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The Greater Springfield community celebrated the festival of Diwali earlier this month, with a special event taking place in Brookwater.

Community lights up for Diwali

Daniel Bouwmeester November 26, 2023 3 min read 0

The Springfield community celebrated the festival of Diwali earlier this month, with a special event taking place in Brookwater. Diwali is an annual Indian holiday that has become increasingly popular in Australia in recent years, and celebrates victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. The Springfield-based ‘Diwali Festival of Lights’…

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‘Field’ of dreams: our city turns 30

Daniel Bouwmeester August 26, 2022 6 min read 0

In August 1992, the nearly 3,000 hectares of topographically awkward bushland at the outskirts of Brisbane, west of Greenbank, was almost unknown. It was the sprawling estate of not much more than an abandoned tree-farming operation. It is incredible to think that, just three decades later, it is now home to the world’s 10th biggest…

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