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
Queensland Government lauds its success at “Delivering results and driving exploration success”. According to a Media Release just received from the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, key reforms to State Government mining permit approval processes and new service delivery targets are helping to achieve results and drive exploration success for Queensland. The Director-General Continue Reading →
Brisbane born actress Julia Billington has just landed a major role in the new independent Aussie feature The Trouble with E. The film is in pre-production and starts shooting on November 18th. In 2006 Julia left Brisbane to study at NIDA the prestigious drama school based in Sydney. Since then she has lived in almost Continue Reading →
Music lovers are invited to a live gig at State Library of Queensland, designed especially for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. On Friday 15 November, popular Brisbane bands The Gin Club, The Stress of Leisure and Jakarta Criers will take to the stage for 4Senses, a multi-sensory performance that uses sight and Continue Reading →
Origin Energy, the largest energy retailer in Australia, is actively blocking renewable energy, a new report finds. The report, “Strangling Renewables: Origin Energy’s campaign against renewable energy” produced by 100% Renewable, a community campaign for clean energy, and Greenpeace Australia Pacific, inspects Origin’s energy dominance and the company’s quest to strangle renewables as part of Continue Reading →
Michael Shuman is an advocate of local business and a community economist. He was in Brisbane this week to give a talk called Delicious Development that covered the reasons why local business is good for community and society as a whole. He opposes some basic tenets of traditional economic development beginning his talk by Continue Reading →
One of the most frightening aspects of the Luring RapeBait email that hit the news on October 9th is the entrenched positions it has exposed. The instructions for getting sex by alcohol and aggressive dancing offended all sensitive, caring people and anyone with a college age daughter. It also caused an equal and opposite reaction Continue Reading →