Month: April 2016

Rapid Response Wrecks Fire Festival for Visitors

Rapid Response Wrecks Fire Festival for Visitors

Posted by | Apr 23, 2016 | , , , |

The battle lines between West End’s spontaneous grass roots and our “no art, no heart, no-fun, no way” establishment were clearly drawn at the West End Fire Festival at Orleigh Park last night. Two Rapid Response Group vehicles with at least eight officers descended on the area, writing out $89 parking tickets for those tourists parked higgledy piggledy under trees and on nature strips in an effort to enjoy the packed event. Hundreds of locals and visitors have come thirteen times a year since 2006 to the south west corner of 4101 to enjoy the fire-twirling and drum circle...

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Motor Room and markets on the move

Motor Room and markets on the move

Posted by | Apr 22, 2016 | , , , |

One of Brisbane’s most popular markets and live music venues, Boundary Street Markets and the Motor Room, will move out of the historic Absoe site and down to road, across two favourite Boundary Street, West End venues The Boundary Hotel and Rumpus Room. The markets make way for the construction of several 15-story apartments, with an impromptu relocation event on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 April. Announcement of the closure, which was anticipated but only recently announced, has caused a stir amongst market goers and live music lovers who have become attached to the vibrant marketplace that hosts up to...

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Time for common sense on cannabis

Time for common sense on cannabis

Posted by | Apr 22, 2016 | , , , , |

While Prime Minister Turnbull pontificates about Australia becoming a country that is agile, dynamic and innovative, our drugs policy stagnates. It is stupid, stuck, unimaginative and only gets worse, as Qld Attorney-General Yvette D’ath seems determined to prove. In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau has declared that recreational cannabis will be legalised this year. Meanwhile in Queensland, the government proposes medical cannabis laws that won’t work and intends to underline the ‘dangers’ of cannabis by introducing laws to equate it with heroin and cocaine! Two of the activists who have campaigned to reshape Canada’s cannabis policy, Ajia Mae Moon and...

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Plastic pollution to be phased out, says Senate

Plastic pollution to be phased out, says Senate

Posted by | Apr 22, 2016 | , , |

The recently released report from the Senate Inquiry on Marine Debris has been welcomed by Wildlife Queensland (WPSQ) as a step forward in our understanding of the problems and solutions to plastics in the marine environment. Of the 23 recommendations contained in the report, WPSQ has particularly welcomed the positive recommendations on plastic bags bans. We have been campaigning for some time for a ban, given the devastating impacts that plastic bags have on native and endangered wildlife. “Evidence presented to the Inquiry has shown that littered plastic is an eyesore, a pollutant, a major threat to wildlife and...

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Happy Birthday, your Majesty

Happy Birthday, your Majesty

Posted by | Apr 22, 2016 | , |

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk took time out from a busy Parliamentary siting yesterday to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of Her 90th Birthday. Here’s Annastacia’s statement in full” On behalf of Members of Parliament I pay tribute today to Her Majesty the Queen who has reached another milestone – her 90th Birthday. And on behalf of all Queenslanders, I wish the Queen many happy returns and our very best wishes for her special day and celebrations. Over successive generations, the Queen has been an inspiration for many Australians who admire and hold her in...

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