Lord Mayor’s Green Heart Photography Competition The annual Lord Mayor’s Green Heart Photography Competition challenges Brisbane residents to capture creative, emotive and inspiring images of our natural environment. This year we want to see how you interpret the theme ‘Colours of Brisbane’ through an environmental lens. Explore your local park, backyard or natural [...]
Brisbane City Council’s zipline experience at Mt Coot-tha is one-step closer to taking shape, with detailed designs for the project unveiled, as the project seeks development approval. Councillor Vicki Howard said the zipline would be the first of its kind in Brisbane, with three signature experiences of the Mt Coot-tha forest taking in [...]
Brisbane City Council is joining forces with Animal Welfare League Queensland to claw back on the number of unwanted cats, with more than 2,000 impounded in Brisbane’s animal rehoming centres last financial year. Residents can help reduce the number of abandoned pets by taking advantage of Council-funded discounts on pet desexing. Council [...]
Brisbane Metro is a high-frequency public transport system that will cut travel times, reduce Central Business District (CBD) bus congestion and improve services to the suburbs. With two metro routes operating every three minutes in peak periods, Brisbane Metro will deliver a network of turn-up-and-go services [...]
Youth Employability Program Do you know someone aged 17-25 who is looking to boost their job prospects? Council’s 2018 Youth Employability Program offers young people opportunities to develop their employment skills. The pilot scheme will focus on different topics to help participants realise their potential in the workplace, [...]
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has today announced a cracker line-up for the 2017 Valley Fiesta, with Brisbane’s The Jungle Giants and hip-hop sensation Fatman Scoop set to star in the event’s 21st edition. Up to 65,000 fans were expected to enjoy a packed program of music across three live stages in the Chinatown and Brunswick [...]
The Brisbane River is poised to benefit from $18 million of on-water infrastructure, with the Lord Mayor releasing designs today for two docking hubs to provide tourist, private and commercial short-term moorings in the inner-city. The hubs at New Farm Park and City Botanic Gardens are the first of ten city and suburban [...]
Brisbane City Council is upgrading lighting and widening the shared path on the North Brisbane Bikeway from Herston Road to Gilchrist Avenue, Brisbane. Construction has started and is expected to be complete in mid-October, subject to suitable weather and site conditions. The North Brisbane [...]
