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Best of Brisbane: Long weekend ideas
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Best of Brisbane: Long weekend ideas

We know the anticipation of another long weekend is almost too overwhelming to sit still at your computer, but spare a few minutes and you’ll be rewarded with our picks for the best ways to spend the Labour Day long weekend in Brisbane. more

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TEDxBrisbane performers announced for 2014
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TEDxBrisbane performers announced for 2014

Who would have thought that Brisbane would see world-renowned pianist David Helfgott, inspiration for the Academy Award-winning movie Shine, and national living treasure Bob Downe sharing the stage on the same day? This collision of worlds is set to become a reality at TEDxBrisbane 2014 in a day of music set to electrify and inspire. Joining David and Bob will be the incomparable Topology, an internationally recognised new-music quintet, Christopher Tamwoy, who returns to the TEDxBrisbane stage after conquering the Australian festival scene with his prodigious guitar stylings, and the infectiously funny award-winning comedian Mel Buttle. In its national debut, is the Queensland-dreamed Borrowed Verse. This Borrowed Verse performance will be a one-off collaboration between poet Herb Wharton, and front man of Giants of Science and The Gin Club, Ben Salter. And, still in her teens,… more