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QPAC drops Newman joke after complaint

Geoff Ebbs /31 January, 2014

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre board has demanded in writing that a jokey reference to Campbell Newman was excised from the play, Australia Day, between the premiere and opening night. Writing in Art Hub today, Ben Eltham details the sequence of events that led to the censorship of the light hearted joke. The section that Continue Reading →

Following Dad

Geoff Ebbs /31 January, 2014

Dr John Ruberry joined West End Medical Practice in late January this year. Studying medicine was a fairly late decision, he tells Westender. Before that he had finished a degree in electrical engineering and spent some time in the air force, an experience that has been very valuable. “But I found myself wanting a bit Continue Reading →

Innovation grants for business

Geoff Ebbs /31 January, 2014

If you have developed and tested an idea and need help funding the process to take it to market, have a look at the Commercialisation Grants available from the federal government. The beauracrats reckon it is “It is a competitive, merit-based assistance program offering funding and resources to accelerate the business building process for Australian Continue Reading →

Absoe property still in play

Geoff Ebbs /31 January, 2014

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 →

Wow factor over weeties

Geoff Ebbs /31 January, 2014

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 →

Butler the New Face in Griffith

Jan Bowman /30 January, 2014

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 →