Hard-hit tourism and hospitality hubs Byron Bay and Cairns are among important regional centres likely to emerge slowest from the economic rubble of the coronavirus crisis, says an international team of researchers.
When Tim Nelson, the singer of Brisbane band Cub Sport, saw the now much-derided video of celebrities such as Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell, singing an off-key rendition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’, he knew he, too, had to do something.
Since it first kicked off in the River City with a big bang in 2016, the World Science Festival Brisbane has become a fixture on Queensland’s cultural calendar.