Demolition of the flood-damaged Toombul shopping centre is finally complete, with owner Mirvac now turning its attention to a new development plan.The site has taken 12 months to clear and Mirvac expects the development plan will take “several months”.While there has been speculation Toombul could become a 2032 Games venue, much of the site is flood-prone and Mirvac has previously flagged a mixed-use residential precinct to make use of the public transport connections.Toombul Shopping Centre was flooded in 2022 and never reopened.Credit: Albert Perez/AAP“We’ve been working closely with authorities, including Brisbane City Council, over the past two years to agree the parameters for future development of the site, including items such as traffic, location and size of the bus interchange, open space, building envelopes – including retail – and the most important part of the puzzle, the flood solution,” Mirvac told Toombul residents in an email this week.“This has been a complex process that has taken time to get right and is a big milestone in the potential redevelopment of the site.“Now that we have council support confirming what is permissible on the site, we are commencing discussions with a targeted group of potential partners, including capital and other delivery partners, to support the future redevelopment.“Given the scale and size of the site, along with the current challenging construction environment, we believe this will be the fastest pathway to bring life back to Toombul.”Latest postsLatest postsContinuing with the electoral reforms that passed the Senate late last night, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the move is designed to stop billionaires from “running our electoral system”.Despite the crossbench decrying the lack of consultation on the bill, Plibersek told ABC News Breakfast there had been a “great deal of consultation”.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen“We see what happens if big money runs our elections. People remember Clive Palmer and his extraordinary spending to get himself and his candidates elected,” Plibersek said.“It’s not a healthy thing for our democracy if you can have big money like that influencing the outcome of elections.”Plibersek said Australia doesn’t want a US-style system where it’s a full-time effort to fundraise enough money to win office.“Limiting donations, limiting spending, real-time disclosure – these are things that will make our democracy stronger.”Furious teals have threatened to use the balance of power to reverse Australia’s first laws curbing big money donations in politics, after Labor stuck a deal with the Coalition to pass the bill through the Senate late on Wednesday night.Teal MP Kate Chaney, who led negotiations on behalf of the crossbench, urged Australians to use their vote to punish the major parties for what the well-funded group of teal MPs, Greens and transparency groups have called an attempt to thwart independents.Zoe Daniel is flanked by members of the crossbench at a press conference on Wednesday.Credit: Alex EllinghausenAhead of the bill’s passage through the Senate late on Wednesday night, members of the crossbench made their feelings known.Teal MP Zoe Daniel said the move was a “political stitch-up to secure power for the major party duopoly”.“It’s proof that the Canberra Cartel are scared of Independents, and they hold voters in contempt,” Daniel wrote on X.Meanwhile, independent senator Jacqui Lambie made her thoughts known on the Senate floor.After Special Minister of State Don Farrell told the Senate on Wednesday night that “you shouldn’t any longer be in thrall to a billionaire to be elected to this place”, Lambie stood up to say she was “offended” by this statement.“The only way I got here was that I was given an opportunity, as a normal Aussie, by Clive Palmer,” Lambie told the Senate.“Are you now saying to me, that after 10 years in this place, that I don’t belong here?” Demolition of the flood-damaged Toombul shopping centre is finally complete, with owner Mirvac now turning its attention to a new development plan.The site has taken 12 months to clear and Mirvac expects the development plan will take “several months”.While there has been speculation Toombul could become a 2032 Games venue, much of the site is flood-prone and Mirvac has previously flagged a mixed-use residential precinct to make use of the public transport connections.Toombul Shopping Centre was flooded in 2022 and never reopened.Credit: Albert Perez/AAP“We’ve been working closely with authorities, including Brisbane City Council, over the past two years to agree the parameters for future development of the site, including items such as traffic, location and size of the bus interchange, open space, building envelopes – including retail – and the most important part of the puzzle, the flood solution,” Mirvac told Toombul residents in an email this week.“This has been a complex process that has taken time to get right and is a big milestone in the potential redevelopment of the site.“Now that we have council support confirming what is permissible on the site, we are commencing discussions with a targeted group of potential partners, including capital and other delivery partners, to support the future redevelopment.“Given the scale and size of the site, along with the current challenging construction environment, we believe this will be the fastest pathway to bring life back to Toombul.” Advertisement The River City wakes to another mild summer’s day today, with a forecast top temperature of 30 degrees.Otherwise, expect a partly cloudy day with a medium chance of showers.Looking ahead to the weekend, the next few days in Brisbane should be much the same, although the chance of rain heightens on Saturday.Here’s what else is making news further afield today:Two nurses are expected to be fired over an antisemitic video that has rocked Sydney after a summer of anti-Jewish violence, embarrassing the state’s health system.US President Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war in Ukraine will begin immediately following a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, as the US laid out its blunt vision for a peace deal.Furious teals have threatened to use the balance of power to reverse Australia’s first laws curbing big money donations in politics, after Labor stuck a deal with the Coalition to pass the bill through the Senate late on Wednesday night.“Insurance” must rank as one of the most un-rock ‘n’ roll words in the dictionary, alongside “annuity” and “podiatry”. But as an ever-growing number of ageing rock stars hit the road, it’s a word that is increasingly in the spotlight.On Tuesday, Sam Kerr left Kingston Crown Court in London for the final time after a jury found she was not guilty of racially aggravated harassment. She now enters the court of public opinion where a rule book doesn’t exist.Good morning, and welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog. Today the city can expect a cloudy day and a top temperature of 30 degrees.In local news you need to know:Some of Australia’s peak professional bodies have remained agnostic on the location of Olympic stadiums while submitting road maps to the 100-day venue review.Finding a meal after 9pm in Brisbane is no easy feat. And in today’s Perspective column, Courtney Kruk says we have seven years to boost the city’s night-time economy in time for the Olympics.Night Feast at Brisbane Powerhouse.Credit: Markus RavikQueensland’s opposition has questioned the “integrity and transparency” of the appointment process for a new panel advising on youth crime policy.In sport, as the Super Rugby season launches without a Melbourne team, players and officials reflect on some tough decisions, and what they might mean for the game.