General Articles
Energex stuffs garbage bins with stationery
While neighbouring businesses are losing thousands in trade, Energex in Newstead continues to fill dozens of their dumpsters on Cunningham Street with stationery.
Category: General Articles
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Development
Bleijie dismisses concerns over Olympics
As the deputy premier dismisses Olympic concerns as being from NIMBYs, Newstead’s urban transformation continues and Mike O’Connor finds lessons in an abandoned waterfront road.
Arts and Culture
New Farm author turns the page with new memoir
New Farm author Katie Delimon, who captured readers with her raw and vulnerable memoir, is planning to release a follow-up book exploring family secrets.
Education
Weighing up AI’s impacts at work and school
AI is a tool, a very powerful and useful tool. We need to teach and learn how to use it appropriately and ethically.
Business
Newstead businesses down thousands in Energex refit
Newstead small business owners are bracing for several weeks of lost trade after Energex shifted about 1,800 staff to work from home.
Education
Supporting children with screen time
Concerns arise when children’s screen time begins to replace activities that are essential for wellbeing and healthy development.
Arts and Culture
Art exhibition tackles AI questions
Beth Leach is part of a group exhibition, ‘Two Painters and a Potter’, at the Macleay Island Arts Complex, alongside the work of Therese King and Paula Bowie.
Arts and Culture
QMusic leader’s sudden resignation
Kris Stewart has stepped down from his role as CEO of QMusic, leaving a legacy of supporting local music he can be proud of.
General Articles
Queensland Rail whistleblower: new staffing model flawed
Queensland Rail’s (QR) revised working model will strand vulnerable passengers, blow out train timetables, and strip frontline safety checks from 300 stations.
General Articles
Brisbane sewage campaigner calls in top brass over stalled RTI
A dispute over the release of documents detailing untreated sewage discharges into Brisbane’s waterways has been escalated.