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TAKE A TRIP BACK IN TIME ON A VINTAGE COUNCIL BUS

Here is your opportunity to ride on a vintage Brisbane City Council bus around the Brisbane CBD! On the weekend of July 9 and 10,...

BRISBANE THEN: REFRIGERATION IN THE RIVER CITY

What do fridges and Brisbane have in common? Throwback to 1850. This was when the concept that became the basis for refrigeration technology was first...

BRISBANE THEN: WHEN THE OLYMPICS BID BEGAN

Brisbane 2032 is officially official. It's happening. Secured by the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on a trip to Tokyo. But the river city's journey toward...

BRISBANE THEN: RIVER OF RUM

Sugar-cane-champagne. Brown, sweet and strong. The drink synonymous with the sunshine state. With ease-of-access to the best sugar in the world, building rum distilleries was...

BRISBANE THEN: BANYO

BANYO is a Murri word meaning small hill or ridge. The northside Brisbane suburb took the name from its railway station in about 1897, according...

BRISBANE THEN: BALD HILLS

Bald Hills is Brisbane’s northern outpost. It is Turrbal country, traditionally known as 'Wyampa' according to a 1933 Courier-Mail report, until Scottish settlers with surnames...

BRISBANE THEN: JINDALEE

Deep in Brisbane’s southwest is Jindalee, a name that would have meant nothing to the area’s Yuggera first inhabitants. Jindalee – ‘bare hills’ – is...

BRISBANE THEN: LYTTON

He coined the now common phrases ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’, ‘the great unwashed’ and ‘the almighty dollar’ among novels, plays and...
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BEST OF BRISBANE! OUT AND ABOUT IN AUTUMN AND SPRING

Get the best out of the river city with a few of our favourite seasonal Brisbane events! Brisbane foodies are in for a treat, with...

“GREEN MESSAGING GONE WRONG” – CLIMATE ACTION ATTEMPTS FUTILE WITHOUT FOGO.

Councils across Australia are constantly looking at ways to limit their environmental impact. Despite the efforts of some local governments, experts have said that some...

DOES COUNCIL’S ANNOUNCEMENT GO FAR ENOUGH?

Brisbane’s LNP Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, released a strategy for the growth of the city, which critics say doesn’t go far enough to ease...

OPINION: REFERENDUM ON THE VOICE WILL BE THE DEFINING VOTE OF OUR GENERATION.

Authored by Councillor Jared Cassidy, Labor Leader in Brisbane.  The Uluru Statement from the Heart isn’t something new, it’s the culmination of a lot of...