Sign Up Now For Extra Green Waste Service

Councillor Jane Prentice is offering western suburbs residents an extra bin for green waste such as grass clippings and garden rubbish to reduce waste to landfill and protect the environment.

The voluntary user-pays service, to operate fortnightly, will be rolled out from April. Weste...

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CLEM7 COMMUNITY OPEN DAY - TICKETS EXHAUSTED!

A huge response has seen the public walkthrough on the CLEM7 Community Open Day on Sunday 28th February fully allocated.

This means the Community Open Day will be a ‘ticket only’ event with those who have pre-registered allowed to enter the event on the day.

We apol...

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PERSONAL SAFETY SEMINARS – FREE

Brisbane City Council has a strong commitment to the safety of all residents and workers of Brisbane, male and female.

To this end, the Personal Safety Project was put in place. This is a project offering gender specific FREE seminars and workshops in Personal Safety, Self Defence an...

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Brisbane Gets Express CityCat Services

Brisbane is about to get its first express CityCat service.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman and Cr Jane Prentice today unveiled the first of Brisbane’s new-look CityCat ferries, which has been coloured pink in honour of the fight against breast cancer.

The Lord Mayor teame...

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BCC Makes Roads Safer For Schools

Brisbane City Council is continuing to make the roads around Brisbane schools safer with another 16 schools chosen for $2 million of safety improvements for the year 2011 – 12.

Deputy Mayor and Infrastructure Chair Graham Quirk said Civic Cabinet had approved the schools to be targ...

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Go Between Bridge Spans River

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman’s Go Between Bridge now spans the Brisbane River after the final section of concrete was poured on the bridge deck today.

Cr Newman said the 300 metre long deck for the bridge, which links Milton and South Brisbane, actually consisted of two separate decks...

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St Lucia Bikeway Stage Two – Further Consultation

The St Lucia Bikeway is part of the Lord Mayors commitment for Brisbane City Council to invest $100 million in the bikeway network in just four years. It is an important link in Council’s bikeway network plan, providing a connection between Indooroopilly and the University of Queensland.
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Brisbane Leads Queensland in Caring For Land

Brisbane City Council’s Creek Catchment Ranger Program has scooped a major gong at the 2009 Queensland State Landcare Awards.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said Council beat all other contestants across the State for the ‘Local Government Landcare Partnership’ award, including the...

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Taking The Politics Out of Footpaths

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman is taking the politics out of footpaths by putting councillors in charge of footpath funding for their local area.

At least $23 million will be allocated to footpaths over the next 12 months – about $8 million more than this year – with the additional re...

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Brisbane Parks Cost $93 million

Brisbane is to get its next great recreational parkland with work to begin on the Karawatha Forest Environment Centre.

The centre will be built over the next three years in the middle of the 900ha Karawatha Forest, at a cost of $17 million. In addition, over $2.5 million would be spen...

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