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Petition: Improve Public Transport for Kurilpa Peninsula

This content is from a petition published by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on June 19th, 2017. The petition received 1527 signatures, and is no longer active. Brisbane City Council has again...

Pedestrian Safety Improvements on Wellington Rd

This content is from a petition published by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on May 31st, 2018. The petition received 83 signatures, and is no longer active. Petition text: Residents...

Sign the petition for a new masterplan of Riverside Drive

This content is from a petition published by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on May 14th, 2018. The petition received 836 signatures, and is no longer active. West End Riverside Lands Park...

BCC 2022 Flood Investigation

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 25th March, 2022. BCC has initiated a reasonably broad-scope investigation into the 2022 floods, to be...

How could you enforce a vacancy tax in practice?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 28th September, 2021. Australian cities have a high proportion of empty homes - both apartments and...

Greening the Gabba Ward & Improving Food Resilience

This content is from a campaign run by the Gabba Ward office, alongside former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan, in 2020-21. Contents A community Response to crisis Food Sovereignty Food Resilience...

Creating Food Resilience Neighbourhoods - Community responses to crisis

This zine explains our ideas for how communities can create food resilience, produced by the Gabba Ward Office with former Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan in 2021. You can access a printable version here....

Creating Food Resilient Neighbourhoods

This content is from a campaign run by the Gabba Ward office, alongside former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan, in 2020-21. We were inspired by the spontaneous surge in people wanting...

A Different Trajectory for Brisbane's Future

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 18th February, 2019. I originally wrote this article for the Courier Mail's 'Future Brisbane' series in...

Where to Next for the Broadway Hotel?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 19th September, 2018. The petition referred to is no longer active. LATEST UPDATE: Here's an email...

Queen Bess Park Upgrade

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 13th May, 2019. In February and March 2019, we held a public meeting followed by a...

Carl St Park Concept Design

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 26th July, 2019. Council has released the final concept design for the expanded park at the...

Priorities for the Gabba Cross River Rail Station Redevelopment

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 10th December, 2018. December, 2018The State Government is just beginning its next round of ‘consultation’ regarding the...

Update on the West End Riverside Drive Contaminated Land Remediation

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 13th February, 2018. As I’ve explained to residents previously via email and social media, there’s a patch...

Email to Lord Mayor re: need to masterplan Riverside Drive Parklands

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 10th April, 2018. Below is the content of an email I sent on Monday, 9 April asking...

A public toilet block in Highgate Hill Park?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 17th November, 2021. The community vote referred to is no longer active. Looking for the online poll...

Climate change will kill millions: Time for a general strike?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 7th December, 2018. Let’s start with some hard truths. With a few notable exceptions, the Australian movement...

Why I’ve Decided to Name and Shame Real Estate Agents

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 13th March, 2018. Under Queensland law, landlords and real estate agencies are required to maintain homes...

Can Roadblocks Help Change the Political Climate?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 23rd July, 2019. 23 July, 2019 The clock’s been ticking for a while now. If we keep...

How We Helped Stop an Eviction into Homelessness

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 28th February, 2018. Brisbane, Australia, 2018 On Wednesday, 7 February, a woman reached out to my office...

Are Controversial Road Safety Protests Helpful?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 3rd May, 2018. The recent use of die-ins and other temporary blockades to raise concerns about pedestrian...

Peaceful Assembly Act - Organising protests without getting fined

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 28th September, 2018. Here’s some basic advice on navigating the rules for holding public rallies and marches...

What should we make of the Brisbane Metro project?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 22nd October, 2018. 23 October, 2018 Over the last year or so, a lot of people have...

Online Polling Integrity

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 25th February, 2021. I thought in the interests of transparency I should publish an update about this....

Alignment studies and pre-feasibility assessments for West End bridge proposals

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 11th March, 2021. After multiple unsuccessful enquiries and eventually resorting to submitting formal document requests, we’ve finally...

West End Bridges Consultation Results

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 12th May, 2021. Over the past few months, my ward office has undertaken a local consultation process...

Green Bridges

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 29th November, 2021. The online poll and community forum referred to are no longer active. Latest update...

Petition on speed limit

This content is from a petition published by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on August 30th, 2017. The petition received 524 signatures, and is no longer active. Too many lives are lost...

Transport and Infrastructure

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 10th November, 2021. For decades, our governments have failed to invest sufficiently in public transport. Fares are...

Whatever happened to the Victoria Street CityCat Terminal?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 19th July, 2017. Every so often, our office receives an enquiry about what happened to the proposed...

What does "good development" look like?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 6th December, 2018. As well as objecting to over-the-top developments, I wanted to highlight positive examples. The...

Building size, density, affordability and sustainability

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 30th April, 2020. Let’s compare these two buildings shall we? The tower on Scott St, Kangaroo...

Density is not intrinsically 'good' - it depends how you do it

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 8th June, 2021. I’ve gotten sick of responding to the same simplistic comments on social media over...

Yes, big developers do get special treatment – particularly in terms of safety and environmental regulations

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 28th September, 2021. Residents often complain to me that they feel like Brisbane City Council has one...

Understanding Infrastructure investment shortfalls

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 10th October, 2017. Right now in Brisbane, investment in local infrastructure and services like pedestrian crossings, parks,...

Spare Me The Economic Fairytales: Approving More Private Developments Won’t Improve Housing Affordability

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 12th December, 2017. Barely a week goes by without someone – usually someone possessing a condescending sneer...

Why Brisbane residents should maintain a healthy scepticism towards Urban Renewal Strategies and Neighbourhood Plans

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on October 26th, 2017. Neighbourhood plans and urban renewal strategies are major catalysts for change. Usually, such documents...

Who Gets a Say in the Design of Public Space?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 10th April, 2018. Different residents often have different, conflicting views on how particular public spaces should be...

Changing the system or is it changing us?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 3rd December, 2019. When we look at the dumpster-fire that is mainstream Australian politics, it’s obvious...

Freedom vs Government Control? (Part 2 of 2)

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 20th December, 2021. This is part 2 of an exploration into the Queensland Government's so-called 'vaccine...

Freedom vs Government Control? (Part 1)

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 20th December 2021. 20 December, 2021 Lately a few people have asked me what I think...

Fixing a Broken System - Practical Trajectories Beyond Representative Democracy

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 1st January 2024. In 2021, I published an article called "Fixing a Broken System - Practical...

How can we accommodate a growing population?

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 8th May 2018. The State Government’s South-East Queensland Regional Plan suggests Brisbane needs to build 188 000...

First Nations policy priorities at the Brisbane City Council level

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 30th October 2023. In terms of Brisbane City Council, there are three specific ideas in our local...

A public vote on the future of hireable escooters

This content is from a post written by former Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sriranganathan on 11th August 2023. A lot of people in our city have strong views about escooters. Some think...

Streets for People

Here's a zine to help explain our ideas for how transport in Brisbane can and should become healthier, cheaper and more sustainable, produced by the Gabba Ward Office with former Councillor Jonathan...