Category: General news

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

Less than a month to go till WEFF!

media /18 February, 2014

The West End Film Festival (WEFF) is an Australian short film competition held in one of Australia’s most vibrant communities, Brisbane’s West End. Established in 2009, it was obvious that the Brisbane film community was crying out for a short film festival they could call their own. Now in its 5th year, West End Film Continue Reading →

Faiths come together to bless the soil

media /18 February, 2014

Early in 2013 Aunty Peggy Tidyman and a delegation of the local Logan Elders were invited to the Chung Tian Temple as part of building understanding between Indigenous and Buddhist cultures. Not surprisingly both cultures share a great respect for the environment and embrace the fact that we are honoured with the responsibility to care Continue Reading →

Business newsletter rebranded

Geoff Ebbs /18 February, 2014

Westender’s weekly business eNews has been rebranded as Business Voice. Westender now produces two free weekly eNews letters for the two different groups actively following the affairs of 4101. The Community newsletter now goes to a little over 7,000 subscribers every week. The new weekly business newsletter, Business Voice, focuses on technology, finance, management and Chamber Continue Reading →

Burning a billion years of sunlight

DrGikson /18 February, 2014

A new paper, released last week, measures the impact of burning fossil fuels on a geological timeframe. Doctor Andrew Glickson’s paper, Fire and Human Evolution, measures the amount of energy, carbon and oxygen stored or created by plants in early geological ages and its rate of release throughout human history. “Human respiration dissipates 2 to Continue Reading →

Queenslanders sing for Project Puccini

media /16 February, 2014

Opera Queensland today announced a world-first project to give nearly 400 everyday people in eight regional communities the opportunity to perform in the chorus of a new, professionally staged production of La bohème. ‘Project Puccini’ is a hugely ambitious initiative, which will invest $2 million into communities on the Gold Coast and Fraser Coast (Maryborough), and Continue Reading →

Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave

media /16 February, 2014

Collaborative artists Wilkins Hill (Wendy Wilkins and Wes Hill) have been working together since 2000, pursuing a shared interest in the phenomenological aspects of communicating meaning between an artwork and an audience. In Brainal Pipes Confusion Cave, the artists expand upon a series of works developed in Germany between 2008 and 2012, which stage obtuse metaphors Continue Reading →