Events
Adults dressed up for Halloween. | Newsreel

Community

$500m Aussie Halloween no longer child’s play

One of America’s biggest events, Halloween, is taking hold Down Under with Aussies tipped to spend close to $500 million on the spooky holiday this year. New research
Read more 15 October 2025
Wine Tasting

Community

Good Food & Wine Show Brisbane in its 23rd year

The Good Food and Wine Show may just be the ultimate day out for food and wine lovers in Brisbane. Now in its 23rd year, the event is the country’s longest-running
Read more 14 October 2025
Horseshoe Hill Sunshine Coast. | Newsreel

Business, Community, Events, Property

Curves help shape award-winning Queensland home

A uniquely curved Sunshine Coast hilltop property is Queensland’s top home, after taking out the top award at the Master Builders Queensland Housing & Construction
Read more 13 October 2025
Melbourne Cup

Community, Events

Melbourne Cup lunches with tickets still available

It’s less than a month until the race that stops the nation so hold onto your hats and gather your sweeps for our roundup of the glitziest functions around Brisbane
Read more 13 October 2025
Caxton Street, Brisbane. | Newsreel

Business, Community, Events, Government, Local, Retail, Sport, Tourism

Caxton Street lights up for future Suncorp events

Sporting teams which grace Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium in future years will have their colours put up in lights. Brisbane City Council plans to illuminate Caxton
Read more 10 October 2025
Plantapalooza

Community, Events

Spring garden glow-up at Plantapalooza

Give your garden a spring glow-up at Plantapalooza and learn some green-thumb wisdom from expert horticulturalists on Saturday, October 11. The plant festival at Rocklea
Read more 9 October 2025

Health
Man sad and depressed. | Newsreel

Community

First trial of psychedelics to treat depression promising

Results from the first Australia trial of using psychedelics to treat depression have given hope for a new effective treatment. Lead researcher Professor Susan Rossell,
Read more 15 October 2025
QIMR Berghofer, Brisbane | Newsreel

Community

New Act boosts QIMR Berghofer breakthroughs

The speed at which Queensland medical innovation can benefit patients has been enhanced with the passage of new legislation in State Parliament. The Queensland Institute
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Professor Rajiv Khanna. | Newsreel

Community, Education, Health, Research & Science

First human trials of new brain cancer therapy

A new treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancers is set to be tested on people for the first time. Brisbane biotechnology company Cyteph, a spin-out
Read more 14 October 2025
People using computer in library. | Newsreel

Business, Community, Education, Health, People, Research & Science, Support & Services, Technology

6 million Aussies struggle to access internet services

Almost a quarter of all Australians have difficulty accessing the internet, preventing them from full participating in society. New research from UNSW Sydney found the
Read more 14 October 2025
Man wearing mask. | Newsreel

Community, Education, Health, Research & Science

COVID changes sperm and breeds anxiety in mice

A COVID infection can impact male sperm and lead to anxiety in offspring. A new study on mice, by The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Victoria
Read more 14 October 2025
Homeless mother and child. | Newsreel

Community, Federal, Government, Health, State, Support & Services

Jump in rate of family violence leading to homelessness

The incidence of family and domestic violence leading to homelessness in Queensland has jumped by almost 15 percent, exceeding the national average. New analysis from
Read more 10 October 2025

Sport
Caxton Street, Brisbane. | Newsreel

Government

Caxton Street lights up for future Suncorp events

Sporting teams which grace Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium in future years will have their colours put up in lights. Brisbane City Council plans to illuminate Caxton
Read more 10 October 2025
Woolloongabba, Brisbane.

Business

Go time to develop Gabba Entertainment Precinct

The procurement process is underway to transform Brisbane’s iconic Gabba stadium and the neighbouring former GoPrint site, in the city’s inner-south. Deputy
Read more 9 October 2025
Nat Cook | Newsreel

Appointments, Brisbane 2032, Community, Government, People, Sport, State

Experts set to advise Brisbane 2032 Board revealed

A trimmed down Brisbane 2032 Board won’t be lacking for expert advice, with the members of four new advisory groups now known. Less than three months after the
Read more 3 October 2025
Aussie Rules centre bounce. | Newsreel

Community, Sport

Extra bounce in Brisbane Lions as champions make history

The Brisbane Lions have secured a slice of history and will be the answer to an obscure trivia question forever more. The champion Aussie Rules side will be the last to
Read more 1 October 2025
Olympic gold medalist Nat Cook. | Newsreel

Brisbane 2032, Community, Sport, Support & Services

Co-funding call to light up seven-year Games runway

By Steve Zeppa A new co-funding model would help set up Australian athletes for success at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond. Sydney Olympics
Read more 25 September 2025
Sunshine Coast Lightning player. \ Newsreel

Community, Government, Local, Sport

GSF strikes on Sunshine Coast with Lightning takeover

The new owners of Sunshine Coast Lightning bring a strong local connection to region. Global Sports Fund Management Group (GSF) take over the reins of the successful
Read more 24 September 2025