Understanding that a few nights out from the election, candidates can be busy – even tired – it was still disappointing that not one candidate from either of the major parties attended the Left Right* Think Tank’s arts election forum last night. They missed a treat, and an opportunity to engage an audience of motivated, [...]

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 [...]

Australia’s think tank for young people, Left Right Think Tank, is hosting a pre-election forum this Thursday evening, 19 August, to engage young people more deeply in the election campaign around the issue of Arts and Cultural Policy. The Brisbane Institute is proud to support Left Right in this important event.  More information is available here.

In this issue: The Future of Townsville; The Western Corridor: Leading the Way in Planning for Population Growth; Regional Services Investment Needs to Support Regionalisation Agenda; Cairns: Pinning its Hopes on the New Deal; and Regionalising Australia. The Future of Townsville Policy makers have often payed lip service to the potential for growth of northern [...]