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NewsThe Rainy-Day Guide to Brisbane
When the weather turns wet, here's where to find bars with games, cosy cafes, indoor classes to try and nice dry galleries to shelter in.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Spend your weekend catching the last days of a luminous after-dark experience in the City Botanic Gardens, browsing around an adorable market for dogs and seeing Public Enemy live.
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NewsLittle Stanley Street's Two-Day Halloween Party Is Back for 2024 with Themed Cocktails and Free Outdoor Movies
This year's South Bank setup also includes themed markets, themed dining experiences, a ghost train and roving entertainers.
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NewsThe Best Caves to Visit Near Brisbane and Beyond
Crawl out of your living room cave and into these awe-inspiring ones.
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NewsFive Romantic Brisbane Date Ideas for This Week From Budget to Blowout
This week, you and your plus one can swoon over a rain-filled Cirque du Soleil show, then enjoy a boozy brunch beneath jacaranda blooms.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Week
This week, you can check out Spencer Tunick's first-ever Australian exhibition, catch Public Enemy live and watch flicks at the New Farm Queer Film Festival.
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News
The Rainy-Day Guide to Brisbane
When the weather turns wet, here's where to find bars with games, cosy cafes, indoor classes to try and nice dry galleries to shelter in.
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Guide
The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Spend your weekend catching the last days of a luminous after-dark experience in the City Botanic Gardens, browsing around an adorable market for dogs and seeing Public Enemy live.
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News
The Best Caves to Visit Near Brisbane and Beyond
Crawl out of your living room cave and into these awe-inspiring ones.
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News
Five Romantic Brisbane Date Ideas for This Week From Budget to Blowout
This week, you and your plus one can swoon over a rain-filled Cirque du Soleil show, then enjoy a boozy brunch beneath jacaranda blooms.
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Guide
The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Week
This week, you can check out Spencer Tunick's first-ever Australian exhibition, catch Public Enemy live and watch flicks at the New Farm Queer Film Festival.
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NewsFive Epic Mountain Walks to Try Near Brisbane
These scenic hikes not far from Brisbane will have you feeling like you're on top of the world.
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GuideNews You Can Use: Nine Things That Happened in Brisbane This Week
Here's what's been catching our attention, including a big revamp at Brisbane's oldest CBD pub, Laneway's dates and Valley Fiesta's return.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Brisbane This October
Eerie shipping-container installations, Oktoberfest shindigs, a neon-lit night market, Dylan Alcott's Ability Fest: they're all on the agenda in and around Brisbane in October.
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GuideThe Best Outdoor Events to Head to in and Around Brisbane This Spring and Summer
Tis the season to embrace fresh air, sunny skies and a jam-packed calendar of outside events.
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NewsThe Best Picnic Spots in Brisbane
Wait till the weather is just right, fill your esky with cold drinks and an oversupply of snacks, then get picnicking.
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News
Five Epic Mountain Walks to Try Near Brisbane
These scenic hikes not far from Brisbane will have you feeling like you're on top of the world.
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NewsHow to Spend a Day in Sydney, If You Love Japan
Start at the Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition at MCA and end with karaoke and arcade games.
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Guide
News You Can Use: Nine Things That Happened in Brisbane This Week
Here's what's been catching our attention, including a big revamp at Brisbane's oldest CBD pub, Laneway's dates and Valley Fiesta's return.
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Guide
The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This October
Eerie shipping-container installations, Oktoberfest shindigs, a neon-lit night market, Dylan Alcott's Ability Fest: they're all on the agenda in and around Brisbane in October.
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NewsJust Like the Brisbane Lions in the Grand Final, South Bank's AFL Live Viewing Site Is Back for a Second Year
This year, you can watch the year's biggest AFL game on the big screen at either the South Bank Cultural Forecourt or while enjoying a splash at Streets Beach.
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NewsHoward Smith Wharves Has Announced Huge Redevelopment Plans, Adding a New Overwater Pool, Hotel and Music Hall
The riverside precinct's ambitious transformation proposal aims to grown the already-popular site — but it still needs development approval.
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Guide
The Best Outdoor Events to Head to in and Around Brisbane This Spring and Summer
'Tis the season to embrace fresh air, sunny skies and a jam-packed calendar of outside events.
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News
The Best Picnic Spots in Brisbane
Wait till the weather is just right, fill your esky with cold drinks and an oversupply of snacks, then get picnicking.
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NewsThe Eight Best Outdoor Swimming Pools in Brisbane
Brisbane might not be a beach city, but there's always an oasis nearby beckoning you to leave work early for a splash.
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NewsIt's Time to Stare at the Sky: September's Big and Bright Supermoon Will Be Visible in Australia Tonight
You won't be able to see the partial lunar eclipse Down Under, but the latest supermoon is still lighting up the sky.
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NewsThe Ten Best Walks in and Around Brisbane
Wander along the river, climb a mountain, amble through bushland and trek over a bridge — all just a stone's throw from the CBD — at these walking and running tracks in Brisbane.
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GuideThe Best Markets in Brisbane to Eat, Drink and Shop Your Way Around Throughout Spring
Whether you're keen on street food, plants, local artisans, celebrating dogs or getting Christmas gifts early, there's a market for it in Brisbane this spring.
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EventFatboy Slim: Australian Tour 2025
Sun, 23 Mar, 2025
Sirromet Wines, Mount Cotton
The UK dance music legend is playing outdoor digs in wineries on his latest Australian tour, including at Sirromet Wines in Mount Cotton.
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Event$8 Movie Tickets for Hoyts' 115th Birthday
Sat, 12 Oct - Sun, 13 Oct 2024
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations
For two days, this cinema chain is celebrating its latest birthday with cheap seats to see 'Joker: Folie à Deux', 'The Apprentice', 'The Wild Robot' and more.
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EventFunlab Day of Fun
Tue, 22 Oct, 2024
Various Brisbane venues, Brisbane
Get putting, go bowling, mash buttons or work your way through a challenge-room hotel for $8 per activity — and help a great cause.
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EventBritish Film Festival
Wed, 6 Nov - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations
This year's showcase of UK cinema features Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield's new romance 'We Live in Time', not one but two Saoirse Ronan movies and Barry Keoghan's latest.
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Event
Trick or Treat Little Stanley Street
Fri, 25 Oct - Sat, 26 Oct 2024
Little Stanley Street, South Brisbane
Little Stanley Street's two-day Halloween party is back for 2024 with themed cocktails and free outdoor movies.
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EventLaneway Festival
Sat, 8 Feb, 2025
Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills
'Brat' summer is coming Down Under: Charli XCX is headlining Laneway Festival 2025, with Beabadoobee, Clairo, Remi Wolf, BICEP and Barry Can't Swim for company.
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EventUber x Red Cross Clothing Drive
Sat, 19 Oct, 2024
Various locations across Brisbane, Brisbane
Donate your old clothes to a worthy cause without leaving the house.
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EventDiscovering Ancient Egypt
Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - Sun, 17 Aug 2025
Queensland Museum, South Brisbane
This huge ancient Egypt exhibition featuring 200-plus objects is giving Queensland Museum a big blast from the fascinating past.
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EventSigur Rós: Orchestral Tour
Tue, 27 May, 2025
QPAC Concert Hall, South Brisbane
On the Icelandic band's latest Australian tour, they're pairing their ethereal tunes with 41-piece live orchestras.
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EventA Netherworld Halloween
Thu, 31 Oct, 2024
Netherworld, Fortitude Valley
To celebrate the spookiest time of the year, Fortitude Valley's arcade bar is hosting a dress-up monster mash.
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NewsThe Four Parks in Brisbane Where You Can BYO Drinks
Grab an esky, pack a picnic basket and go soak up the sun in these BYO-friendly Brisbane parks.
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NewsThe Best Things to Do On, By and Near the Water in Brisbane
From visiting overwater bars to sailing a picnic boat along the river, there are plenty of ways to enjoy our River City in spring and summer.
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NewsSix Scenic Hiking Trails You Can Enjoy Within 50 Kilometres of Brisbane
Climb a mountain, go looking for koalas or wander around a lake at these Queensland hiking trails.
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NewsNine Waterside Picnic Spots in and Around Brisbane That You Might Not Have Visited
Fill a basket with tasty treats and head to a hidden beach, suburban lagoon or scenic lake.
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NewsNow Open: Brisbane's $3.6-Billion Queen's Wharf Precinct Has Revamped the River City's North Bank
The 100-metre-tall Sky Deck, a luxe new five-star hotel, a heap of restaurants and bars: they're all open, with more venues and spaces to come.
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NewsCalling All Halloween Fiends and Mini-Golf Fans: Victoria Park's Spooky Putt-Putt Course Is Returning for 2024
For another year, you'll be able to tap, tap, tap your way past creepy clowns, zombies, ghouls and ghosts in Herston for almost two months.
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News
A Blue Supermoon (and the Last Blue Moon Until 2026) Will Be Visible in Australia This Week
Skygazers, it's time to look up — and this lunar sight is called a sturgeon moon, too.
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GuideSix of the Best Natural Hot Springs and Spas in Victoria to Visit When You Need Some R&R
Make the pilgrimage to one of Victoria's best natural hot springs and spas for some well-deserved rest.
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NewsYour Next Overseas Ski Trip, Sorted: Snow Machine Japan Has Unveiled Its Hefty 2025 Lineup
This alpine music festival is expanding to two Japanese locations, with Hakuba and Niseko both pairing live tunes with skiing, snowboarding and après ski in March.
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NewsP3 Recovery Is Rapidly Expanding Across Australia's East Coast, with Each New Site Boasting a Stack of Wellness Technologies
Either drop by for an infrared sauna followed by a dip in the hot and cold pools, or go all out by jumping in a hyperbaric chamber.
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NewsLook Up: Two Meteor Showers Are Putting on a Stellar Show in Australia's Skies This Week
What's better than one meteor shower? Two, thanks to both the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids both peaking.
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NewsHere's When and Where You Can Watch the Matildas' Quest for Gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Set your alarms: the Tillies play Germany, Zambia and the United States in the group stage, all at 3am Australian time.
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NewsNow Open: Levelling Up Your Self-Care Routine Is on the Itinerary at The Bathhouse, Albion's New Wellness Haven
Whether you're keen to soak, float or steam, you'll find a range of ways to relax at this European-style haven in Brisbane's inner north.
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NewsSouth Bank Is Turning Into an Olympics and Paralympics Viewing Site for the Paris 2024 Games
The inner-city spot's big screen will show the sporting action from 6am–midnight daily across both games, featuring both live broadcasts and replays.
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NewsYou Can No Longer Cuddle a Koala at Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary — But a New Close-Up Experience Is Coming
Patron feedback has indicated that visitors are "wishing to spend longer with the sanctuary's koalas and their passionate wildlife care team, without necessarily holding them".
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NewsFrom the Sky Deck to Sokyo, Here's When Everything Will Start Opening at Brisbane's New Queen's Wharf Precinct
Thursday August 29, 2024 is launch day, finally, for this $3.6-billion spot — with its spaces, restaurants, bars and more opening in stages.
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NewsDreamskape Is Melbourne's Huge New Augmented-Reality Entertainment Complex — and More Australian Sites Are on the Way
At this Aussie first, you can play your way through six activity zones across 770 square metres, featuring 100-plus games and 50 immersive experiences.
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NewsComing Soon: Monthly Farmers' and Artisan Markets Are Setting Up at Morningside's Rivermakers Precinct
This waterside spot has already hosted market pop-ups, and now will welcome 150-plus vendors from on the third Sunday of every month.
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NewsThe New Indigenous Story Bridge Adventure Climb Will Give You a First Nations (and Sky-High) Perspective on Brisbane
Artists Birrunga Wiradyuri and Jessica Skeen are leading the climbs, sharing stories about history, Country and culture in Meanjin.
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NewsThe Big Pineapple Has Reopened with a New Cafe and Viewing Platform After an Extensive Renovation
The train at the Sunshine Coast's giant piece of tropical fruit, which dates back to the 50s, has also been restored.
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NewsBayside Moments: How to Spend a Day in Brisbane's Coastal Playground
Explore Brisbane's seaside splendour with this first-timer's guide to the local hotspots.
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NewsComing Soon: Kangaroo Point's Long-Awaited New Green Bridge Is Set to Open by the End of 2024
What's better than one new green bridge opening in Brisbane this year? Two, with the second featuring an overwater restaurant and bar.
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It's Tillies Time: Here's When You Can Watch the Matildas Play Their Next Set of Friendlies Against China
Before Australia's national women's football team head to Paris to compete in the 2024 Olympics, the squad has two games on home soil.
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NewsFour Australian Cities Have Ranked in the Top 30 on the First-Ever Oxford Economics Global Index
Melbourne came in at ninth spot, Sydney is in 16th, Perth ranked 23rd and Brisbane sits in 27th place — out of 1000 cities around the planet.
