Independent lord-mayoral candidate James Sinnamon writes about saving Brisbane's Regent theatre.  

In little more than a generation, Brisbane's skyline has been transformed into a ghastly inhuman wall of office blocks and high rise residential apartments. Today, much of Brisbane resembles a war zone as established business districts and neighourhoods are further trashed as this process is continued, along with a spate of more recent white elephant infrastructure projects, all at a horrific cost to our local and global environment.

John Enright from Logan has a beef about councillors going missing from meetings. He's sent us some letters he's written to the Albert and Logan News. Anyone else think their councillors are acting like part-timers? Drop us a line !

Comments in the paper late last year about attendance at Logan City Council meetings suggested this had proved burdensome for some councillors

While the article on December 7 noted the amount of meetings attended.  I started wondering how long councillors stayed at the meetings.

Rebellion is less than happy about the merger that has put Pine Shire, Caboolture and Redcliffe together. Cross-posted with permission.

There's always a relationship - whether antagonistic or cozy - between property developers and local councils. There's also an important and legitimate revenue stream that comes to councils when new property is coming on stream. Strewth! suggests that there could be trouble in Hervey Bay as the boom dries up.

Has the Hervey Bay development bubble burst? That’s the feeling of one builder who’s leaving town after work practically disappeared in the space of a week.

The bloke, who has to remain nameless, claims he has been flat out for the past few years but then, about a week ago, the jobs just dried up, in particular big apartment projects. Many of these, he says, have been mothballed.