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.
Another story holds that it was named for newspaper columnist Arthur Brisbane.
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Guadalupe Valley Creek is a small creek which flows east through Brisbane along the north flank of San Bruno Mountain and enters the Brisbane Lagoon after passing under the Tunnel Avenue bridge.
The Commodore mine is an open-pit coal mine located near Brisbane in Australia.
The Deep Blue Orchestra, based in Australia, is a Brisbane based musical group which combines an orchestra with electronic music, visual projections and choreography.
Fingleton was educated at St. Stephen's Cathedral School and All Hallows' School, in Brisbane.
The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman has offices located in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and many regional locations.
The company has research and development centers in Hillsboro, Oregon; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China PRC;Tokyo, Japan; Brno, Czech Republic; and Brisbane, Australia.
Ward was born in New Zealand the fourth son of the Rev. Robert Ward, a Primitive Methodist clergyman and was sent to Brisbane, Australia around 1867 as a Methodist minister.
On 4 October 1889 he married Ailleen Murphy at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane.
The freeway is part of the Melbourne to Brisbane National Highway (together with Hume Freeway) network and is the main link between these two cities as well as a major link between Victoria and inland New South Wales.
Based in Brisbane, California, it focuses primarily on cultural news events across the west coast.
Having grown up in Australia, he attended Padua College, where he played in the First XI as Goalkeeper and also played at Albany Creek at club level.
It takes place in late-Spring and early-Summer in Brisbane, Queensland at venues provided by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Newmarket railway station, Brisbane, a station serving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Paniyiri Greek Festival is held in May each year in Musgrave Park, Brisbane, Australia.
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She completed her training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, 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.
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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.
The 2011 Brisbane International was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Brisbane, Queensland.
He achieved a platform to espouse Fourier's communitarian theories with the help of New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who was impressed by Brisbane's ideas and allowed him to write a weekly article.
He transferred to Brisbane from Beaudesert, Queensland in 1989 and started his representative career for Queensland the following year.
Rochford moved to Brisbane, Queensland, for a brief period, where he was a surgical trainee at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
The next station to join the network was FOX FM in Melbourne in 1986, eventually to be followed by Sydney's 2Day FM and 4BK Brisbane for which the company was successful in converting to the FM band in 1990.
Australian Autobus was an Australian bus manufacturer based in Slacks Creek, Brisbane.
Other Success includes discovering and signing the publishing of Brisbane Jazz cross over artist Mark Sholtez.
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.
Some of the larger office tenants in Brisbane are Cutera Inc.(Medical Lasers), IGN, Dolby, Tercica, Sing Tao, and Intermune.
In the past, he has served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University, and as a Bradley Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC (1989–90), and as the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1988).
Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.
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.
He later moved to Brisbane to play with the Kenmore Bears junior football club while also playing for his school Brisbane Boys' College.
Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb - 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005.
Edward Joseph Baines, alderman and mayor of the Brisbane Municipal Council
Edward Joseph Baines died on 29 February 1880 aged 61 (or 64?) years at his residence, the Pineapple Hotel at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
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.
Its present boundaries, as at the 2009 election, take in mostly urban, semi-urban and industrial areas west of the Pacific Motorway extending from Mount Warren Park and Windaroo in southern Logan to Coomera and Oxenford in the outer northern Gold Coast.
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", 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.
After contributing lyrics and vocals to a song on Adam Franklin's solo project Toshack Highway, Riegler went on to collaborate with Lawrence English and Tam Patton (Full Fathom Five) in the Brisbane-based experimental/improv group I/O3.
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".
Key construction projects undertaken by the company are: The Brisbane Club; Waterfront Place; the Brisbane Transit Centre; the Broadbeach Monorail; The Oasis Shopping Centre and Hotel; The Suncorp Metway Building; the Stradbroke and Macleay Towers – Dockside; Cathedral Square; 313 Adelaide Street; and the Bank of Queensland Building.
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).
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.
He obtained a Graduate Diploma of Religious Studies (Grad Dip RE) through the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane.
All proceeds from the sale of the EP are being donated to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia.
During their occupancy of Colinton the Balfours built stockyards on the north bank of Greenhide Creek near its junction with the Brisbane River.
Millar grew up in the small country town of Kilkivan, before beginning her journalism career in newspapers, wit ha cadet-ship for the The Gympie Times and then Brisbane's afternoon tabloid newspaper, The Sun, until it closed down.
On 18 January 2011, it was announced by Brisbane Roar coach Ange Postecoglou on Fox Sports FC that DeVere would be leaving the club on a transfer to South Korean K-League club Gyeongnam FC.
It formed a more direct route into the city for Brisbane's southern system suburban trains than the existing route via Corinda.
On 22 September 1966 a Vickers Viscount aircraft departed from Mount Isa Airport with twenty passengers for a flight to Brisbane via Longreach.
In 1968, one of the first moves by the Council to support freedom of speech in Queensland, was when council president Jim Kelly supported Brisbane's first Nationalist Socialist Party meeting.
The Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association Inc (QGSSSA) is a sporting association for girls from eight private girls' schools, one co-educational private school, and one co-educational public school, based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Raymond Evans (writer) -- co-author of Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History, see Carole Ferrier
It can be found in the urban forest, woodland, plains and bushland areas of the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide.
As part of her studies, Fabel partook in an exchange program with Griffith University located in Brisbane, Australia.
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.
He supports five AFL teams, something he cops a lot of flack for: Essendon, Brisbane, Collingwood, Sydney and West Coast.
Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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.
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.
On 1 July 2011, Bob Irwin announced he was considering challenging Labor incumbent Kate Jones and Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman for the seat of Ashgrove in Brisbane, following discussions with Aidan McLindon over the impact of coal seam gas mining.
From August 2011 to August 2012, Stynes co-hosted 3PM Pick-Up with Chrissie Swan, broadcast nationally on Mix 101.1, Mix 106.5, Mix 102.3, Mix 106.3 & 97.3 FM.