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Have a cat with your coffee: Brisbane cat cafe to open

Brisbane cat lovers could soon be sharing a frappucino with felines, with plans for a Cat Cuddle Cafe. A crowd-funding campaign to reimagine an empty shop space on Musgrave Road at Red Hill as a cat cafe is underway, with rehoming rescue animals its ... >> view original

Brisbane: How to irritate people in 25 easy steps

HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE IN BRISBANE. 1. Blather on about how Brisbane is still a big country town, and not a patch on Melbourne, Sydney or Paris. 2. Complain about how “bitterly cold” it is in winter here, while also echoing the above. 3. Hold forth at ... >> view original

Driver of ute which crashed into gas cylinders, caused explosion injuring 21 ...

The driver of the ute which crashed into gas bottles and caused an explosion injuring 21 people at a north Queensland cafe has been flown to a Brisbane hospital. The 56-year-old man suffered burns to 40 per cent of his body and has been unconscious in ... >> view original

Legacy Way: Fines to begin as Brisbane's slowest tunnel crawls to opening

Contractors building Brisbane's Legacy Way face massive fines from Wednesday because the tunnel is still not open, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said. The Legacy Way tunnel is Brisbane's slowest tunnel built 'per kilometre', compared to the Clem 7 ... >> view original

Cloud formation over Brisbane resembles blanket

It may have been a relatively mild morning on Tuesday, but Mother Nature decided Brisbane needed a blanket. Social media streams have been filling with pictures of the "Brisbane blanket", a cloud formation that resembled a big white doona being ... >> view original

How would you describe your Brisbane suburb?

The simple question posted on the bulletin board website Reddit has sparked a wave of both sharp-tongued and tongue-in-cheek responses from its quick-witted users. While they may reflect certain attitudes or even truths about the suburbs we live in ... >> view original

Firefighter injured in Ravenshoe cafe explosion flown to Brisbane with burns

A firefighter who was injured with 20 others in an explosion at a far north Queensland cafe has been transferred from Townsville Hospital to Brisbane to receive specialist burns treatment. A ute crashed into the cafe in Ravenshoe on Tuesday, causing an ... >> view original

The median house price in the Queensland capital has dropped 3.3 per cent ...

The Real Estate Institute of Queensland March quarter Market Monitor saw the median house price in Brisbane drop to $580,000 “after a brief flirtation of just one quarter” at $600,000. “The small drop, of 3.3 per cent, is largely due to flatter ... >> view original

NBN dials up new construction contract model

NBN has forged a new relationship with its construction partners, as the company rolling out the National Broadband Network shifts the attention from pure volume to quality and performance. The new contracting model, which was flagged by NBN last month, ... >> view original

Working until 70 a health struggle for over 20 per cent of us

The government wants Australians to keep working until they are 70, to reduce pressure on the aged pension, but new research shows that nearly a quarter of people now in their 40s will be too sick to stay in the workforce. Treasurer Joe Hockey last year ... >> view original