What: Acting Lord Mayor Graham Quirk explores the issues of planning for a growing city, and rebuilding Brisbane after the January floods. When: 6pm for 6.15pm, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 Where: The Polo Club, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane Cost: $20; Brisbane Institute subscribers $15. Registrations and prepayment essential. To register, click here. To subscribe to The Brisbane [...]

What: Continuing our series of population growth forums, we look at the opportunities and challenges for Logan, one of two regions proposed to absorb some of the people moving to Queensland’s south east corner When: Monday, 13 September, 6.30pm – 8pm Where: Auditorium, Griffith University Logan campus, University Drive, Meadowbrook.  Click here for a map of the [...]

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The Tony Abbott/Julia Gillard town hall double billing at Red Hill last night, pulled together quickly and smoothly by The Courier-Mail, threw up many issues that had seemed to have disappeared from the election agenda in recent weeks. An audience of 200 supposedly undecided voters, chosed by Galaxy Research, proved they were well-informed and genuinely [...]