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 [...]

On Friday, 1 February, Lord Mayor Graham Quirk launched The Brisbane Institute’s Brave Ideas for Brisbane series with a brave idea of his own, as well as a challenge. Brisbane, he said, could be the international city of friendship, building a lifelong relationship with each of the 55,000 international students who live in Brisbane at [...]

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, [...]

Brisbane Line welcomes new editor David Mayocchi. A brochure in my letter-box from the Brisbane City Council asks if I have better things to do than sit in traffic. If I have better things to do, it suggests I use the Go Between Bridge. I guess it’s either that, or listen to one of the [...]