to an ongoing inquiry into Australia’s preparedness to host the 2032 Games.
John Coates has refused to appear before a Senate inquiry into Australia’s preparedness to host the 2032 Games.Credit: Mark Metcalfe/Getty
Coates, along with former Brisbane lord mayor Graham Quirk, was asked to appear before the inquiry last month, following the release of Quirk’s report into Brisbane 2032 venues.
“John has advised he has declined – with no further comment,” an Australian Olympic Committee spokesman said.
Adam Reynolds says he will be “touch and go” for the Broncos’ round-eight clash with Wests Tigers, but harbours no doubts he will be able to see out his 2025 deal.
The Brisbane halfback and captain cut a forlorn figure in his side’s sheds at half-time on Friday, reduced to tears as another injury setback halted his comeback during the two-point loss to the Storm.
Adam Reynolds has already been forced to leave the field twice with injury this year.Credit: Scott Davis/NRL Photos
Having just returned from a knee concern, the minor hamstring setback would probably rule him out for three weeks.
Reynolds was adamant he had not made his way back to the field too soon given it was a separate injury, but admitted he struggled emotionally at the thought of further fitness concerns.
Arina Rodionova has cast aside the frustration of missing out an Australian Open wildcard – despite her standing as the nation’s No.1-ranked tennis star at the time.
Fresh off a giant-killing run to the quarterfinals of January’s Brisbane International – which featured a straight-sets victory over former grand slam champion Sofia Kenin – Rodionova was a shock exclusion from Tennis Australia’s nominations for automatic inclusion in Melbourne.
Arina Rodionova was a shock snubbing in Tennis Australia’s Australian Open wildcards.Credit: Getty Images
The 34-year-old, who expressed her angst on social media following the decision, lost in the qualifying tournament, and at the time believed she had “given Tennis Australia something to celebrate” by doing so, adding it was “clear to me that I am not liked”.
But Rodionova rebounded to briefly move into the world’s top 100 for the first time, and has earned selection for the Billie Jean King Cup leg against Mexico.
A man accused of killing a Queensland toddler will walk free from court, after the prosecution dropped their case against him.
Aaron Harley James has been behind bars for more than two years after he was committed to stand trial for the murder of his 16-month-old stepson Jaylen Priest at their Burpengary home.
Jaylen Troy Priest died in hospital with injuries including a skull fracture, brain swelling, fractured ribs and bruises.
James was scheduled to face a 10-day trial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, and had pleaded not guilty when the charge was downgraded to manslaughter.
But Justice Peter Callaghan dismissed the jury this afternoon, after the prosecution indicated they would drop the case.
Callaghan said the evidence suggested the case was an “awful tragedy”, and there was no suggestion there had been any violence or mistreatment by James towards Jaylen.
Sticking with the topic of schools and teachers this week: you may have heard (or seen my colleague Felicity Caldwell’s reporting) about changes the government is proposing to give parents and students greater ability to appeal against accumulating suspensions.
The bill, introduced by Education Minister Di Farmer and undergoing parliamentary committee consideration, has revealed major differences in the views of lawyers and the Human Rights Commissioner, to those of the teachers’ union.
While appeals for a review of a principal’s decision are currently allowed for suspensions of between 11 and 20 days, the changes would expand this ability to shorter suspensions if it meant a student would spend 11 or more days suspended in a calendar year.
Asked about the union’s submission, which describes the changes as diminishing teachers’ and principals’ autonomy and restricting their ability to maintain safe and orderly schools, Premier Steven Miles had this to say at a media conference in Gladstone this morning:
It’s important that we have systems in place that keep students engaged in education, that’s what the intention of those laws were.
But, we don’t want to have unintended consequences – that seems to be what the union is suggesting will happen here. And so we’ll definitely take those comments on board.
A Brisbane troll has been fined $1000 and given a 12-month good behaviour bond for sending “vile and toxic” online abuse in a drunken rage to a Rugby World Cup match official and his family.
Aaron Isaia, 22, appeared in Beenleigh Magistrates Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to menace and harass, after being unmasked by a digital security company hired by World Rugby to monitor abuse of its referees and match officials at last year’s Rugby World Cup in France.
The court heard Isaia was upset with decisions made in the pool game between Samoa and England. Samoa were denied a try and later had a player sin-binned, and the English won by a single point via a 73rd-minute try.
Kalyn Ponga has offered to step in and play five-eighth for Queensland after Cameron Munster gave a grim injury update.
Melbourne five-eighth Munster said he was resigned to feeling below his best, sometimes playing “crap”, and needing to tackle mental demons on his comeback from a groin injury.
Munster missed the opening month of the 2024 campaign after hurting himself in a pre-season shower mishap but returned to the field against Brisbane last Thursday.
The 29-year-old was solid in the Storm’s 34-32 win and has felt fit in the days that followed.
“My lungs were burning but other than that I felt pretty good. I surprisingly pulled up really well from the groin after the game,” Munster said on Monday.
Ahead of Friday’s clash against Canterbury, Munster was still working towards full fitness.
“I think for me, [it’s] just mentally trying to get through those demons. My body’s probably going to be 70 to 80 per cent most games and I’ve just got to be mentally strong enough to play and get through it,” he said.
Queensland’s network of 108 fixed red light cameras, some of which also detect speeding motorists, captured 157,553 offences in 2023.
In response to a question from the opposition, Transport Minister Bart Mellish said the cameras detected 115,412 red light offences, and 42,141 speeding offences, in 2023.
While some cameras might be offline at various times, the network is detecting a red light offence, on average, every 4½ minutes over the course of a year.
Mellish declined to release a list of camera locations, saying it would be “potentially detrimental in supporting road safety outcomes”.
One of the most active campaigners against the Toondah Harbour project, Birdlife Southern Queensland’s Judith Hoyle, has welcomed the move to block the development.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the developers, the Walker Group, 10 business days to challenge her bid to reject the $1.4 billion development at Cleveland.
Hoyle said she naively thought federal environment laws would have already protected the wetlands and Moreton Bay from a development of that scale, but was heartened by Plibersek’s intervention.
“What can I say? The Walker Group could not make a compelling argument over 5000 pages in the (Environmental Impact Statement) documents, so they are not going to be able to mount a compelling argument in 10 business days,” Hoyle said.
“It was a testament to all our followers, to the tens of thousands of them. If Tanya Plibersek wants to hear from them, she certainly will.”
The Walker Group has yet to respond.
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