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20 unusual facts about Brisbane


Aurora Tower

The Tower is also close to shopping areas such as QueensPlaza, Queen Street Mall, Wintergarden and Elizabeth Street all of which feature shopping, restaurants, bars, and nightclubs.

Brisbane, California

Another story holds that it was named for newspaper columnist Arthur Brisbane.

Commodore Mine

The Commodore mine is an open-pit coal mine located near Brisbane in Australia.

Coronet Flats

Coronet Flats (also known as Coronet Court) is a residential apartment building on the corner of Brunswick Street and Elystan Road, New Farm, Queensland, Australia.

Deep Blue Orchestra

The Deep Blue Orchestra, based in Australia, is a Brisbane based musical group which combines an orchestra with electronic music, visual projections and choreography.

Fair Work Ombudsman

The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman has offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and many regional locations.

FEI Company

The company has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China PRC;Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; and Brisbane, Australia.

George Firth Scott

On 4 October 1889 he married Ailleen Murphy at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane.

Hellenic Journal

Based in Brisbane, California, it focuses primarily on cultural news events across the west coast.

Henry Chester

Chester died in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 3 October 1914; he was survived by two of his three sons.

Kangaroo Point, Queensland

In 1887, the Yungaba Immigration Centre was built on Main Street at Kangaroo Point to replace the poor facilities at the existing centre in William Street.

Lisa Gasteen National Opera School

It takes place in late-Spring and early-Summer in Brisbane, Queensland at venues provided by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Music of Brisbane

Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues.

Newmarket railway station

Newmarket railway station, Brisbane, a station serving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Post Office Square

Post Office Square, Brisbane - Post Office Square in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Queensland Wind and Brass

The group performs at venues throughout Brisbane including New Farm Park, Queen Street Mall, South Bank Parklands and the Old Museum Building.

Sister Philippa Brazill

She completed her training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane.

Track 5

Adam Lovell was born in Brisbane and comes from a background in circus and theater while Paul Vercoe was born in rural Victoria and has classical training in piano and choirs.

University of Queensland Art Museum

The inaugural exhibition of the collection was held in 1945 in George Street.

William Street, Brisbane

Also in the area is the Commissariat Store which was built by convicts in 1829, making it one of Brisbane's oldest surviving buildings.


1992 Queensland storms

The Bureau of Meteorology radar picked up a series of cells to the north-west of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, and the data suggested that there was a possibility of large hail.

2006–07 Australian region cyclone season

With the first advice, a cyclone watch was immediately declared for the Queensland coast between Ayr and St Lawrence, and TCWC Brisbane upgraded the low to Tropical Cyclone Odette on 3 March.

2011 Brisbane International

The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland.

Australian Autobus

Australian Autobus was an Australian bus manufacturer based in Slacks Creek, Brisbane.

Australian Webstream Awards

The inaugural event took place on the 16th of November 2013 at the Metro Arts Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland, in partnership with the Gold Coast Film Festival.

Bell Hughes Music Group

Other Success includes discovering and signing the publishing of Brisbane Jazz cross over artist Mark Sholtez.

Billy Bowden

Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.

Brian Faehse

Faehse represented South Australia with distinction 19 times between 1948 and 1956 and played in the 1950 (Brisbane), 1953 (Adelaide) and 1956 (Perth) Australian National Football Carnival's.

Campbell Rose

Campbell moved to Brisbane in early 1999, as Chief Executive of the 2001 Goodwill Games - The Ted Turner initiative to bring the world's best athletes together to compete in good will.

Central Plaza 1, Brisbane

Construction was completed in 1988 and it became synonymous with Australian Bicentenary and World Expo '88 Brisbane.

Chelmer, Queensland

Laurel Avenue is considered one of the most prestigious addresses in Brisbane by some, for the reason that large portions of the avenue are overhung by large camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) trees (some over a hundred years old).

Citipointe Christian College

Citipointe Christian College, previously known as Christian Outreach College Brisbane (COCB), is a Christian independent day school located in Carindale, Queensland.

Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers

By the year 2000, Brisbane was fast growing as an alternative for business from Sydney and Melbourne as major international companies such as Virgin Australia, Boeing Australia, Mincom Limited and Billabong (clothing) set up their head offices in Queensland.

Edward Joseph Baines

Edward Joseph Baines died on 29 February 1880 aged 61 (or 64?) years at his residence, the Pineapple Hotel at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.

Ekka

The Ekka is organised by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA), and is held at the RNA Showgrounds in the inner-city suburb of Bowen Hills approximately two kilometres north-east of Brisbane's city centre.

First Tour of Australia

The band made a few television appearances including Hey Hey It's Saturday on October 27, Tonight with Bert Newton on October 29 and Sounds with Maurice Parker on November 3 before a show in Brisbane.

Freedom on the Wallaby

"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in the Worker in Brisbane, 16 May 1891.

Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival

The Festival is in the regional Queensland city of Gympie, just a two-hour drive north of Brisbane, along the Bruce Highway and a short 45 minutes drive from the beach at Noosa Heads.

History of association football in Brisbane, Queensland

The Challenge Cup was won by Corinthians (named after the famous English amateur football team) and the Charity Cup by Brisbane City I. 1915 also saw reporting of junior competitions: winners' trophies were presented to the "first grade junior, Rag Tag Club, second grade junior, Brisbane City II; third grade junior, Wallaby I".

Italian bee

1884 (Easter) introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia, sourced from Brisbane where they were previously imported in 1880 from Italy by Chas.

Jack Pesch Bridge

It was opened on 2 October 1998 by the Queensland Minister for Transport, Steve Bredhauer, and the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Jim Soorley.

John Willsteed

As a musician, he is best known as a member of the iconic Brisbane band The Go-Betweens, in which he played bass guitar from 1987–1989, most notably on the album 16 Lovers Lane.

Joseph Augustine Clarke

He was certainly a treasured teacher on Brisbane's School of Art, later a 'Drawing Master' at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, next to his work as a painter and as an illustrator (most notably for the Queenslander, and for 'Bobby' Byrne's weekly the Queensland Figaro).

Judith McGrath

Judith McGrath (born 21 April 1947) is an Australian actress born in Brisbane, Queensland best known for her long-running role as Von Ryan in the television medical drama All Saints on Network Seven, she spent many of her formative years training at Brisbane Arts Theatre and was a company member of Twelfth Night Theatre under theatre director, Joan Whalley.

Justin Lemberg

Born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Lemberg put in the best performance of his life to improve his Australian record by more than 2 seconds to claim bronze, just 0.56s behind the American duo of George DiCarlo and John Mykkanen.

Keith Virtue

They were in Avro 618 Tens, the City of Sydney and City of Brisbane, with Charles Kingsford Smith in the Southern Cross.

Kevin Humphries

He obtained a Graduate Diploma of Religious Studies (Grad Dip RE) through the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane.

Kirby Krackle

All proceeds from the sale of the EP are being donated to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia.

Linville, Queensland

During their occupancy of Colinton the Balfours built stockyards on the north bank of Greenhide Creek near its junction with the Brisbane River.

Michelle Scutt

Competing for Wales at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres, behind Australia's Raelene Boyle.

Monika Wejnert

At the Brisbane International Wejnert lost to finalist Marion Bartoli 6–1, 6–2.

Mount Isa Airport

On 22 September 1966 a Vickers Viscount aircraft departed from Mount Isa Airport with twenty passengers for a flight to Brisbane via Longreach.

Music of Brisbane

Brisbane punk rock, has information on Brisbane's seminal punk history from 1975 to 1984.

Narendra Singh Arjun

The Fiji Times reported on 16 January 2006 that Arjun had died in Brisbane, Australia, after a long illness.

Radiospongilla sceptroides

It was described as Spongilla sceptroides by Scottish-born Australian zoologist William A. Haswell in 1883, who discovered it growing on submerged wood in a pond in the vicinity of Brisbane.

Red-bellied black snake

It can be found in the urban forest, woodland, plains and bushland areas of the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide.

Saddled swellshark

The saddled swellshark is found off the eastern coast of Australia, as far north as Rockingham Bay in Queensland and as far south as Tathra in New South Wales, and perhaps also the Britannia Seamount near Brisbane.

School of the Arts, Singapore

Other arts forms also have exchange programs with the likes of the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries in Brisbane, Australia, and the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago, Illinois.

Souths

Souths Logan Magpies, a rugby league team based in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia

Specky Magee

He supports five AFL teams, something he cops a lot of flack for: Essendon, Brisbane, Collingwood, Sydney and West Coast.

Stinson Model A

With posturing from both AOA and Australian National Airways (ANA) to cut into each other’s turf by late 1936, early efforts by ANA to gain a controlling interest in AOA failed, until the tragic losses of VH-UHH Brisbane in the McPherson Ranges on 19 February 1937 and VH-UGG Lismore on 28 March halved AOA’s main-line fleet.

Stradbroke Island

Dunwich became a staging point where larger ships were unloaded of cargo which was placed into smaller vessels to be carried over the sand bars of Brisbane River and up to the penal settlement of Brisbane.

Terry Flew

Terry Flew is an associate Professor of Media and Communication in the Creative Industries faculty at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Tokushi Yoron

(1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

Tony Biggs

Tony Biggs has been the drummer in bands such as The Black Assassins, Never Again, Hell To Pay (Ian and Cathy from X (Australian band) with Spencer P. Jones), The Outer Limits (who opened in Brisbane for Iggy Pop on his 1979 Australian Tour with the New Christs), The Fuck Fucks and The Love Addicts.

Violent Soho

Violent Soho is an Australian band from the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield, Queensland, formed in 2004.

William Galloway

William McNaughton Galloway (1840–1895), mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia