A still Tuesday morning. Emirates Flight 433 departed at Brisbane Airport on route to Singapore. Taking off over the populated South it turned to the North, tracking over St Lucia. Photo credit: AviationWA David Eyre At a time of the morning where background noise is minimal, the departing plane created the sound that likely woke 10's of thousands of people under the southern flight path. There was no significant prevailing wind, and the Brisbane Airport Flight Plan indica

Brisbane has the second largest residential vacancy of any capital city in Australia. In March, data from SQM research shows the vacancy rate is over 10, 000 properties for rent in the city, making up 3.2 percent of the market. Only the city of Darwin has a higher rental vacancy at 3.6 percent of the market. Other cities such as Melbourne sit on a vacancy rate as low as 0.6 per cent. The rental prices in Melbourne and Hobart are continuing to rise in response to the high dema

A Brisbane woman has admitted to spending hours sitting outside properties, day and night, trying to hear what it would be like to live there. She’s not alone, many people know what a property is like to live in, but are in the dark about whether the property suffers from intrusive noise problems. Anne Sweeney is a Brisbane resident who owns an investment property in Jindalee. It was purchased so her three children would have a place to live while they study at the University

Nobody wants to disturb the police on matters that are not urgent. Unfortunately in Australia however, the police are the authority responsible for managing amplified noise and the associated complaints. This works well for parties, especially if they begin to get out of control or if there is an imminent threat of violence. It also means that police have to take calls from all the other elevated noise problems, such as a loud radio or local band practice. Despite the police