This event is postponed. Please check back soon for the new date. What: A panel discussion exploring the future of Ipswich and its community’s hopes for the city; When: Postponed; date to be advised; Where: Metro International Hotel, South Street, Ipswich; Cost: Free event; Register to be notified when this event is rescheduled. To register, [...]

Live fast, die young? A youth survival guide What: Panel discussion chaired by Commissioner for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Elizabeth Fraser, and also featuring Jonty Bush, Elizabeth Cullen, Maggie Dent and Jacinta Hawgood; When: Tuesday, 29 June Where: Level 17, 53 Albert Street, Brisbane; Today’s youth are confronted with an array of [...]

The Institute has conducted a range of research activities over its history, including: • Seeing Brisbane 1881 – 2001, an exhibition of text and visual images, and accompanying book • Does the Queenslander have a future? publication • 200km city – from Noosa to the Tweed publication and exhibition • Defending the North: Queensland in [...]

In this issue: Hands Up All the ‘Not-So-Empty’ Nesters;   Pay Equity in the Community Services Sector;   Ignorance;   Is Politics Losing its Legitimacy?       Hands Up All the ‘Not-So-Empty’ Nesters; Affordable housing was once a cherished feature of the Australian way of life. But it is no longer so. A first home is now out of [...]