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
Despite a number of missed deadlines and trips around the roundabout, the same players are jockeying for position to purchase and develop the Absoe site in the middle of West End. The plan, as Westender understands it, is for the building to be redeveloped as a mixture of housing, commerce and industry in a sensitive Continue Reading →
The South West Chamber of Commerce is breakfasting at the Loft again this month with marketing guru John Dwyer working up the Wow factor over breakfast at 7am on Thursday 6 February. John’s company assists business in developing marketing programs that have that Wow factor and he will impart the secrets of his success over Continue Reading →
Newcomer to the Griffith by-election, Terri Butler doesn’t have a profile in the electorate that could in any way equal that of her predecessor Kevin Rudd, and on top of that, she is up against a well-known and well-liked opponent. On the plus side, Ms Butler is new: this can bring its own energy and Continue Reading →
Anne Reid of the Secular Party is an accountant who works in the Griffith suburb of West End and lives in nearby Yeronga. She was the Secular Party candidate in Griffith in 2013, polling 0.51 per cent of the vote. She told No Fibs that her engagement with the people of Griffith “is at the grassroots level Continue Reading →
Inevitably in a two-party system, the media focus will be on the ALP and LNP candidates, and to a lesser extent The Greens. This is a pity, because voters can miss some very interesting issues that are often only prompted by the minor parties. Of the nine ‘other’ candidates, just two will be familiar from Continue Reading →
Queensland Health has issued an alert about yet another measles case yesterday in Brisbane. In West End on 22 and 23 January an adult male visited numerous stores on Boundary St, including a barber shop. In the morning of 24 January he visited Coles Supermarket. Then the Stradbroke Barge at 5 pm. Metro South Health Continue Reading →