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Enjoy a wonderful winter weekend with more than 80 of our best independent local artisans at the QAGOMA Winter Design Market!
Madison Beer’s Australian debut kicked off in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley last night with great success. Fans lined the block waiting to pour into the Fortitude Valley Music Hall wearing bows in their ...
Bill Diacos was married to my wife Ange’s cousin Val. For many years we lived in the same street and used to visit each other regularly. Val sadly died of cancer and a couple of weeks ago Bill sadly ...
Do you remember the song Treaty by Yothu Yindi? It was released in 1991 when Sallyanne Atkinson was the Mayor of Brisbane City Council, Wayne Goss was the Queensland Premier, and Bob Hawke was the ...
Below the modern West End apartment blocks, on a bend in the river next to Orleigh Park, sits a small, weatherboard building – home to South Brisbane Sailing Club. This year, SBSC celebrates 120 years ...
I’m Amy and I’m the Greens MP for South Brisbane. For the past four years, I’ve been fighting for full funding for state schools, fighting to protect green space, fighting for a freeze on rent ...
A Western Downs farmer, whose priority agricultural land-listed farm has been heavily impacted by coal seam gas-induced subsidence, has lodged an urgent request for ministerial intervention against ...
The Southeast Busway construction from the city to Eight Mile Plains cost $452.8 million (in 2001 dollars). Holland Park West busway station opened on 30 April 2001. At the time, the Queensland ...
High-density living is now a norm for many Australians, and in South Brisbane at the time of the last census in 2016[i], 63.7% of residences were flat or apartments. Living in a strata arrangement is ...
Robyn Newitt, Western Sydney University In the lead-up to the 30th anniversary of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody report, there have been four Indigenous deaths in custody in ...
The decision by Council to scrap shading on Brisbane’s Victoria bridge is short-sighted, and puts community members at risk on hot days. My organisation, Sweltering Cities, works with communities ...
The Westender recently wrote to the candidates for the Electorate of Griffith in the coming Federal Election. Read the response below from Liberal National Party (LNP) candidate, Olivia Roberts. Ms ...