Michael Thacker shared seven huge paintings of transformers, the culmination of three and a half years of work, with a large crowd at the Woolloongabba SubStation. A boat builder by trade, Michael has ...

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 ...

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner this week revealed new plans to enhance the connection between the City Centre and South Bank. He said reinvigorating the mall and significantly enhancing the connection ...

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 ...

This Christmas, Dutton Park based Romero Centre will support over one thousand individual asylum seekers and their families in Brisbane. Support needs are growing, but there are many ways community ...

A lesson in bad planning, political agendas and when good intentions go awry. The campaign to ‘protect’ Holland Park West.

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 ...

We often hear various commentators tell us that Brisbane came onto the world stage with the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Expo 88. In fact the city had already been thrust onto the stage forty years ...

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 wrong side of the river”: Expo ’88 and the Right to the City – by Jon Piccini Text of a talk given by Dr Jon Piccini at a Right to the City/Brisbane Free Uni event, ‘More than Concrete and Steel ...

The State Government has released designs for a “massive” new pedestrian and cycle bridge as part of its Cross River Rail program. The bridge will be nearly half a kilometre long and will connect the ...

West End-based arts and culture organisation Metro Arts launched its 2023 season on Wednesday night at their New Benner Theatre in the West Village, outlining the year ahead for contemporary art.