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unusual facts about Grovely railway station, Brisbane



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.

A Fringe of Leaves

She is rescued by the aboriginal people of the island, and she later meets Jack Chance, a convict who has escaped from Moreton Bay (now Brisbane), the brutal penal settlement to the south.

Albert Brisbane

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.

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.

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.

Blackwater Airport

QantasLink was the only scheduled operator at the time with daily flights to Brisbane, with some services operating via Emerald.

Brisbane, California

Some of the larger office tenants in Brisbane are Cutera Inc.(Medical Lasers), IGN, Dolby, Tercica, Sing Tao, and Intermune.

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

Bruce L. Edwards

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).

Charles Crombie

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.

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).

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.

Deborah Priya Henry

degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, 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.

Edward Baines

Edward Joseph Baines, alderman and mayor of the Brisbane Municipal Council

Electoral district of Albert

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.

Electoral district of Aspley

The district is located in the north-eastern residential suburbs of Brisbane, encompassing Aspley, Bridgeman Downs, and Carseldine, as well as parts of McDowall, West Chermside, Lawnton, and Zillmere.

Giants of Science

They refer to their music as "nerd-core" and have been influenced by Split Enz Swervedriver, Sparklehorse, Superchunk, Brisbane underground rock legends the KT26ers, and Sonic's Rendezvous Band.

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.

HMAS Uralba

She was based in Brisbane as a minefield tender for a couple of years before moving to Milne Bay, New Guinea as a stores and armaments carrier.

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.

John Harsanyi

The degree allowed him to take a teaching position in 1954 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

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.

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.

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.

Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster

Many former Australian New South Wales Public Transport Commission and State Transport Authority Worldmasters upon withdrawal, were rebodied by private operators including Brisbane Bus Lines, Fearne's of Wagga Wagga, Menai Bus Service and Toongabbie Transport up until the mid-1980s.

Luke DeVere

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.

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

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.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

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.

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.

Raymond Evans

Raymond Evans (writer) -- co-author of Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History, see Carole Ferrier

Sara Fabel

As part of her studies, Fabel partook in an exchange program with Griffith University located in Brisbane, Australia.

Specky Magee

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

Spidercam

It was used for the first time in a test match at The Gabba in Brisbane during the 2012 South African tour of Australia.

Starcom IP Asia

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.

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.

Tokushi Yoron

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

University of Queensland Australian Football Club

UQAFC home games are played at the University of Queensland's No. 7 playing oval on the corner of Sir Fred Schonell Drive and Coleridge Street, St Lucia, Brisbane.

UQ Business School

Most of the school’s staff are located at the St Lucia campus, a 114-acre site located seven miles from the centre of Brisbane within a bend in the Brisbane River.

White-tailed spider

The misassociation stems from a paper presented at the International Society on Toxinology World Congress held in Brisbane in 1982.

William Dobell

Among private and other public holdings, examples of Dobell's work are exhibited in the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

Yumi Stynes

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.


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