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
West End businesses have significant levels of support when it comes to interfacing with government. The West End Traders Association is a group of local businesses, mostly retailers in the strip shopping centres of 4101, banding together to support, organise and benefit from local activities. They meet at the Croquet Club in Musgrave Park on Continue Reading →
Clive Palmer ran his election campaign on a Mister Nice Guy platform that failed to mention one of the biggest environmental battles of our time, the coal miners versus the farmers and environmentalists in the Galilee Basin. Palmer’s vast China First coalmine was given clearance to go ahead by the Newman government during the election Continue Reading →
With an active farmers market and strip shopping centre, West End has more options for buying local, fresh food than most Brisbane suburbs. Local business Food Connect collects and boxes organic farmers from across the region and distributes it through a network of city cousins to time poor people. Local cafes and restaurants head off Continue Reading →
Coles West End at the West End markets has just undergone a revamp. Ice under the veggies, self-serve nuts and pulses, an olive and a fish display and lots of timber shelving in the fruit and bakery all conspire to appeal to the healthy, fresh vibe that we West Enders love. Manager Mark Van Den Continue Reading →
We hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common Yet we let the greater criminal loose Who steals the commons from the goose The fight by the rich to take the common assets of the people and control them for personal gain is as old as money itself. Continue Reading →
As my wife and I enter the newly opened Chinese and Vietnamese restaurant ‘Sing Sing’ in West End we are greeted by Loan, a member of the family who runs it. She grew up in West End and spent the first fifteen years of her life here, attending both West End State School and Brisbane Continue Reading →