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Brisbane have turned on a second-half blitz to make it three from three in NRL Queensland derbies this season, scoring a 43-26 win over Gold Coast.

A pair of tries from deflected Titans' kicks either side of halftime transformed Saturday night's match as the Broncos put last weekend's loss to Canberra behind them in front of a sell-out crowd of 26,563 at CBUS Super Stadium.

Brisbane simply blew the home side out of the water in the second 40, scoring five tries to two.

The victory, Brisbane's sixth of the season, puts them back on top of the ladder and means they've defeated all three Queensland rivals already in 2023.

Defeat ends a four-game home winning run for the Titans on a night where they drew their biggest home crowd since Johnathan Thurston's NRL farewell in round 25, 2018.

Brisbane's triumph came despite a first half where Gold Coast dominated possession and territory, highlighted by prop Moeaki Fotuaika's 13 runs for 138 metres.

The Titans hit the scoreboard first when Phillip Sami outjumped Jesse Arthars to claim a Tanah Boyd kick in just the fifth minute.

Brisbane levelled in the 16th when impressive Jordan Riki dragged Jayden Campbell and Kieran Foran over the line, but the hosts restored their lead a short time later through winger Alofiana Khan-Pereira.

Just when it looked like the hosts would take a healthy eight-point advantage into the break the Broncos pounced.

Reece Walsh reached high to charge down Jayden Campbell's kick in the final seconds of the half, Marty Taupau gathering and sending Herbie Farnworth away.

Brisbane used that good fortune to turn the momentum of the contest at the start of the second half.

Another deflected kick, this time Riki sticking out a boot on a Foran grubber, allowed the Broncos back-rower to surge downfield after he pounced on the loose ball.

Although he was wrapped up by Campbell in a good covering tackle, just two plays later Walsh went over and Brisbane led for the first time on the night.

When Khan-Pereira was ruled to have lost possession by playing the ball without being tackled in the 55th minute, Arthars scored from the resulting set to put the Broncos in charge.

Gold Coast's woes deepened when captain Tino Fa'asuamaleaui was sin-binned with less than 20 minutes to play, Kurt Capewell and Ezra Mam both scoring before Kruise Leeming crossed for the home team.

The Titans' evening was summed up when Selwyn Cobbo pounced on another loose ball to sprint clear and wrap up the win, although Khan-Pereira scored a consolation on the siren.

Broncos coach Kevin Walters was pleased with his team's second half but said his team needs to halt a worrying trend of starting games poorly.

"We knew that we were a better side than what we've thrown up in the first half," Walters said.

"It's a bit disappointing because we spoke all week to get off to a good start and a strong start. That didn't happen for us, but luckily, it's week seven of 27.

"Pleasing thing was when we did start to play some footy we looked like a pretty good side."

Titans coach Justin Holbrook refused to get drawn on issues like Fa'asauamaleaui's sin-binning and took a philosophical approach to his team's loss.

"We didn't play good enough. They were the better side, it's as simple as that," Holbrook said.

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Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Take That will star in an eclectic line-up at a concert to celebrate King Charles' coronation, billed by organisers as a chance to celebrate a new chapter in Britain's history.

The formal coronation ceremony for Charles, who became king on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth last September, will take place at Westminster Abbey on May 6.

The following day attention turns to Windsor Castle, west of London, where 20,000 members of the public and special guests attend the concert, which will also be broadcast on television and radio.

US music star Richie said: "To share the stage with the other performers at the coronation concert is a once-in-a-lifetime event and it will be an honour and a celebration."

The line-up also includes opera star Andrea Bocelli, singer-songwriter Freya Ridings, Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, and classical-soul composer Alexis Ffrench.

The list of performers was announced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who will produce and broadcast the showcase.

In addition, The Coronation Choir, a group created from community choirs and amateur singers from across Britain, will appear alongside The Virtual Choir, which is made up of singers from across the Commonwealth.

The BBC said the centrepiece of the concert will see iconic locations across the UK lit up using projections, lasers, drone displays and illuminations.

"It will feature a broad mix of music spanning pop to classical, along with spoken word and dance performances reflecting arts and culture from around the UK and the wider Commonwealth," the British broadcaster said.

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A human rights advocate says she wants every Australian to understand that the heart of the voice proposal will empower Indigenous people to have a say on matters that affect them.

Uluru Dialogues co-chair Pat Anderson has told federal MPs the message from Indigenous people across the country has been consistent in the dozens of dialogues she has joined on constitutional recognition.

"The voice is about getting grassroots voices amplified and feeding into Canberra, representing the views and voices of their communities," she told the parliamentary committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice referendum in Canberra on Friday.

"The really important message from the dialogues was that there is no voice that exists now that represents who we are and what we want.

"That's a really powerful message."

Professors Megan Davis, Marcia Langton and Tom Calma also addressed the committee, as did Uluru statement campaigner Thomas Mayor and retired journalist Kerry O'Brien, who have co-written a book about the voice.

And while their areas of expertise differ, they all agreed on one point: the status quo for Indigenous Australians is not acceptable.

Prof Davis, co-chair of the Uluru Dialogues, said the bill was the culmination of a 16-year national discussion of constitutional recognition.

"This bill has deep roots in generations of advocacy by First Nations people concerned about Indigenous disempowerment, structural powerlessness and a constitution that makes no reference to the polities that have occupied Australia for more than 60,000 years," she said.

"The dialogues advocated for substantive constitutional change that would alter the status quo. They called for empowerment through voice that could speak to both parliament and the government but one that could also evolve and change over the decades to come."

Prof Calma pointed out a million people walked across bridges in Australia in the name of reconciliation in the year 2000.

"The population was getting to understand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people," he said.

"In 2008, we had the national apology to the Stolen Generations. Kevin Rudd said at the time and subsequent prime ministers and another ministers have said since that we cannot keep on doing things for and to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, we need to do it with them.

"We've had successive attempts but no real tangible outcomes.

"This process is the opportunity to now work with and partner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be able to achieve reconciliation, to be able to achieve equality."

The inquiry also heard from legal experts, former judges and practising barristers.

One, Bret Walker SC, was scathing when asked about the suggestion the voice would delay effective governance by having to be consulted on every decision by the public service or government.

"I regard it as double backflip with pike," he said.

"As an advocate in the High Court, I don't think I would get half a sentence out if I was advancing an argument like that.

"It just seems to me that this notion that there is an implication threatened ... whereby the validity of executive action, decisions great, small and middle by officials, will somehow jam up the process as a result of this enactment is too silly for words.

"I personally don't think it would be responsible for any constitutionalist to say so."

The inquiry is only looking at the legislation needed for a referendum and will also hold public hearings in Orange on Monday and Cairns on Wednesday.

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