Alien invasion is an illusion
Foreign investment is not taking over West End according to Rob Honeycombe, a director of the Real Estate Institute and BeesNees Real Estate. Honeycombe is responding to recent reports that up to half...
View ArticleGuyatt Park takes on developers
Regular contributor to Westender, Jan Bowman, is now contributing to Radio 612 about her observations on the local area. She recently attended a community protest against a development across the river...
View ArticleKurilpa Riverfront Plan leaves residents behind
Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad has raised serious concerns that the LNP State and Council Administrations are leaving Brisbane residents behind after the pay-to-view launch of the Kurilpa...
View ArticleKurilpa Riverfront could be the new Southbank
Back in the 1980s the former National Party premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen cut a deal with private developers for South Brisbane’s land once Expo88 was completed. It was a secret affair done for special...
View ArticleHave your say on the Kurilpa Riverfront Plan
Brisbane City Council and the Queensland State Government launched the Kurilpa Master Plan at a Brisbane Development Association/ Business South Bank lunch today. The Master Plan covers an area of...
View ArticleBack to the drawing board for Kurilpa Riverfront Master Plan
Councillor Helen Abrahams, The Gabba Ward said that Council must go back to the drawing board with Draft Kurilpa Riverfront Master Plan following 300 guests at industry lunch laughing at the proposed...
View ArticleResidents slam Hong Kong style Kurilpa Riverfront Renewal plan
It was standing room only as 350 people crammed into the Souths Leagues Club in West End on Wednesday night to hear about the Kurilpa Riverfront Renewal Plan. They got what they came for, rousing calls...
View ArticleCasinos – what are they good for?
By Willy Bach In case some of us have not been watching, gambling casinos are not a sustainable industry. They are a relic of our profligate past. They are the dream that has turned into a nightmare....
View ArticleBicycle-truck tragedy leads to call for Cycle Safety Summit
The recent death of a Danish student, Ms. Rebekka Tine Lousdal Meyer, 22, has heightened existing concerns regarding the safety of cyclists on the roads of Brisbane. According to the police, Ms....
View ArticleWestenders Unite for Better Planning by @JanB_QLD
ARCHIVE OF A COMMUNITY DAY OF ACTION Approximately 300 supporters of sustainable development from West End and more distant suburbs such as Calamvale, New Farm, Paddington, Spring Hill, St Lucia and...
View ArticleSTORIFY: Brisbane2050: Imagining Our Future City by @JanB_QLD
Wonderfully refreshing, at a time when many residents feel shut out of development processes managed by Brisbane City Council, to be able to join with fellow Brisbanites to participate in a discussion...
View ArticleA New Community Vision for Brisbane’s Inner City – @KurilpaFutures
A year ago, proposals to pump 11,000 residents and 8,000 office workers into a new neighbourhood dominated by 54 tower blocks rising to 40 storeys were greeted by gasps of astonishment from the paying...
View ArticleCommunity Alliance calls for more time to consider new planning laws #QLDPOL...
Environment and community groups are calling on Minister for Planning, Deputy Premier Jackie Trad to extend the consultation period for the government’s draft planning bills, saying the community has...
View ArticlePeople power for better planning @WestenderNews
In August, a crowd of about 300 supporters at a West End rally called on the Brisbane City Council and the Lord Mayor to engage with local communities on development proposals through open...
View ArticleThe WECA year that was
WECA Annual General Meeting Report On Saturday December 5th, 2015, the West End Community Association (WECA) members and friends gathered for its Annual General meeting in the Uniting Church Hall....
View ArticleQ&A Session for local candidates
Local community organisation Kurilpa Futures Campaign has organised a pre-election Q&A session for next Wednesday night, where candidates for The Gabba Ward and Lord Mayor of Brisbane will be...
View ArticleEnd of an era for Visions Gallery
Visions Gallery to Close Old factories are not always just empty and unproductive eyesores: often, behind the peeling paint and cracked windows, they can be hubs of community creativity. The heritage...
View ArticleOur cities will stop working without a decent national housing policy
Our cities will stop working without a decent national housing policy Ralph Horne, RMIT University and David Adamson, The University of South Wales We have to move the housing conversation beyond a...
View ArticleJackie Trad responds to ‘Crisis of Trust’
Deputy Premier, the Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Local Government, and Planning and Minister for Trade- and Member for South Brisbane – Jackie Trad has responded to the article...
View ArticleFrom Bauhaus to our house – Urban design in Brisbane
“The modern building must be true to itself, logically transparent and virginal of lies or trivialities.” – Walter Gropius on architecture in the early part of the 20th century. Looking out of the bus...
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