Last night, 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But what is inclusionary zoning, and will it contribute meaningfully to greater housing affordability in the state? In her three-part series, urban researcher Rachel Gallagher sets out to explain.

Did you know that The Westender has been published in West End since 1992, that it is one of the oldest independent community newspapers still being published in Brisbane.? It has been published ...