Get involved in the ideas that will change your world in 2011/12, as The Brisbane Institute delivers a diverse and engaging program on topics affecting your life and the lives around you. Simply click on the hyperlinked titles below to find out more details, and to register your interest in attending. Some events are still [...]

In this issue: Industry Self-regulation of Food and Drink Marketing to Children: Is it Responsible? Carbon Tax, ETS, or Both? Preventing Chronic Pain Who’s Accountable in Queensland’s Parliament? Beyond Black and White Industry Self-regulation of Food and Drink Marketing to Children: Is it Responsible? Government regulation of market behaviour generally receives bad press, with critics [...]

In 1913, Eleanor H. Porter published the best-selling Pollyanna, which went on to become the first in a series of  “Glad Books” and an enduring children’s classic in print and film. Pollyanna’s philosophy of life centred on what she called the “Glad Game”, an optimistic approach of finding something to be glad about in every [...]