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The ever-popular Politics in the Pub, now in its 10th big year, brings people
together to share their perspectives and ideas on often thorny issues
confronting our community. There’s always an opportunity for audience
participation, so bring your ideas, your experiences and your opinions and
share the platform.
The next PIP's is..
see flyer
Fiddling While Rome Burns: Does Australia Need an
Emissions Trading Scheme? It's
seen off Turbull and Rudd - what
next for the ETS?
Where:
Turbine Platform, Brisbane Powerhouse
When:
7 October - 6 to 7.30pm
Speakers
Senator
Larissa Waters- Greens Senator
Michael Roche- CEO
Queensland Resources Council (QRC)
Dr Malcolm Roberts- Lecturer
and Climate Skeptic
Associate Professor William
Grey- The University of Queensland
Kellie Caught- Climate
Change Policy Manager World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)
The forum will be chaired By Michael Drummond
Release the Hounds! Is
Nuclear Power Playing with Fire?
When: 18 November - 6- 7.30pm
Where: Turbine Platform, Brisbane Power House
Previous one...
All That's Twitters Is Not Gold
was a successful night.
More photos of the night
here ...
one before that ....
High
Rise, High LIfe? - Report
 Our
Politics in the Pub on urban development - ‘High Rise -
High Life” - went off like a rocket at the Powerhouse last
Thursday (6 May 2010). At 70 plus the attendance was great
and the speakers were terrific, both knowledgeable and
challenging. We had David Hinchcliffe our local member,
local resident and stalwart supporter of diversity and
inclusion, Professor Peter Spearitt the well known raconteur
and intellectual from University of Queensland, Michael
Kerry the former grande fromage of Queensland
planning, Larissa Waters the Green candidate and New Farm
resident, and finally, another local resident and
Brisbane’s former First Lady, Mary Phillip, who entertained
us with stories about New Farm colour and diversity. While
all of the speakers agreed that we need to be careful to
ensure we maintain diverse and vibrant inner-city culture
there were some, like Professor Spearritt, who urged more
caution and argued we should not be too quick to assume that
high rise developers have community interests at heart.
Question time focused on the issue of population growth and
concerns about the fragility of our infrastructure, and we
had a lively debate about whether inner Brisbane can really
handle the growth our projections expect.
Our next
Politics in the Pub is ‘All that Twitters is not Gold’ on
22 July 2010 - It’s about social networking and whether it
enhances or diminishes interpersonal communication. Come
along and share your views!
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Photos from Intoxicating Times - Alcohol
in the City @ The Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm - click to
enlarge images
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Topics in the past have included:
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Climate Change in a changing economy
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Same sex marriage
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Safety in the Valley
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From left to right:
Navigating the political spectrum in contemporary Australia
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The Fate of Friendship in a Frantic World
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The Politics of Love
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Memorable Meals
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Homelessness
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The Politics of Property
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Candidates Debates
Political
Affiliations
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Farm Neighbourhood Centre works closely with all political parties and
elected representatives to achieve our mission, aims, goals and
objectives. Ask the person on reception to see a complete copy of our
policy on political affiliations. In light of this policy, we are not
affiliated with any particular political party.
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