Is anyone else tired of politicians grandstanding about youth crime while ignoring the conditions that drive it?

Underfund schools. Underpay teachers. Reduce public transport, isolating kids. Slash youth mental health services. Cut drug diversion programs.

Then we all act surprised when social problems emerge.

Instead of addressing the causes, politicians reach for the oldest trick in the book: scapegoating young people and selling fear.

When Campbell Newman did this back in 2013, we collectively called bullshit. I'm less hopeful now that media literacy has gone down and reliance on Facebook for news has gone up.

What songs come to mind?

My mother visited this park as a kid in the early 80’s and has been thinking about it since. We would love to visit but she has no idea where it is. Figured I would try my luck here and see if any one recognises it.

Our best guess is it’s in Brisbane or surrounding areas, however she’s not entirely confident It’s even in QLD.

Any help or advice in finding this park would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Genuinely. Because in what world does it take 1 hour 40 minutes to get from Beenleigh to West Ipswich not once but TWICE today, coming to a complete stop multiple times along the highway and when am not stopped everyone doing 30 below limit. That is insane. When is Brisbane going to fix their shitty public transport and get people off the roads 🙄🙃

Hi all,

My partner and I are considering putting an offer on a property in Stafford. Ticks almost every box, although has been on the market almost two months. Doing some research today I noticed the next door neighbour is housing commission and there seems to be multiple other housing commission properties in the street. I was wondering if anyone has lived next door to housing commission and if there's any advice/insights you can offer.

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Here's the latest public transport picture for every gazetted suburb within 20km of Central (205 of them), measured two ways: commute time to the CBD (morning and evening, vs driving), and how much service is within a 10-minute walk (routes and departures).

Some of what it shows:

Median commute is 52 min, but it ranges from about 7 min to over 2 hours. Postcode matters more than the kilometres.

1 in 17 suburbs have no practical PT commute to the city at all.

Transit averages 34 min slower than driving, but in 16 suburbs (almost all on a train line) it's within 10 min of the car: Toowong, Chelmer, Milton, Zillmere and the like.

Newstead can reach 54 routes within a 10-minute walk (train, ferry and bus). Plenty of outer suburbs get one, or none.

West End has only about 6 routes, but they run often enough to beat suburbs with a dozen. Frequency matters more than the number of routes.

A handful of suburbs you can get into the city from at 8am but basically can't get home to at 7pm.

Full data, sortable table and CSV available for download in the link.

Does this match your experience where you live?

Which suburb is better or worse connected than people assume?

With Cross River Rail and the Brisbane Metro coming online, which suburbs do you reckon actually improve, and which stay stuck?

Is this enough for an Olympic city?

EDIT: as of 8.27pm 17/07:

The thread found real, systematic problems and every one was legit. What changed:

I was measuring from the wrong point. The old version used each suburb's geometric centre, which for places like Enoggera sits behind the barracks, 1.5km from the station. It now uses the population-weighted centre (where people actually live), and the exact coordinates are published for every suburb so you can check them. The car was free-flow, not peak. Fixed to real peak traffic, plus a parking allowance, so it's door-to-door like the transit number. Times now show their working: walk + wait + ride. The ride matches the trip you know; the walk is the honest bit of getting to the stop. The 2-leg journeys were mostly the bad origin (fixed). The rest are real (some suburbs genuinely have no station of their own), and the mode chain is now shown so you can see it. Sanity checks now reject anything impossible before it publishes. Two things I didn't expect: once you count traffic and parking, public transport actually beats the car in 72 suburbs and is within 10 minutes in 152 of 199. And yeah, Upper Brookfield really is the worst.

There's a heat map now too.

Seems to be both.

This idiot made my parking a nightmare tonight. So many people had to queue up, since it's a single lane cos of it.

Between Exit 9 Gaza and Exit 5 Juliette/Cornwall

Shorncliffe station will reopen to train services and customers from Monday 27 July 2026 following completion of the station renewal project and accessibility upgrade.

I was a regular poster here on a different account back in the day but stopped visiting very often when I moved overseas, I just get most of my news from family and friends now. But they don't really say anything about the things that change because it just happens slowly I guess.

Sometimes they mention a new food or something and I'm like what???

I grew up in Brisbane and surrounds, mostly Northside (best side).

But it's now 10 years since I left, what do you think I'd be shocked about in Brisvegas?

I saw the changes to the roundabout at Petrie, it is now lights! And there is a water park type thing near the station now.

I think you now have a new rail or tram line?

Also, not Brisbane specific but I read there is a NCIS: Sydney and it's been going for a few seasons! Is it good? Is it popular?

I've also seen that the US giant utes seem to be more common now.

Anyway would love to here what you think I may be surprised about.

I moved to Queensland about 3 months ago. Living on Redcliffe Peninsula. Working close to the city. My thoughts so far:

( Before I start, to all those who want to comment "Go back to where you came from then you Southern c**t" blah blah blah, I've heard it all before, don't waste your energy, all you're doing is proving a QLDer stereotype, I will not engage)

People in general are awesome. So friendly and engaging. Just genuinely nice folk. Hospitality and retail staff especially.

It's fucking beautiful. The city, the suburbs the bay, islands and beaches. Gorgeous.

Public transport is shit. I know there's industrial action but even so; linking of services is atrocious and late night / early morning services are non-existent. You're gonna have to pick up your act before the Olympics. Plus the trains are weird. You need a freaking ladder to climb in and out of half of them and why the hell do I need to push a button to open the doors? 50c fares though, You can't beat that. EDIT: Button existence justified by commenters. Whinge retracted.

The roads are great! Barely a pothole. Nice and wide, well maintained. Bugger all tolls. Well signposted, Very easy to navigate.

Drivers.... Hmmmm. Courteous to a certain extent. But the tailgating trucks (let's face it. They're not utes, they're American style trucks) are prolific. But don't think for one second you're intimidating me with that shit.

Plus, is indicating optional here?

The amount of personalised number plates! 🤣🤣 Love it. There's some funny ones out there.

The weather: Duh... Obviously awesome. Middle of winter and I occasionally have to throw on a long sleeved shirt.

The cultural mix is different. I'm used to a lot of Chinese, middle eastern, Indian/Nepalese cultural influences. Here it seems more, Filipino, Pacifica, Malaysian. But also a lot more white than I'm used to.

Shopping hours. God damn it. Fuck your shopping hours!

Coles & Woolies shutting at 8-9pm?

Everything closed by 6pm on a Sunday.

Struggling to get a bottle of wine after 8pm at the best of times.

Restaurants only open until 8pm most nights. WTF?

Not as redneck bogan as the Queensland stereotype would suggest. I've seen some of it, but in general there's a lot more left leaning regular folk than I would have thought. But yes I know there's a big difference between SEQ & FNQ

Anyway. There's my observations. Even though I've listed more positive than negative things, I await your Redditor hatred.

Hey guys, I'm a 29-year-old guy from South Korea here on a working holiday. I'm looking for local friends who want to learn or practice Korean. I majored in Korean Literature and currently teach Korean online, so I can help you learn in a structured and fun way! I'd love to improve my English and share our cultures. Send me a DM if you'd like to chat or grab a coffee sometime. Thanks!

Just wanted to post an interesting witness statement that my mum gave me that she submitted to the Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption in the late 1980s - she had to adopt me cause she went to jail for whistleblowing and probably doing the wrong thing as well but it’s sad people like her never got justice from the state, and many adopted people suffered the consequences of the lies from the govt and police at the time.

I spent a few years trying to find her court documents from 1986/87 when she went to jail but I had no success at QLD Archives - not sure if anyone would know if they kept court documents of cases like this back then? If so, wouldn’t mind advice in trying to get my hands on them and how I might go about it. Thanks in advance 🙏

Att: Brisbane ladies

Seeking egg freezing / fertility recommendations in Brisbane. Recently moved and hoping to go via people’s good experiences. Thanks!

Saw some Australian White Ibis and Rock Dove at Anzac Square and Memorial Gardens.

Food and booze required

More than 14,000 rail services have been cut, since the industrial action took place in April. Even if the industrial action were to end today, it would take at least 3 months for the timetables to fully recover to normal.

After working in healthcare in Brisbane for a little while, Ive noticed how inaccessible some services are, either due to them being to expensive (or requiring ongoing sessions), or because they require people to do a big sign up process/aren't very welcoming. Just wondering if anyone feels the same way with health services (especially mental health support), and if anyone avoids reaching out for support due to these factors? Would more people participate if services were free (either gov supported or just people not looking to make money), and didnt require a huge sign up process where you feel like you have to go and pay for these services?

Looking for a classic wedding gown but on tight budget, best place you know I can get, buy or rent if there's any, around Brisbane City. Thanks!