Former Premier of Queensland, the late Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was reported to measure the state’s prosperity by looking out his window in the Parliamentary Annex and counting the cranes on the Brisbane CBD skyline.
I have been working from a client’s office in the Brisbane CBD recently and it dawned on me — there is only one crane on the CBD’s skyline. What does that say about the current state of Queensland’s economy?
Only one crane on the Brisbane CBD skyline
Public art usually does not appeal to me. It is usually gaudy and abstract. The Guardian, though, caught my attention.
I was waiting to walk across the traffic lights on the corner of Ann and Wharf Streets in the Brisbane CBD. A towering, silver, dog-faced figure was waiting next to the crossing. It turns out the dog/man was commissioned by Lexicon.
Two tidy fixie bicycles in the rain beside Tall Short Espresso in the Brisbane CBD
A long back coffee from Tall Short Espresso