While technology increasingly offers us the potential to work from anywhere at all, it seems our cities are busier than ever if traffic congestion is any indication. Share some brave ideas for travelling, communicating and using energy, water, waste and other resource infrastructure in ways that will change our world for the better. Featuring AECOM [...]

This issue of the Brisbane Line explores ideas from the launch of The Brisbane Institute’s 2013 Brave Ideas for Brisbane lunchtime series, a series of forums that will provide an opportunity to share and shape ideas for this city. A City of Friendship Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk launched the series and provided both a [...]

Follow the mainstream media on any given day and you could be forgiven for thinking our world is full of problems. Perhaps it is. But at The Brisbane Institute, we believe our world is also full of opportunities. And we know from experience that our city, our state and our nation are filled with intelligent, [...]

With the recent appointment of Kieran O’Hea as Brisbane’s first Chief Digital Officer, the city has joined New York as one of the few cities in the world to have its own local government digital champion. It’s part of the Brisbane City Council’s ambition to position Brisbane as Australia’s new world city. A strong digital [...]