Queensland’s life-style and environment form a natural incubator for some of the most creative and innovative fashion designers in Australia. The Queensland Fashion Industry is thriving but many of our top and emerging designers leave the state to seek fame & fortune.

The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane (MBFF) is designed to support, encourage and promote the local fashion and design industry. This year the MBFF will be held from Sunday 26 – Friday 31 August 2007 and will provide a platform for designers to launch their Spring/Summer collections to the national fashion media, buyers and, importantly the buying public.

This six-day ‘consumer-driven’ event will allow as many people as possible to attend fashion & retail events, exhibitions, educational workshops and celebrations.

The goal of MBFF is to promote Brisbane as a city of fashion and style, to increase awareness for our local industry and ultimately to increase sales. Core to the MBFF objective will be to provide a platform for designers to launch their collections within a framework that aims to support and drive exposure for their label.

Celebrating seven successful years, the National Musicoz Awards have been launched for 2007. Musicoz is now calling out for entries for the 2007 awards that are set to be the best year yet.

The Musicoz Awards are the largestand most credible awards event for unsigned and independent artists in Australia and have resulted in many major success stories from previous winners including Porcelain, Bliss n Esso, Sender, Anthony Snape, Sick Puppies, The Fumes, Felicity Urquhart and Blue King Brown.

The Musicoz awards give vital recognition, exposure and development opportunities to Australian artists who are finalists and winners at this event. Artists are selected and judged by some of the music industries finest from major labels, independent labels, booking agents, artist managers and record producers.

Artists successfully entered into these awards have the opportunity to secure a recording deal, advertising packages, National TV performance, publishing & production deals and more. Artists wishing to enter one or more of 17 categories such as Pop, Rock, Alternative, Urban, Metal/Hardcore and Acoustic Singer-Songwriter, can do so online at www.musicoz.org . Entries close nationally on 31 August 2007.

On 10 December 2005 Professor Barry Marshall, Patron of the Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation, was jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology for a discovery which is responsible for making immense savings in health care worldwide and preventing untold human suffering.

The prestigious Barry Marshall Travel Award now forms part of the Fremantle Hospital Research Awards and will allow a Fremantle Hospital-based researcher to attend a national or international conference to present their research findings.

The Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation (FHMRF) invites applications from health professionals and scientists for two grants of up to $5,000 each for travel within or outside of Australia for the purposes of attending a conference/meeting to present the findings of research performed at Fremantle Hospital, to present a poster or similar. Applications close on the 31st August 2007.

The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is a community- based event that began in 1997 with a ‘beanie party’, organised by Adi Dunlop. In the early years, the festival was run by a group of friends on a volunteer basis. 

The festival was organised to sell beanies crocheted by Aboriginal women in remote communities. It has grown into a fun event where Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal artists share their culture and exhibit together. The festival is unique because of the incredible amount of community participation and our unique ties with local Aboriginal organisations.

The festival’s aims have always been to develop Aboriginal women’s textiles, promote womens’ culture and the beanie as a regional art form, as well as promote handmade textile arts.

The Alice Springs Beanie Festival Committee invites entries from artists for the exhibition, ‘My Journey’. Every beanie destined for the Festival is a creative journey for its maker that begins with an idea and some fibre or yarn. Their makers send them across land and sea to reach the Festival in Alice Springs each winter. Entries for the 2008 event are now open!

Ambiwerra Sports Fields, Corinda
5 August 2007

Get out your picnic rug and dedicate the first Sunday in August to some seriously great food from Brisbane’s top chefs and nosheries. You can also sample Australia’s finest wines or enjoy a glass or two of French bubbles.

From 10.30am to 5pm, the Ambiwerra Sports Fields on Erinvale Street in the suburb of Corinda are host to Brisbane’s best one-day food and music festival. Have a fabulous day with your friends, enjoying the finer things in life.

Check out the details here .

DJ G-Wizard & DJ Eko have opened the doors to Australia’s newest & most advanced recording studio establishment dubbed ‘Emerald City’. Home of the Wizard of Oz specialising in Hip-Hop & R & B.

Whether you want to record a demo, produce a hit or just pop in to check out the latest DJ G-Wizard projects in the works. For more info go to the DJ G-Wizard website .

An incomplete world features paintings and photographs by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Morris, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.

An incomplete world will highlight artworks that consider how we have shaped the world and our vision of it, and how the world we have created shapes us. The exhibition has three linked thematic groups: natural and built environments; portraits and people; transforming places. Over 50 works have been selected by 31 artists to represent these themes.

Below is ‘ 99 Cent’ , the photograph with a market value of $2.7 million. Check it out at the Art Gallery of NSW before the 29th July 2007.

Escaping the every day with that special person is something we all need to do more of, but how long do you normally spend searching the Internet trying to find that perfect love-nest?

The self-confessed hopeless romantics behind the new destination website, LoveBirds, have done the hard work for you and handpicked a collection of getaway options and heavenly escapes specifically for couples.

At LoveBirds, it’s all about two. Each property on  LoveBirds has been carefully selected by the website founders, and in many cases visited by them or their equally romantic – and trusted – friends who all choose to see the world through rose-coloured glasses and hope you’ll be inspired to do the same.

Do you have a project that improved safety in your community?

Is your project innovative in the community safety field?

Then the 2007 Safer Communities Awards are the recognition you are looking for.

The Australian Safer Communities Awards 2007 are sponsored by Emergency Management Australia (EMA) in conjunction with States and Territories. They recognise best practice and innovation by organisations and individuals that help to build safer communities across Australia.

The Awards are designed to recognise and encourage best practice and innovation across Australia’s emergency management sector, business, local government and community organisations. Any organisation can enter.

The National Awards will be presented at a ceremony in Canberra in early December. These winners will gain national and local publicity. EMA will consider helping fund the further development of winning projects which have the potential for wider application.

Be quick as entries close on the 3rd August 2007.

More than a third of voters are cutting spending to keep a roof over their heads, but are more inclined to blame fellow home-owners, investors and developers than the Howard Government, the latest Herald/ ACNielsen poll shows.

But even though the Government escapes complete blame for the financial pressure squeezing voters, there is no joy for the Coalition in the poll’s main findings. Labor maintains its crushing lead over the Government – 58 to 42 per cent, two-party preferred. And it continues to trounce the Coalition in the primary vote, 49 per cent to 39 per cent.

The Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, leads as preferred prime minister over John Howard by 49 per cent to 41 per cent, increasing the gap by two points since last month.

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