If you are a newcomer, please take the time to browse. Find out interesting things about our wonderful suburb and what our members are currently doing to try to retain its character and make it even better.

If you are an Auchenflower resident, you are invited to apply for membership yourself. We welcome people who value community spirit and maintaining Auchenflower&##39;s unique character and natural environment and would like to contribute to having a positive influence on it.

As ARA has no commercial or political affiliations, this website has no commercial sponsors and does not seek such sponsorship.

For this reason, you will find no detail with regard to local businesses such as shops, dining facilities or such-like. If you are seeking this kind of information for inner west suburbs, it may be found on the inner west chamber of commerce website here
and specifically for Auchenflower, it can be found here. However, these links take you outside the Auchenflower website so don&##39;t forget to return to this website to learn more about ARA and this suburb!

Sadly due to budget cuts, the &##39;Our Brisbane&##39; website is no longer available.

South East Queensland Floods -January 2011

As of March 2012 the Queensland Government flood information website was still to be found here and the Queensland Government Premier&##39;s disaster relief appeal donations information here

There is a website offering high res. aerial views of the Brisbane floods here and a website offering before and during (after the peak) aerial comparison pictures (by left click, hovering and performing mouse moves) here These were still accessible as of the beginning of November 2011.

EVENT!

Residents living within a couple of streets distance to Munro Street Auchenflower, are invited to:

Neighbour Day, Sunday 25 March weather permitting.

Come and join us for a casual garden party afternoon
to celebrate Australia’s 10 th annual Neighbour Day

at 84 Munro St from 2:30pm to sundown

Bring a chair, something to drink, some food to share
and relax in the company of other neighbours in our community,
so that we can all learn a little more about who our neighbours are.

Please let us know whether or not you can make it. 

Bill and Linda Phillips
38709766
billphillips@acenet.net.au
lindaphillips@acenet.net.au

ARA Presidents Annual Report for 2011

This may be found in the ARA Gazette, by clicking on the appropriate link under the heading below.

ARA Gazette, ARA Presidents Annual report and Notice of November 27th AGM for 2011.

Serious New Threat To The Australian Natural Environment

In recent years a serious new threat to native plant species was detected in NSW. This has now spread and is present in South East Queensland and has also been detected more recently in North Queensland.
This is an exotic fungal disease called Myrtle Rust.
It is important that you acquaint yourself with this disease as it threatens a wide range of our native flora.
Accordingly, please visit the appropriate page to be found here on the Queensland Government DPI website to find out more.

Of interest :

An article about "The Hidden Creeks of Auchenflower" can be found either through the navigation menu "organisation" then "Auchenflower history" and following the link on that page under the heading "waterways" or more easily clicking here. This page will of course remain and can be located by using the navigation menu when this paragraph and its link are removed later.

Northern Link

The Northern Link tunnel (Legacy Way) project his important project is back on track (there may be a more appropriate metaphor for a tunnel project -but I leave that up to you.....) which should ease the burden of traffic which currently flows through our suburb. Importantly and no doubt to the delight of many local residents in neighbouring Toowong, the secondary feeder from Croyden Street which would have meant a significant number of residences being resumed and major disruption, appears to have been shelved!
You may have been aware of the previous concern caused by the parkland opposite the Botanical Gardens having been earmarked for site workers&##39; parking. This issue appears to have been resolved by provision of parking at the underutilised Park and Ride area between Dean and Miskin Streets.
you can find out more by visiting the Northern Link website click here.

REMINDER! -Annual membership fees.

Just a brief reminder to existing members, Annual membership fees are due if you haven&##39;t paid yet. You may like to pay as outlined in the lower portion of the membership application page on this website.
N.B. It was decided at the 2009 AGM to rescind the decision made at the previous AGM to raise the annual membership fee and to keep it at $10.00 per household.

Australia Day Street Parties

Many Auchenflower Residents took part in street parties on Australia Day.

This helps keep the warm and friendly atmosphere that makes Auchenflower a great suburb to live in, and makes for stronger and safer community for all.

There will of course be one such usual event this year for nearby Auchenflower residents on Thursday January 26th from 5.00 pm onwards, on the footpath adjacent to 91 Munro Street. There may of course be such an event nearer to your residence as well.

Invitation notices for the Munro Street event will be dropped into mail boxes near the venue, if they have not already!

A Pictorial Record of Auchenflower
-a project launched in The Year of The Built Environment

The Auchenflower Residents Alliance initiated a project to create a pictorial record of all the houses and units in the suburb. This project began in 2004, The Year of the Built Environment and really should be ongoing. This is a community project, with the photographs being taken by members of the community, and displayed in a web picture album.

For the time being, this project appears to have become moribund because of a lack of contribution by ARA members and perhaps because it is considered less relevant due to the introduction of Google&##39;s street view. However, Google&##39;s street view will likely not remain as a snap shot in time as it will doubtless be updated as time goes by. So if you feel like contributing a view of the houses in your street which in the distant future may be historic...........

Learn about the project here

View the database of house photos here

ONLINE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AVAILABLE

The Auchenflower Residents Alliance Inc has an online membership form. - JOIN NOW !

The goals of the alliance are;

1. To develop community spirit amongst the residents of Auchenflower.
2. To positively influence the natural environment of Auchenflower.
3. To positively influence the built environment of Auchenflower.
4. To contribute to the safety and security of Auchenflower residents.
5. To be a credible, non-profit, non-political community organisation.