Brisbane Festival is tuning up for one of its most dynamic years yet, today unveiling the full contemporary music program for ...

On a cold, blustery Sunday morning, the 8th of June 2025, the annual commemoration of the Myall Creek Massacre began on a ...

The QSO boomed last night, with the help of James O’Donnell LVO KCSG (who dusted off the Concert Hall organ and showed us ...

Derby Values - Fun First! The Derby is first and foremost a celebration — a joyful, ridiculous, and heartfelt community street party. It's not about raising money or delivering a product. It’s about ...

Last night, Michael Thacker shared seven huge paintings of transformers, the culmination of three and a half years of work, with a large crowd at the Woolloongabba SubStation. A boat builder by trade, ...

John Jiggens is a writer, former academic and a journalist, who was the founding editor of the Westender and The Cane Toad Times and who has been a 4ZZZ journalist over several decades. John was an ...

Phil Heywood, a former QUT planning teacher and current member of community group Kurilpa Futures argues that a recent announcement by the Lord Mayor for high rise development on Kurilpa Point is at ...

Crisis Support – Inner Brisbane Supports and Free Food Services. December 2023 Edition below. We are experiencing a housing and cost of living crisis nationally. The Queensland Council of Community ...

Expert planner and former Director of City Planning at Brisbane City Council, Peter Cumming, has provided the Westender with the his view on Council's Kurilpa Precent Temporary Legislative Instrument ...

Last week, the Brisbane City Council announced its intention to progress to the detailed design phase and initiate public consultations for the Toowong to West End Green Bridge. However, details ...

The Westender recently wrote to the candidates for the Electorate of Griffith in the coming Federal Election. Read the response below from Liberal National Party (LNP) candidate, Olivia Roberts. Ms ...

Local historian, Paul Granville, has been researching the post-colonial history of Orleigh Park in West End. This land, that supported First Nations people for many centuries was once described as, ...