Busted bus routes If it seems that you have been waiting longer for the bus in the last 12 months, it may be because Translink has revealed that 8,000 bus routes in Brisbane were cancelled in the year to February. The City Glider Route 60 service from the Teneriffe Ferry Terminal to West End suffered […]
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Catherine O’Kane All Hallows’ School What are your school’s top education priorities?At All Hallows’, we focus on educating young women who live with integrity guided by our Mercy values. We equip our students with the skills to build positive relationships and develop critical literacy and metacognitive skills to become thoughtful, lifelong, resilient learners. How do
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Published June 2025 A mother and son duo are shaping a new retail and hospitality precinct near the Moray Street roundabout, through their wine bar, Grape & Grazing. Nineteen-year-old sommelier Oliver Summons said: “We are in the trenches for this corner. We hope to turn it into the Paris End of New Farm.” Both Mr
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Published June 2025 Local property development and building company Gardner Vaughan Group (GVG) is poised to consolidate their rapid expansion by putting people front and centre of their ethos. GVG Director Samuel Gardner said their aim is to “be known around the barbeque” as a trusted name in the community. Guy Gardner and Daryl Vaughan
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Published June 2025 Brisbane Fashion Festival will this year open with a runway on the brand new Kangaroo Point Bridge, while arts collaborations will include a Dangerous Liaisons- inspired gastronomic event at Layla Restaurant, themed to Queensland Ballet’s upcoming production. Returning to King George Square in the heart of The City from August 24 to
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Value wine is becoming a harder story to tell as production costs climb – but here’s one nugget that still delivers. Mount Macleod’s 2023 Pinot Noir is smoother than your uncle’s jazz playlist and twice as complex. A fresh, vibrant take on pinot noir that’s juicy with aromas of ripe cherry, red currant and driven
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My recent dining experience has taken me to Marble Korean Steakhouse at Portside Wharf, a dining precinct on the fringe of the CBD that boasts an array of dining and bar options. It was very pleasing to see it was bustling, with an open-air design that is elevated by the fine weather and evening crisp
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Published June 2025 They say the things you learn in childhood stay with you for life and that it is hard to break that early conditioning. I thought that recently when I heard that Brisbane City Council is considering an approval to rezone the lower southern edge of Montpelier Rd to add up to five
I told myself I was having an uncharted adventure (rather than a TripAdvisor small group tour) as we drove inland in the darkness from Puerto Escondido, Mexico. We boarded a boat heading into the unknown, looking to discover bioluminescence in a vast lagoon. Under a crescent moon, we searched the waterway for another twenty minutes
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Published June 2025 Noise is annoying, but worse, it impacts on both our physical and mental health. In our community it comes from many sources, especially traffic, planes, persistent dog barking, leaf blowers and construction. Urban noise is a significant public health issue where we need to protect human health and promote wellbeing from exposure
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