Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
When Michael Shurman spoke at Delicious Sustainability last year, he presented one slide that showed small business generating the same percentage of the total GDP over the last century, despite continous bailing out of large business by governments, endless subsidies to have major corporations “invest” in the local area. Small business owners are continuously frustrated Continue Reading →
Brisbane City Council planning officers have enforced the legal planning scheme against a non-compliant development application (DA) in South Brisbane. Developers are watching this enforcement and subsequent court case will closely. Some developers have become accustomed to getting their way in South Brisbane that they have marketed and sold units off-the-plan without an approved DA. Continue Reading →
South Bank’s Cultural Forecourt will be transformed into a global village today as thousands of international students converge for Study Brisbane’s annual City Welcome Festival. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said that City Welcome Festival would be an introduction to life in Brisbane for more than 5000 new international students who were expected to attend. “Each Continue Reading →
In a post-modern version of William Burroughs poetry fragments 19 year old student Malinda Kathleen Reese has shot to fame with over a million views of her singing a version of Disney’s Frozen massaged through 15 iterations of Google Translate and liberally massaged and crafted by her creatively fertile mind. She credits two of her high Continue Reading →
Anybody who knows me, knows that I have been having a recurring nightmare – now more than ever – that we are entering A New Dark Age. And Jacques Attali, who was a professor of economics at the Polytechnique in Paris, and was appointed as the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Continue Reading →
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk is searching for the next crop of Brisbane’s most talented and innovative technology start-up companies. Applications will open on March 1 for round two of the Lord Mayor’s Budding Entrepreneurs Program, part of Brisbane Marketing’s Digital Brisbane Strategy, designed to provide practical support to young entrepreneurs to encourage more start-up success Continue Reading →