Feeling ravenous? With a menu laden with all things meaty, Where the Wolves Eatin Morningside will give you exactly what you need to satisfy your inner carnivore.
Where the Wolves Eat is the latest venture of Mal and Danielle Watts, who also owns Moose & Gibson in Woolloongabba and Leaf Espresso in Tarragindi. Located on Wynnum Rd, the place is already a magnet for passersby with its covered courtyard filled with black and white chairs that give it that European alfresco vibe.
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Stepping inside the restaurant, bask in abundant natural light, thanks to the floor to ceiling windows. The exposed brick wall and timber beams give the place that cosy feel.
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Offering all-day dining, the restaurant has an eclectic menu with highlights such as green pea falafels, housemate flatbread, hummus and capsicum jam with poached eggs. A breakfast visit is mandatory if you happen to be in the area in the morning.
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The skirt steak with white bean puree, sourdough, shaved pecorino, chimichurri, blistered tomatoes and fried egg is also a winner and an ideal brunch meal.
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They also offer delicious and meaty burgers that will definitely fit any wolf pack’s appetite.
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Sweet pastries are also available from delicious croissants and varieties of bread.
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This is also a great spot to get your daily dose of caffeine. They source their coffee beans from local Hardy Boys.
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On the other hand, if you are not up for a jolt of joe, try something refreshing from their list of cold press juice, smoothies, and frappes.
If you’re coming from work with your buddies, they also have beer taps from Balleymore Brew.
Morningside locals have expressed scepticism over Brisbane City Council’sFuture Blueprint plan, which was intended to protect the suburb against future developments that do not adhere to the area’s character.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk has identified Morningside as one of the suburbs where townhouses and units would be banned under the plan.
Residents remain doubtful about the plan to preserve Morningside from inappropriate development due to recent townhouse development proposals and the overdevelopment happening in several parts of the city.
The BCC Future Blueprint gathered the opinions of over 100,000 residents and every suburb in the city has participated. Its principles include:
Create a city of neighbourhoods
Protect and create greenspace
Create more to see and do
Protect the Brisbane backyard and their unique character
Ensure best practice design that complements the character of Brisbane
Empower and engage residents
Get people home quicker and safer with more travel options
Give people more choice when it comes to housing
Brisbane’s Future Blueprint is supposed to restrict the establishment of such townhouses in areas for single homes.
The restriction of townhouses and apartments to be built in areas for single homes fall under the principle “Protect the Brisbane backyard and their unique character.”
The plan also clearly states that the council is determined to stop the establishment of townhouses or apartments in low-density areas that are meant for single homes. The council aims to preserve the space between homes by implementing minimum setbacks on property boundaries and by ensuring that all suburban developments are in line with the vision for the suburb.
Councillor Kara Cook was quick to point out two townhouse development proposals in the suburb that do not meet their City Plan requirements.
City Planning Chairman Matthew Bourke addressed the issue and said that the two development proposals in the suburb were submitted to be built on low to medium density-zoned areas.
Teaming up with Foodbank Queensland, the largest food relief organisation in Queensland, FareShare is getting ready to open its doors in Morningside.
Following their acquisition of the former biotech laboratory at 46 Steel Place in Morningside, Australia’s largest charity kitchen is only a few weeks away from cooking at its first location in Brisbane.
The $4.5 million custom-built, production kitchen is reportedly capable of carrying out FareShare’s goal of cooking five million meals a year by 2023.
Foodbank Queensland will work with FareShare in reducing food waste and providing healthy cooked meals for Queenslanders experiencing food insecurity. Together, the teams aim to cook 1.25 million meals in the first 12 months, gradually scaling up to reach their target goal.
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FareShare is now calling for Brisbane volunteers who will be willing to lend a helping hand in providing free and nutritious meals to those in need. Their new kitchen needs 300 volunteers to help in assisting their in-house chefs in preparing, cooking, and packing up meals.
The first shift at the kitchen will start in September 2018 prior to their official opening in October. Take note that volunteers must be at least 18 years old, unless part of a secondary school group.
The proposed collaborative brewing centre aims to serve as an incubator brewery for new brewers, contract and gypsy brewers. It will have a 200,000-litre capacity, a boon to local production, as a way to augment the output of brewers that need more capacity.
Brisbane Brew Partners also targets to suit hospitality chains looking for their own beer brands, as wells as festival and event producers who want to have an event-specific beer.
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Brisbane’s Burgeoning Beer Scene
One of Lockwood’s mission in building the hub is to support upcoming brewers who can’t afford to have their own brewery yet. The brewing centre will provide them with the capacity to brew their own beer so they can focus on selling them.
The facility will also enable interstate brewers to brew their recipes in Queensland for the Queensland market.
Brisbane is set to have a major boost in its brewing sector since, on top of the $15-million brewing collaboration centre, a $30-million riverfront brewery is also opening in Murarrie in the first quarter of 2019.
Lockwood is previously known for developing a successful chain of childcare centres when he and his wife couldn’t find quality childcare in their area. Guided by his principle, “If you can’t find it, build it,” the family established a family day-care of their own.
Applying the same approach to his brewing centre, he was inspired to boost the Australian craft beer scene by supporting Brisbane’s burgeoning brewing scene.
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Lockwood is confident that the development application will be approved. He is hoping that it will be given a go soon as the Morningside facility is scheduled to open in December 2018.
BrewDog will build its first Australian brewery at 77 Metroplex Ave, Murarrie. The development will include the construction of a 50-hectolitre, 3,000 square-metre brewing and canning facility capable of producing up to 10 million litres of beer a year over the first few years. It will also have a restaurant, taproom, and visitor centre.
Following the Council’s approval of the development, BrewDog Australia is now scheduled to start construction in July 2018.
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The site will have a 24/7 operation, however, as part of the Council’s conditions in approving the project, the food and drink shop should only be trading from 7:00 a.m. until midnight.
The development was tagged as code assessable and did not require a period of public consultation. However, one submission was lodged against the development saying that the application should be refused due to breaches in the City Plan.
The submission stated that the development should not be approved due to “three clear breaches of City Plan 2014 relating to proximity to existing retail outlets and shops, introduction of additional retail traffic onto local roads with a size and scale which is not low key in nature and exceeds the maximum gross floor area limits within City Plan 2014 for shops within industrial areas.”
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With the approval of the multi-million brewery, it is expected that the new BrewDog headquarters will create 150 jobs in the Brisbane area over the next five years.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018 with the first Brisbane-brewed BrewDog beer set to be released in the first quarter of 2019. The brewery is planning to have a major launch party with the local community and fans across Australia.
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Can’t wait to taste BrewDog’s brews? BrewDog Australia has teamed up with Beer & BBQ Fest earlier this year to collaborate with five leading craft beer breweries in Australia.
The results of the collaboration will be released at festivals on 29 June to 1 July 2018 in Sydney, and 6- 8 July 2018 in Adelaide. Visit Beer & BBQ Fest’s website to learn more.
Morningside State School has been included into the Queensland Heritage Register in April 2018, primarily for its role in showcasing the evolution of state education architecture in the early to mid-20th century.
Located on Pashen Street in Morningside, the school is characteristic of typical school buildings designed by the State Government during that period.
The school established in 1926 includes four Sectional School Buildings built from 1926 to 1930; a Depression-era Brick Infants School Building built in 1937; the Highset Timber School Buildings built from 1956 to 1957; and the World War II memorial to the Rats of Tobruk.
Architectural Treasure
Morningside State School is deemed a heritage treasure for its architectural and aesthetic significance. The Depression-era Brick Infants School Building showcases a beautiful façade and demonstrates high-quality masonry and design using natural lighting and air circulation. The building’s roof, joinery and decorative elements all represent the style of the 1930s era.
Highset Timber School Building (Photo credit: environment.ehp.qld.gov.au)
The Sectional School Buildings are representative of how timber school designs evolved in the late 1920s.
It also shows how the Department of Public Works considered educational and climatic challenges in coming up with lighting and ventilation design.
Historical Significance
The school’s historical significance is a major factor for being considered a heritage treasure. Aside from representing the culture and architectural style of the early to mid-20th century, the school also took part in important portions of Queensland’s history.
During the Great Depression that started in 1929, the Queensland Government provided relief work for the unemployed to counter the effects of the economic situation. Among the jobs made available were painting, repairs and grounds improvement works at the school.
In 1932, the construction of the Brick School Building was central to the government’s program to increase employment of local workers and buy local building materials.
When World War II broke out, slit trenches were built at Queensland state schools, including Morningside State School, to protect students from Japanese air raids. The school’s Brick Infants School Building became an emergency hospital for air raid casualties. Female students sewed and knitted items for the Australian Comforts Fund, whilst the Junior Red Cross brought gifts to a military hospital.
After the war, the school expanded as demand for state education grew. In 2014, an ANZAC memorial was constructed to commemorate the Rats of Tobruk. It stands to tell of the school community’s involvement during the war.
Today, Morningside State School continues to provide quality education at its original site. Its inclusion into the Heritage Register cements its importance as a key social focus for the community.
A variety of rides, attractions, arts and crafts stalls, student performances, great food stalls and more will be available for kids of all ages to enjoy.
Festivities start at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m. at the CHAC campus.
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The Wetlands Festival will include a market precinct offering a variety of homemade sweets, cakes, jams and preserves, as well as upcycled crafts, plants, and seedlings, recycled books, and clothing.
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Lots of fun rides and games will be available for the kids to enjoy including 360-Degree Dance Party, Dodgem Cars, Avalanche, Cha-Cha, Giant Slide, Cannibal Pots, Pirate Ship, Slam Dunk Basketball, and Jumping Castle and Toddler Centre. You can buy an armband to get unlimited rides all day.
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Several amusements will also be at the festival which includes a Dunk Tank, Body Art Stall, Little Animal House Petting Zoo, and more.
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Their 2018 Silent Auction will include the Festival Art Exhibition, a collaboration with the local community, for the first time. The Festival Art Exhibition aims to showcase the visual arts whilst giving CHAC students and community artists an opportunity to exhibit their work with those from professional artists.
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Proud paw-rents of adorable furries can enter the fun Virtual Pet Show. Simply upload your favourite pet photo and follow the instructions in the registration page. You can also vote for your favourite pet amongst the list of entries on the site.
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The Wetlands Festival is CHAC’s way of celebrating the natural environment of the Perrin Creek Wetlands. The event is a celebration of community, environment, and sustainability of the wonderful Wetlands area.
CHAC is the custodian of one of the last remaining stands of Melaleuca wetlands in Brisbane.
Morningside residents have been opposing several proposals for childcare centre developments in the area.
After a meeting held near the site for a proposed childcare development at 163 Richmond Rd, 39 submissions from the residents were received by the council indicating mixed opinions for the proposal. Whilst some of the residents support the proposal, the majority of the submissions oppose the development due to traffic and safety concerns.
Another application for a childcare centre development at 2 Richmond Rd is being opposed by residents for the same reasons.
Shayne Sutton, Former Councillor for Morningside had opposed the latter development application after its submission in 2017 and said that it is unacceptable. It has been requested to be scaled back since the plans for the 13-metre high, four storey building are in a three-storey zone with a 9.5-metre limit. Also, the plans do not include a required 5-metre dedicated space for a planned bikeway.
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Oversupply of Childcare Centres
Aside from these two proposals, three more childcare centres were proposed in the area. These are located at 83 Thynne Rd, Morningside; 52 Junction Rd, Morningside; and 527 Old Cleveland Rd, Camp Hill. That makes a total of five childcare centres being proposed in the area that will deliver 485 extra spaces.
According to the study, there are currently 156 proposed, approved, ang under construction childcare centres in Queensland. Once completed, these centres will deliver approximately 16,600 additional places. Only 33,000 additional places are required in the state between 2016-2036 and currently, there are already 27,729 available places in Queensland. If all the pending childcare centres will be built, the total capacity of childcare centres will exceed the 20-year projection by 34 percent.
With this, the ACA Qld recommended that the Council carefully analyse the need for new facilities, its impact on the community, and the implications for the occupancy rates.
Morningside’s Cate Campbell has proven to be unstoppable after setting the fastest swim in the Commonwealth Games’ Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay on Thursday, 5 April 2018.
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Campbell achieved her goal of winning gold in the Games, smashing the world record for swimming 51.00 seconds in the final leg of the 4x100m Freestyle Relay. Her record-breaking swim has unofficially beaten Swedish world record holder Sarah Sjostrom’s individual 100m freestyle clock of 51.71 seconds. Campbell’s performance also helped the Australian team set the world record for the event.
The star-studded Australian team, which consists of Cate and her sister Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon, and Shayna Jack, set a new world record of 3 minutes and 30.05 seconds, beating Canada by 4.48 seconds in the Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final.
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Australia was still outside world record time until the final lap, where Cate Campbell set the fastest relay swim. Her performance boosted the team to beat their own world record, which was set in Rio 2016, by 0.6 seconds.
Experts had predicted that Campbell will be unstoppable after her first gold win in the opening of the Commonwealth Games. True enough, she was able to bag two more gold medals in the Women’s 50m Freestyle Final and 50m Butterfly Final. Campbell set a new Commonwealth Games record of 23.78 seconds in the 50m Freestyle Final, 0.48 seconds ahead of her sister who won silver.
Another Aussie sweep in the 50m Butterfly! 🇦🇺 🇦🇺 🇦🇺
The legendary Campbell sisters gave another strong performance in the Women’s 100m Freestyle Final. Cate Campbell won a silver medal as her sister, Bronte Campbell, wins gold with a time of 52.27 seconds.
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In the Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final, Cate cheered her sister on as she anchored the team to win the gold and finish with a new Commonwealth Games Record of 3 minutes and 54.36 seconds. It was truly a great year for the Campbell sisters as they dominated the Commonwealth Games with their astounding performances.
Multiple world record holder and Morningside homeowner Cate Campbell once again earned her place in the country’s elite swimmers’ circle as she continues her decisive way to the Gold Coast Games.
Campbell heads south this April in her bid to collect five golds in her five swimming events — the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay, and 4x100m medal relay.
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At age 25, the Morningside resident has already established her name in Australian swimming. A veteran Olympian, swimming fans also remember her as one of the two sisters who reportedly were the first ever sisters to have clocked podium finishes for the same individual event in either Olympic Games or World Championships.
Cate Campbell, and her sister, Olympic champ Bronte Campbell, have been together in the water since they were toddlers. Since then, they have trained together and as the Commonwealth Games near, hopes are high that they will have another podium finish together.
Side by side in success
The Campbell duo were born two years apart in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa. They learned how to swim from their mother, who was a synchronized swimmer. According to their past mentors, their parents never pushed them into the sports. Rather, it was their love for swimming that led them to train.
The Campbell family moved to Australia in 2001. It was here that the sisters entered competitive swimming. Since then, the sisters have been reaping numerous awards from swimming competitions until their excellence inevitably led them to their winning streak in the international swimming arena.
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Their winning streak began in Beijing 2008 when teenage Cate won the bronze in the 50m freestyle.
London 2012 saw the first Australian sisters compete in the same event at the same Olympics when the nation rooted for them in the 50m freestyle. Cate, with her relay team, won Australia’s only gold medal in that Olympics.
In the 2015 World Championships, the world saw the siblings share the same podium for an individual event for a worldwide sports event.
This time, it was Bronte’s turn in the spotlight. She won a double gold in the event for the 100m freestyle and 50m freestyle. She was joined by her sister on the podium when Cate won a bronze in the 100m freestyle. Cate also finished fourth in the 50m freestyle.
The sisters continued their winning streak in Rio 2016, where Cate broke the world record in 52.78 s in the 100m freestyle as early as the heat event. However, buckling under the weight of expectations to get the gold, she finished 6th, a bit behind her sister who finished 4th.
They made up for it in the relay, where the sisters and their team broke another world record with their relay team in the 4×100 freestyle relay in 3:30.65 s, adding another pair of gold medals to their medal tally.
Sibling rivalry
Being in constant competition with a sibling whilst the world is watching is certainly never easy. Cate and Bronte, however, takes sibling rivalry in a different light.
According to Cate, she hates losing, except when it is her sister who defeats her. Bronte shares the same perspective. She says that if someone beats her in a game, she would rather it be her sister. She even jokes how not normal it was to be the third best swimmer in the world but only the second best in the family.
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In the upcoming Gold Coast 2018, each other’s presence would truly bring a positive effect on the sisters’ performance.
“Cate wouldn’t be as good without Bronte and Bronte wouldn’t be as good without Cate,” their coach Simon Cusack said.
