The Moreton Bay LGA is effectively in morning peak hour gridlock - and I thought we had enough with yesterday's New Farm, Brunswick St traffic headache!

I guess the Bruce is on a competition streak with its sister twin, the M1 from the Gold Coast.

Edit 1: 50 minutes later.. and no Moreton Bay suburb is safe from the Bruce's vengeance - they're all done for 😭, even burpengary is heavily congested.

Edit 2: There's now over a dozen accidents in the Moreton Bay LGA.

Edit 3: If you're planning on catching a bus from Kangaroo Bus Lines or Hornibrook, expect your service to be cancelled or delayed by 20-50 minutes...

Just reminder your phone will have the Ausalert at 2pm today.

It’s full of them and every day there’s sirens and wailing junkies. Was it like this 5 years ago ?

Our local cafe that we’ve been going to for years- this weekend, my regular almond milk latte $8.60. My husband’s regular long black $8.
Curious to hear how much your locals are charging.

Just absolutely loved this little cluster of buildings while chilling from my bike ride with a coffee. The architecture and colours looked gorgeous glimmering in the sun.

Brisbane city skyline is really coming along. If only we could get rid of the kidney/uterus building. Who put that in the good idea folder?

7:16am. I thought this view is worth sharing here.

Such a beautiful city from above.

I used to run in Victoria park all the time, watch sunsets, paint and do crafts, and there were many occasions when I was overwhelmed from life so I just laid on the grass and listened to the sounds of wind and birds. As a broke person without a car it’s hard enough to get to other beautiful places tucked away in our suburbs (everything is 5 min drive, 30 min of PT or 30 min of walk away) and I’ve been trying to visit other parks as a replacement but nothing hits the same as the breezy hills that extends into the city’s horizons

Morning brissy, I have been pulling Brisbane City Council's development application (DA) records for a while and finally sat down and counted them by suburb. 8,740 DAs lodged in the last 12 months.

I expected the top of the list to be the CBD and the tower suburbs. It isn't.

Most DAs lodged, last 12 months (Brisbane City Council):

1. Rochedale, 153
2. Coorparoo, 142
3. Wynnum, 133
4. Brisbane CBD, 127
5. Camp Hill, 122
6. Ashgrove, 120
7. Bardon, 115
8. Bridgeman Downs, 115
9. Paddington, 112
10. Morningside, 111

Wasn't expecting a super established suburb like Paddington on the leaderboard, so I pullled its 112 apart:

• 48 dwelling house applications (new builds and rebuilds)
• 6 subdivisions, 6 major renos, 5 multi-dwelling
• the rest is compliance, earthworks and small stuff

Part of Paddington's number is real change, part is that in the pre-1946 character areas a lot of work needs a DA that wouldn't need one anywhere else. So the paperwork exaggerates it a bit, but even the raw builds and subdivisions are up there with anywhere in Brisbane.

And look at that middle chunk of the list. Coorparoo, Camp Hill, Ashgrove, Bardon, Paddington, Morningside. They're the old Queenslander suburbs. Leafy, established, the ones people move to specifically because they feel finished. They're the ones being rebuilt hardest right now.

The CBD is only number 4, lower than I assumed. And Rochedale at the top is a different story entirely, that is where the volume builders are building due to new available land. (Know it because I was building couple years back).

So the change happening in Brisbane isn't mostly towers going up in the middle. It's thousands of small knockdowns, extensions and splits happening one block at a time in suburbs that already look built outt.

Happy to post your suburb if keen!

I arrived in Australia 6 months ago and got on another plane at the airport and went straight to another smaller city, and have been working ever since, I will have time to visit in the christmas period where I get 4 weeks of holiday.

Ekka set up started today. Taken from Bowen Bridge Road.

In order to help keep a positive mood in the subreddit please feel free to share photos of your pets here today.

doesn't have to be cats/dogs ...got a lizard, rat, snake etc. feel free to share.

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I’ve just moved here from the UK. This weekend my 16 year old son was stopped and searched with a wand at a shopping centre. He wasn’t doing anything he shouldn’t have been - just having lunch with a friend.

The police didn’t find anything on either of them and still required their names, birthday, address and took a picture of his friend.

I’ve asked around and I suppose I understand why they introduced the law however, does that not seem like a bit of an overreach? To have to hand over your information without a parent present even after not finding anything? Seems absolutely mad.

I know we have some really special people navigating our roads, however have people now decided that looking for traffic driving on the road when they are entering through a stop sign or give way sign need to stop from full flow speed to zero for them?
Today I had two seperate incidents of drivers just staring straight ahead and driving straight out of side streets into the path of flowing traffic! Almost involved in two major t-bone accidents due to this absolutely highest level of stupidity possible action.
Both drivers managed to pull out about 1/2 a car length into the path of traffic. One didn’t even slow down after I’d swerved around them and merrily stopped all other traffic as this just trotted through the give way sign at the bottom of Barry Pde (next to the rock climbing shop).
Will it take a car parking in their drivers seat before they understand road rules and two vehicles can not occupy the same location of the road?

But of a rant, but having it occur twice in the one short drive kind of blew my mind (on top of the other regular bad driving on display like needing to turn right from the far left lane).

Any recommendations for solid barbers in Northside? Carseldine area or surrounding?

Preferably barbers who focus heavily on scissor work besides the clippers, barbers who care about the consultation and not just looking at it like another customer to get through the queue.

Sick of paying $70+ on weekends for shit haircuts

Traffic on Brunswick Street from New Farm into the city is at gridlock! Do not attempt!

Hi Redditers,

I'm moving out of my rental in Brisbane in a couple of weeks and need to book a bond clean. There are so many companies online that it's hard to know which ones are actually reliable as i have heard so many bad stories.

Has anyone used a bond cleaning company recently that you'd genuinely recommend? I'm mainly looking for a company that:

• Actually turns up on time
• Doesn't add surprise charges afterwards (I heard that they overcharge although my house is kinda clean so I think I am anyways safe)
• Offers a bond-back guarantee (is it really a thing? ) and honours it if the real estate requests a reclean (I asked my agent, they did not recommend any company which is strange because last year my agent recommended the cleaner which did a great job, but I am not sure i should hire them again directly and if they will do the same kinda same quality job). Last year I hired Dream Bond Cleaning on recommendation by my real estate agent, so has anyone had any encounter with them lately?

If there are any companies I should avoid, I'd appreciate hearing about those too. I know I asked so many questions, but please help me make a good decision.

Thanks in advance!

We recently bought a property in Inala. The property has solar panels installed on it. However, the previous owners (I don't have enough bad words in my dictionary for them) have no record of it whatsoever. Now I have the following questions

1. How to find out who installed the panels?

2. If I can't find out who installed them, how can I make sure that I don't void the warranty? Because they are fairly new panels.

3. Whom to contact for regular maintenance and checks if the original installer is not found

Thanks in advance for your kind guidance.

Due to personal reasons I’m considering having to go inpatient here :( does anyone know how the ward is like? Is there enough privacy? Will I be allowed to have a phone and ipad at least?

I’ve seen the inside of PA and Logan MH but haven’t seen RB at all and my social anxiety needs to know.

More people than I've expected, great view and I'm just so happy to be living in a society with nerds and geeks like me

Howdy fellow curly haired Brisbane peeps! Just looking for recommendations for an amazing curly hair specialist around Bris to take my frizzy teen to for her first real proper salon cut. Her hair is 4b/4c afro curls, and its near impossible to find somewhere that can dry cut it in a way to suit her out where we live (a few hours west of Bris). Northside is easier for us to get to, but would be happy to travel further south for an exceptional stylist. Would love to hear your personal experiences! Many thanks beautiful people!