I thought I was conservative about music. Nevertheless, the “Antarctica” suite of Nigel Westlake truly mesmerised and took us ...

John Jiggens is a writer, former academic and a journalist, who was the founding editor of the Westender and The Cane Toad Times and who has been a 4ZZZ journalist over several decades. John was an ...

In Part 2 of her series, urban researcher Rachel Gallagher, talks about exclusionary zoning, what it is, and how it works.

Phil Heywood, a former QUT planning teacher and current member of community group Kurilpa Futures argues that a recent announcement by the Lord Mayor for high rise development on Kurilpa Point is at ...

As various new forms of public infrastructure are needed to cater for population growth, the result is often removal of our urban green spaces to make way for it. Reporter Jade Macbeth set off to ...

In a move that has shocked and angered many living on the Kurilpa Peninsula, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner yesterday announced a strategy to allow CBD-style heights for residential buildings in South ...

The Greens aim to transform Brisbane's public transportation landscape, with its Brissie Bus Boost, announced today. The Greens say if implemented their plan would be the most significant expansion of ...

Expert planner and former Director of City Planning at Brisbane City Council, Peter Cumming, has provided the Westender with the his view on Council's Kurilpa Precent Temporary Legislative Instrument ...

Crisis Support – Inner Brisbane Supports and Free Food Services. December 2023 Edition below. We are experiencing a housing and cost of living crisis nationally. The Queensland Council of Community ...

I believe in a fairer future for our community with a housing market that works for everyone, support for those struggling with cost of living pressures and continued access to well-funded healthcare.

The title of the upcoming multimedia exhibition, UnMasked, would suggest that it was inspired in reaction to COVID. But actually, the organisers say, the exhibition was in the works well before the ...

Musgrave Park has become home to many people unable to find affordable accommodation. To many West End residents they may just be one of the signs of the worsening cost of living crisis, but one local ...