The City of Brisbane is a
local government area
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...
(LGA) which comprises the inner portion of the
metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually ...
of
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
, the capital of
Queensland
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, Australia. Its governing body is the
Brisbane City Council
Brisbane City Council (BCC) is the democratic executive local government authority for the City of Brisbane, the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. The largest City Council in Australia by population and area, BCC's jurisd ...
. Unlike LGAs in the other mainland state capitals (
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mounta ...
,
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metro ...
,
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
and
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
), which are generally responsible only for the central business districts and inner neighbourhoods of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane
metropolitan area
A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually ...
, serving almost half of the population of the Brisbane Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA). As such, it has a larger population than any other local government area in Australia.
The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more than one million.
Its population is roughly equivalent to the populations of
Tasmania
)
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, the
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding township#Aust ...
and the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
combined. In 2016–2017, the council administered a budget of over $3 billion, by far the largest budget of any LGA in Australia.
The City derives from cities, towns and shires that merged in 1925. The main offices and central library of the council are at 266
George Street, also known as
Brisbane Square.
Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the seat of the Brisbane City Council. It is located adjacent to King George Square, where the rectangular City Hall has its main entrance. The City Hall also has frontages and entrance ...
houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the
Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the
Museum of Brisbane.
Wards
, the twenty-six wards, their councillors and their party affiliations were:
Suburbs
The City of Brisbane includes the following settlements:
Inner suburbs
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Bardon
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Bowen Hills
Bowen Hills is an inner north-eastern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the Bowen Hills had a population of 3,226 people.
Geography
Bowen Hills is by road from the Brisbane CBD.
Mayne is a neighbourhood within the s ...
*
Brisbane CBD
*
East Brisbane
East Brisbane is an inner southern suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , East Brisbane had a population of 5,934 people.
Geography
East Brisbane is located south-east of the CBD. It is mostly residential, with some s ...
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Fortitude Valley
Fortitude Valley (often called "The Valley" by local residents) is an inner suburb of the City of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. In the , Fortitude Valley had a population of 9,708 people. The suburb features two pedestr ...
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Herston
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Highgate Hill
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Kangaroo Point
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Kelvin Grove
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New Farm
New Farm is an inner northern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , New Farm had a population of 12,542 people.
Geography
The suburb is located 2 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD on a large bend of the Br ...
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Newstead
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Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Padd ...
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Petrie Terrace
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Red Hill
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South Brisbane
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Spring Hill
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Teneriffe
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West End
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Woolloongabba
''Total: 19''
Northern suburbs
*
Albion
Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically and generally to refer to the island, but is less common than 'Britain' today. The name for Scot ...
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Alderley
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Ascot
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Aspley
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Bald Hills
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Banyo
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Boondall
Boondall is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Boondall had a population of 9,217 people.
It was formerly known as Cabbage Tree Creek (after the creek that flows through the area).
Geography
Situated approximat ...
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Bracken Ridge
Bracken Ridge is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bracken Ridge had a population of 16,936 people. Geography
The suburb is located about north of the Brisbane central business district. The southern ...
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Bridgeman Downs
Bridgeman Downs is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It borders Moreton Bay Region
The Moreton Bay Region is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan city in South East Queensland, Aus ...
*
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
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Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport is the primary international airport serving Brisbane and South East Queensland. The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, in total amounting to more than 22.7 million passe ...
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Carseldine
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Chermside
*
Chermside West
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Clayfield
Clayfield is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Clayfield had a population of 10,555 people.
Geography
Clayfield is by road from the Brisbane GPO. Clayfield is bordered to the north by Nundah, to the east b ...
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Deagon
*
Eagle Farm
Eagle Farm is an eastern industrial suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Eagle Farm had a population of 0 people.
The neighbourhood of Whinstanes is located in Eagle Farm ().
Geography
Eagle Farm is situated no ...
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Everton Park
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Ferny Grove
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Fitzgibbon
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Gaythorne
*
Geebung
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Gordon Park
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Grange
Grange may refer to:
Buildings
* Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906
* Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682
* Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery
Geography Australia
* Grange, South Austr ...
*
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilto ...
*
Hendra
*
Kalinga Kalinga may refer to:
Geography, linguistics and/or ethnology
* Kalinga (historical region), a historical region of India
** Kalinga (Mahabharata), an apocryphal kingdom mentioned in classical Indian literature
** Kalinga script, an ancient writin ...
*
Kedron
*
Keperra
Keperra is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Keperra had a population of 6,807 people.
It is located by road north-west of the Brisbane GPO.
Geography
The railway line running east between Keperra, Grovely, O ...
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Lutwyche
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McDowall
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Mitchelton
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Myrtletown
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Newmarket
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Northgate
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Nudgee
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Nudgee Beach
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Nundah
Nundah (previously called German Station) is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It contains the neighbourhood of Toombul. In the , Nundah had a population of 12,141 people.
Prior to European settlement, Nundah was i ...
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Pinkenba
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Sandgate
*
Shorncliffe
*
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in th ...
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Stafford Heights
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Taigum
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
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Wavell Heights
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Wilston
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Windsor
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Wooloowin
Wooloowin is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wooloowin had a population of 3,938 people.
Geography
Wooloowin is an inner-north suburb of Brisbane, Australia located approximately 5–6 km north of the ...
*
Zillmere
Zillmere is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Zillmere had a population of 8,967 people.
Geography
As at 2008, Zillmere was approximately 60% residential and 40% industrial.
History
The Turrbal people occupie ...
''Total: 50''
Southern suburbs
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Acacia Ridge
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Algester
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Annerley
Annerley is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Annerley had a population of 11,336 people.
Annerley is located by road south of the Brisbane GPO.
Geography
Much of the suburb is elevated, lying on a ridge that ...
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Archerfield
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Burbank
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Calamvale
*
Coopers Plains
Coopers Plains is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coopers Plains had a population of 5,483 people.
Geography
Coopers Plains is south-west of the Brisbane CBD. The suburb is home to the Queen Eliz ...
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Darra
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Doolandella
Doolandella is an outer western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Doolandella had a population of 4,817 people.
Geography
Doolandella is south-west of the Brisbane central business district. Blunder Creek forms ...
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Drewvale
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Durack
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Dutton Park
Dutton Park is an inner southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Dutton Park had a population of 2,024 people.
Geography
Dutton Park is located about south of the Brisbane CBD. It is bounded to the north-east ...
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Eight Mile Plains
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Ellen Grove
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Fairfield
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Forest Lake
*
Greenslopes
Greenslopes is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Greenslopes had a population of 8,936 people.
It is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO and is mostly residential with some commercial and light industrial a ...
*
Heathwood
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Holland Park
Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that contains a street and public park of the same name. It has no official boundaries but is roughly bounded by Kensington High Street to the south, Holland Road to ...
*
Holland Park West
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Inala
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Karawatha
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Kuraby
Kuraby is an outer southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kuraby had a population of 8,108 people.
Geography
Kuraby is situated approximately by road south-east of the city of Brisbane.
Beenleigh Road is ...
*
Larapinta
*
MacGregor
MacGregor or Macgregor may refer to:
People
* MacGregor (surname)
* MacGregor (filmmaker), a Spanish commercial cinematographer and film director
* Clan Gregor, a Scottish clan
* Macgregor baronets, related individuals including a British Army ...
*
Mackenzie
*
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market to ...
*
Moorooka
*
Mount Gravatt
*
Mount Gravatt East
*
Nathan
*
Pallara
*
Parkinson
*
Richlands
*
Robertson
Robertson may refer to:
People
* Robertson (surname) (includes a list of people with this name)
* Robertson (given name)
* Clan Robertson, a Scottish clan
* Robertson, stage name of Belgian magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763–1837)
Place ...
*
Rochedale
*
Rocklea
Rocklea is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Rocklea had a population of 1,595 people.
Geography
Rocklea is located 9 kilometres south of the city. The west of the suburb is bordered by the Oxley Creek. The ...
*
Runcorn
Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region, with Liverpool to the northwest across the River Mersey. ...
*
Salisbury
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath.
Salisbury is in the southeast of ...
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Seventeen Mile Rocks
*
Sinnamon Park
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Stones Corner
Stones Corner is an inner southern suburb of City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Geography
Stones Corner is centred on the junction of Logan Road and Old Cleveland Road.
History
The area was originally known as Burnett's Swamp, being ...
*
Stretton
*
Sumner
*
Sunnybank
*
Sunnybank Hills
*
Tarragindi
Tarragindi is a southern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is represented through the Holland Park Ward, Holland Park and Moorooka Ward councillors on the Brisbane City Council. At the ...
*
Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...
*
Upper Mount Gravatt
Upper Mount Gravatt is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Upper Mount Gravatt had a population of 9,241 people.
Geography
Upper Mount Gravatt is south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an imp ...
*
Wacol
Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wacol had a population of 3,761 people.
Geography
Wacol is bounded to the west by the Brisbane River and to the north loosely by Wolston Creek. It is south-west of t ...
*
Willawong
*
Wishart
*
Yeerongpilly
Yeerongpilly is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeerongpilly had a population of 1,934 people.
Geography
Yeerongpilly is south-west of the Brisbane GPO.
A small section of the north eastern boun ...
*
Yeronga
Yeronga is a southern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeronga had a population of 6,535 people.
Geography
The suburb is bounded to the west and north by the Brisbane River and to the south-east by Ip ...
''Total: 54''
Eastern suburbs
*
Balmoral
*
Belmont
*
Bulimba
Bulimba is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bulimba had a population of 6,843 people.
Geography
Bulimba is located north-east of the CBD on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, but it is by road.
Topony ...
*
Camp Hill
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Cannon Hill
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Carina
*
Carina Heights
*
Carindale
Carindale is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO, and borders Belmont, Carina, Carina Heights, Mackenzie, Mansfield, Mount Gravatt East, and Tingalpa. In the , Ca ...
*
Chandler
*
Coorparoo
Coorparoo is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorparoo had a population of 16,282 people.
Geography
Coorparoo is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It borders Camp Hill, Holland Park, Stones Corner, ...
*
Gumdale
*
Hawthorne
*
Hemmant
*
Lota Lota may refer to:
Places
* Lota (crater), a crater on Mars
* Lota, Chile, a city and commune in Chile
* Lota, Punjab, village in Pakistan
*Lota, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia
**Lota railway station, a station on the Cleveland line
* ...
*
Lytton
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Manly
*
Manly West
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Morningside
*
Murarrie
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Norman Park
*
Port of Brisbane
Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and coastal suburb of the City of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. In the , Port of Brisbane had no residents living in the suburb. The port is the largest in the state of Queensland.
...
*
Ransome
*
Seven Hills
*
Tingalpa
Tingalpa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tingalpa had a population of 8,290 people.
Geography
The suburb has some older style homes built in the post war period – weatherboard and chamferboard post war ...
*
Wakerley
*
Wynnum
Wynnum is a coastal suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wynnum had a population of 12,915 people. The suburb is a popular destination in Brisbane due to its coastline, jetty and tidal wading pool.
Geography
Wynnum ...
*
Wynnum West
''Total: 27''
Western suburbs
*
Anstead
*
Ashgrove
*
Auchenflower
*
Banks Creek
*
Bellbowrie
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Brookfield
*
Chapel Hill Chapel Hill or Chapelhill may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Chapel Hill (Antarctica) Australia
*Chapel Hill, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
*Chapel Hill, South Australia, in the Mount Barker council area
Canada
*Chapel Hill, Ottawa, a neighbou ...
*
Chelmer
*
Chuwar
*
Corinda
Corinda is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Corinda had a population of 5,064 people.
History
The suburb takes its name from the Corinda railway station, which in turn was likely named after a local cattle sta ...
*
England Creek
*
Enoggera
*
Enoggera Reservoir
*
Ferny Grove
*
Fig Tree Pocket
Fig Tree Pocket is a riverside western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Fig Tree Pocket had a population of 4,045 people.
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is the oldest and largest koala sanctuary in the world. It is a ...
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Graceville
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Indooroopilly
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Jamboree Heights
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Jindalee
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Karana Downs
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Kenmore
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Kenmore Hills
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Kholo
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Lake Manchester
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Middle Park
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Milton
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Moggill
Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moggill had a population of 4,641 people.
Geography
Moggill is about by from the Brisbane GPO.
The Brisbane River bounds the suburb to the east, south and west wit ...
*
Mount Coot-tha
*
Mount Crosby
*
Mount Ommaney
Mount Ommaney is a south-western riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The mountain of the same name is located within the locality (). In the , Mount Ommaney had a population of 2,360 people.
Geography
Mount Omman ...
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Oxley
*
Pinjarra Hills
*
Pullenvale
Pullenvale is a western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pullenvale had a population of 3,179 people.
Geography
Mount Elphinstone is in the north of the locality () and rises to above sea level.
Pullenvale is ...
*
Riverhills
*
Sherwood
Sherwood may refer to:
Places Australia
*Sherwood, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
* Sherwood, South Australia, a locality
*Shire of Sherwood, a former local government area of Queensland
* Electoral district of Sherwood, an electoral district fr ...
*
Sinnamon Park
*
St Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindi ...
*
Taringa
Taringa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Taringa had a population of 8,376 people.
Geography
Taringa is by road south-west of the Brisbane GPO.
The suburb of Taringa borders Brisbane's Mt Coot-Tha, Indo ...
*
The Gap
*
Toowong
Toowong is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 10,830 people.
Geography
Toowong is situated between Mount Coot-tha and the Brisbane River and is made up of rolling hills ...
*
Upper Brookfield
*
Upper Kedron
*
Westlake
''Total: 43''
Moreton Bay
*
Bulwer
*
Cowan Cowan
*
Kooringal
*
Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of Queensland's most important coastal resources. The waters of Moreton Bay are a popular destination for recreational anglers and are ...
*
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the east coast of the island. Moreton Island lies northeast of the Queensland capital, Brisban ...
''Total: 5''
History
The
Government of Queensland
The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy was form ...
created the City of Brisbane with a view to uniting the then Brisbane metropolitan area under a single planning and governance structure. The ''City of Brisbane Act 1924'' received assent from the Governor on 30 October 1924. On 1 October 1925, 20 local government areas of various sizes were abolished and merged into the new city, namely:
*Cities:
**
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
**
South Brisbane
*Towns:
**
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
* Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname
** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilto ...
**
Ithaca
Ithaca most commonly refers to:
*Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey''
*Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca
*Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College
Ithaca, Ithaka ...
**
Sandgate
**
Toowong
Toowong is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 10,830 people.
Geography
Toowong is situated between Mount Coot-tha and the Brisbane River and is made up of rolling hills ...
**
Windsor
**
Wynnum
Wynnum is a coastal suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wynnum had a population of 12,915 people. The suburb is a popular destination in Brisbane due to its coastline, jetty and tidal wading pool.
Geography
Wynnum ...
*Shires:
**
Balmoral
**
Belmont
**
Coorparoo
Coorparoo is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coorparoo had a population of 16,282 people.
Geography
Coorparoo is by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It borders Camp Hill, Holland Park, Stones Corner, ...
**
Enoggera
**
Kedron
**
Moggill
Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moggill had a population of 4,641 people.
Geography
Moggill is about by from the Brisbane GPO.
The Brisbane River bounds the suburb to the east, south and west wit ...
**
Sherwood
Sherwood may refer to:
Places Australia
*Sherwood, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane
* Sherwood, South Australia, a locality
*Shire of Sherwood, a former local government area of Queensland
* Electoral district of Sherwood, an electoral district fr ...
**
Stephens
Stephens is a surname. It is a patronymic and is recorded in England from 1086.
Notable people with the surname include:
*Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883), Vice President of the Confederate States of America
*Alison Stephens (1970–2010), Brit ...
**
Taringa
Taringa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Taringa had a population of 8,376 people.
Geography
Taringa is by road south-west of the Brisbane GPO.
The suburb of Taringa borders Brisbane's Mt Coot-Tha, Indo ...
**
Tingalpa
Tingalpa is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Tingalpa had a population of 8,290 people.
Geography
The suburb has some older style homes built in the post war period – weatherboard and chamferboard post war ...
**
Toombul
**
Yeerongpilly
Yeerongpilly is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeerongpilly had a population of 1,934 people.
Geography
Yeerongpilly is south-west of the Brisbane GPO.
A small section of the north eastern boun ...
The council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the
Brisbane Tramways Trust.
Demographics
Heritage
The Brisbane City Council maintains the
Brisbane Local Heritage Register
The Brisbane Heritage Register is a heritage register containing a list of culturally-significant places within the City of Brisbane
The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of the metropolitan a ...
, a list of nominated sites that satisfy the council's heritage criteria.
Governance
The City of Brisbane is governed by the Brisbane City Council, the largest local council in Australia. The Brisbane City Council has its power divided between a
Lord Mayor, a parliamentary-style council of twenty-six councillors representing single-member wards of approximately 30,000 voters (roughly equivalent in size to state electorates), and a Civic Cabinet comprising the Lord Mayor, the Deputy Mayor (drawn from the majority on Council) and the chairpersons of the seven standing committees drawn from the membership of Council. Due to the City of Brisbane's status as the country's largest LGA, the Lord Mayor is elected by the largest single-member electorate in Australia. Like all mayors in Queensland, the Lord Mayor is vested with very broad executive power.
The Brisbane City Council operates under the ''City of Brisbane Act 2010'', while other local governments in Queensland are governed by the ''Local Government Act 2009''. Council meetings are held at Level 2, City Hall, 64 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City every Tuesday at 2pm except during recess and holiday periods. This temporary venue is in use due to the restoration work being performed on the traditional venue
Brisbane City Hall
Brisbane City Hall, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the seat of the Brisbane City Council. It is located adjacent to King George Square, where the rectangular City Hall has its main entrance. The City Hall also has frontages and entrance ...
. Council Meetings generally open to the public, excluding the Civic Cabinet.
Heraldry
The
motto
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of the City of Brisbane is ''Meliora sequimur'',
Latin
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for ''We aim for better things''. The council's corporate slogan is ''Dedicated to a better Brisbane''. The city's colours are blue and gold. Its corporate logo was introduced in 1982 in preparation for the
Commonwealth Games
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hosted in Brisbane that year. It features a stylised version of Brisbane's City Hall which opened in 1930. The city's floral emblem is the (
exotic
Exotic may refer to:
Mathematics and physics
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*Exotic sphere, a differentiable ''n''-manifold, homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the ordinar ...
)
poinsettia
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and its faunal emblem is the
graceful tree frog.
Amenities
Brisbane City Council operate libraries in
Annerley
Annerley is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Annerley had a population of 11,336 people.
Annerley is located by road south of the Brisbane GPO.
Geography
Much of the suburb is elevated, lying on a ridge that ...
,
Ashgrove,
Banyo,
Bracken Ridge
Bracken Ridge is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bracken Ridge had a population of 16,936 people. Geography
The suburb is located about north of the Brisbane central business district. The southern ...
,
Brisbane CBD (
Brisbane Square),
Bulimba
Bulimba is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bulimba had a population of 6,843 people.
Geography
Bulimba is located north-east of the CBD on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, but it is by road.
Topony ...
,
Carina,
Carindale
Carindale is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO, and borders Belmont, Carina, Carina Heights, Mackenzie, Mansfield, Mount Gravatt East, and Tingalpa. In the , Ca ...
(
Westfield Carindale
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),
Chermside,
Coopers Plains
Coopers Plains is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Coopers Plains had a population of 5,483 people.
Geography
Coopers Plains is south-west of the Brisbane CBD. The suburb is home to the Queen Eliz ...
,
Corinda
Corinda is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Corinda had a population of 5,064 people.
History
The suburb takes its name from the Corinda railway station, which in turn was likely named after a local cattle sta ...
,
Everton Park,
Fairfield,
Upper Mount Gravatt
Upper Mount Gravatt is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Upper Mount Gravatt had a population of 9,241 people.
Geography
Upper Mount Gravatt is south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an imp ...
(
Garden City),
Grange
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Buildings
* Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906
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* Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery
Geography Australia
* Grange, South Austr ...
,
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland
** Lord Hamilto ...
,
Holland Park
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,
Inala,
Indooroopilly,
Kenmore,
Mitchelton,
Mount Coot-tha (
Botanic Gardens),
Mount Gravatt,
Mount Ommaney
Mount Ommaney is a south-western riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The mountain of the same name is located within the locality (). In the , Mount Ommaney had a population of 2,360 people.
Geography
Mount Omman ...
,
New Farm
New Farm is an inner northern riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , New Farm had a population of 12,542 people.
Geography
The suburb is located 2 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD on a large bend of the Br ...
,
Nundah
Nundah (previously called German Station) is an inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It contains the neighbourhood of Toombul. In the , Nundah had a population of 12,141 people.
Prior to European settlement, Nundah was i ...
,
Sandgate,
Stones Corner
Stones Corner is an inner southern suburb of City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Geography
Stones Corner is centred on the junction of Logan Road and Old Cleveland Road.
History
The area was originally known as Burnett's Swamp, being ...
,
Sunnybank Hills,
Toowong
Toowong is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 10,830 people.
Geography
Toowong is situated between Mount Coot-tha and the Brisbane River and is made up of rolling hills ...
,
West End,
Wynnum
Wynnum is a coastal suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wynnum had a population of 12,915 people. The suburb is a popular destination in Brisbane due to its coastline, jetty and tidal wading pool.
Geography
Wynnum ...
, and
Zillmere
Zillmere is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Zillmere had a population of 8,967 people.
Geography
As at 2008, Zillmere was approximately 60% residential and 40% industrial.
History
The Turrbal people occupie ...
. In addition, it operates a mobile library service to
Aspley,
Bellbowrie,
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
,
Ellen Grove,
Forest Lake,
Manly West,
Mount Crosby and
The Gap. There is also a
pop-up library that attends community events and festivals, as well as visiting various parks around Brisbane for children's storytime sessions (a list of dates and places is published some months in advance).
Sister cities
The City of Brisbane's
sister cities are:
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Abu Dhabi
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, United Arab Emirates (2009)
*
Auckland
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, New Zealand (1988)
*
Chongqing
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, China (2005)
*
Daejeon
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, South Korea (2002)
*
Hyderabad
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, India (2010)
*
Kaohsiung
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, Taiwan (1997)
*
Kobe
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, Japan (1985)
*
Semarang
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, Indonesia (1993)
*
Shenzhen
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, China (1992)
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative ...
, France was formerly a sister city of Brisbane until the relationship was severed in 1995 as protest against the
Chirac
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government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.
Bangkok
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became a sister city of Brisbane in 1997, but the partnership ended in 2017 at the latest.
See also
*
Lord Mayor of Brisbane
*
List of mayors and lord mayors of Brisbane
*
Local government in Australia
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References
External links
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Brisbane City Council's Organisational Structure*
Google map of pre 1925 merger Brisbane Councils
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Local government areas in Brisbane
Local government areas of Queensland
1925 establishments in Australia