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The City of Brisbane is the Local Government Area

Local Government Area

A local government area 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, province, division, or territory....

(LGA) that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. A metropolitan area usually encompasses multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships,...

of Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Unlike LGAs in Sydney

City of Sydney

The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...

, Melbourne

City of Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central city area of Melbourne. The city has an area of 36 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 93,105 people. The city's motto is "Vires acquirit eundo" which means "She gathers strength as she...

, Perth

City of Perth

The City of Perth is a local government area and body, within the Perth Metropolitan Area, which is the capital of Western Australia. The local government body is commonly known as Perth City Council. The city covers the Perth central business district and surrounding suburbs...

and Adelaide

City of Adelaide

The City of Adelaide is a local government area in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia. It covers the original Adelaide city centre settlement, , North Adelaide, and the Adelaide Park Lands which surround North Adelaide and the city centre.Established in 1840, the organisation now...

, where LGAs are generally responsible only for the relatively small Central Business Districts of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

and 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 the one million. The population of the LGA is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

and the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

combined. The Council administers a budget of over A$3 billion.

The Local Government Area is the combination of the local cities, towns and shires that merged together in 1925. The main offices and Central Library for the Council are at 266 George Street

George Street, Brisbane

George Street is a main street located in the Brisbane CBD in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A major thoroughfare, George Street connects to the Queensland University of Technology as well as the state Botanical Gardens, to the commercial centre of Brisbane, Queen Street and Queen Street Mall.The...

, also known as Brisbane Square

Brisbane Square

Brisbane Square is a high-rise building in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The building has 38 floors and rises to 151 metres. The building's main use is for office space, the lower floors leased to retailers, with a 350-space car park below the building...

. The Brisbane City Hall houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane.

History

The Queensland state government created the City of Brisbane with a view to uniting the then Brisbane metropolitan area under one 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 Municipal Council
  -History:On 7 September 1859, Brisbane was proclaimed a municipality. Thus after the passing of the Municipal Institutions Act 1864 the area could establish a municipal council to administer the district - with powers relating to by-laws, to rating, to borrowings, to the control or regulation of...
- South Brisbane
  South Brisbane, Queensland
  South Brisbane is an inner city suburb of Brisbane, Australia located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, directly connected to the central business district by the Kurilpa, Victoria and Goodwill bridges....

Towns:
- Hamilton
  Hamilton, Queensland
  Hamilton is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, lying on the north bank of the Brisbane River along Bulimba Reach. The area is hilly with views of the Brisbane central business district....
- Ithaca
  Town of Ithaca
  Ithaca was a local government area of Queensland, located in western Brisbane. The Division of Ithaca was first proclaimed in 1879, and originally covered an area that stretched from Windsor, Kelvin Grove and Milton in the east, through to The Gap and beyond the Enoggera Dam in the west...
- Sandgate
  Sandgate, Queensland
  Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia, located 16 km north of the Brisbane CBD. The town became a popular escape for the people of Brisbane in the early 20th century.-Geography:Sandgate is situated on the coastline, along Bramble Bay...
- Toowong
  Toowong, Queensland
  Toowong is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 5 km west of the Brisbane CBD. At the centre of Toowong is a commercial precinct including Toowong Village and several office buildings...
- Windsor
  Windsor, Queensland
  Windsor is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, located about 3.5 km from the CBD. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads.-History:Land was first...
- Wynnum
  Wynnum, Queensland
  Wynnum is a suburb located on the shores of Moreton Bay in Brisbane, Australia, about 16 kilometres east of the CBD. The area was sparsely settled until the arrival of the railway in the late 1880s, but then grew fairly rapidly. The former Wynnum Shire Council was created in 1902, and twelve years...

Shires:
- Balmoral
  Balmoral, Queensland
  Balmoral is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, located 9 kilometres east of the CBD.Balmoral is an anglicisation of Baile Mhoireil which is Scottish Gaelic for ‘beautiful residence’ or ‘majestic castle’....
- Belmont
  Belmont, Queensland
  Belmont is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 12 km south-east of the CBD.Belmont is named after the original estate in 1876, the estate grew and became the Belmont Shire in 1901...
- Coorparoo
  Coorparoo, Queensland
  Coorparoo is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located approximately four kilometres from the city. Surrounding suburbs include Camp Hill, Holland Park, Greenslopes, East Brisbane, Norman Park and Seven Hills.-Aboriginal history:...
- Enoggera
  Enoggera, Queensland
  Enoggera is a suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 6 km north-west of the Brisbane CBD.-History:In 1845 John Brennan purchased six hectares of land in Enoggera. Six years later, Thomas Hayes moved to the area and bought thirty-three acres of land...
- Kedron
  Kedron, Queensland
  Kedron is a northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. It is close to Westfield Chermside shopping centre in the neighbouring suburb of Chermside...
- Moggill
  Moggill, Queensland
  Moggill is one of Brisbane's western suburbs, about from the CBD. It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms...
- Sherwood
  Sherwood, Queensland
  Sherwood is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 9 km south west of the CBD and borders the Brisbane River. The suburb is mostly low and medium density housing with a retail strip centered along Sherwood Road.-Open Space:...
- Stephens
  Shire of Stephens
  The Shire of Stephens was a Local Government Area in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Annerley, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1886 until 1925, when it was amalgamated into the City of Brisbane under the City of...
- Taringa
  Taringa, Queensland
  Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road...
- Tingalpa
  Shire of Tingalpa
  The Shire of Tingalpa was a Local Government Area in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Mount Cotton, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1949.-History:...
- Toombul
- Yeerongpilly
  Shire of Yeerongpilly
  The Shire of Yeerongpilly was a Local Government Area in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Rocklea, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1925, when it was split up following the creation of the City of Brisbane under...

The Council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the Brisbane Tramways Trust.

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 powerful executive Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor

The Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...

, a parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

ary-style council of twenty-six councillors representing single-member wards of approximately 23,000 voters, and a Civic Cabinet comprising the Lord Mayor and the chairpersons of the seven standing committees drawn from the membership of Council. The Lord Mayor is the person elected by the largest single electorate in Australia. The seven standing committees of Council are:

Community Services Committee
Environment and Sustainability Committee
Finance Committee
Public Transport Committee
Roads, TransApex
TransApex
TransApex is a transport plan devised by the former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman to connect existing motorways and major arterial roads with new transport links and divert cross-city traffic out of the Brisbane CBD. The plan is currently being delivered by Brisbane City Council at an...

and Traffic Committee
Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee
Water and City Businesses Committee

The council also owns three business units which are city-owned enterprises managed on commercial lines:

Brisbane CityWorks
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The origins of Brisbane Transport can be seen as far back as 1885 when horse...
Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water (utility)
Brisbane Water was a business of the Brisbane City Council in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. Brisbane Water was responsible for the water supply system and wastewater removal and treatment throughout the metropolitan area....

Following Local Government elections on 15 March 2008, 10 councillors are members of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

while 16 councillors and the Lord Mayor are from the Liberal National Party. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

, who replaced civil engineer

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

Campbell Newman

Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....

in April 2011, when he resigned to enter Queensland State Politics. Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

belongs to the Liberal National Party. The current Deputy Mayor is Adrian Schrinner. The day-to-day management of Council's operations is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

who is currently Colin Jensen.

Election

Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

s are held every four years with ballots for the Lord Mayoralty and the individual councillors being held simultaneously. Voting is compulsory

Compulsory voting

Compulsory voting is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as fines, community service, or perhaps imprisonment if fines are unpaid...

for all eligible electors. The election in March 2004 resulted in the unusual situation of a Liberal Lord Mayor co-existing with a Labor majority on Council, resulting in remarkably few conflicts over civic budgets and Council policy. The most recent election in March 2008 saw a swing of 5.5% to the Liberal National Party on the councillor votes, resulting in a Liberal majority on Council with a Liberal Lord Mayor (Lord Mayor Campbell Newman won re-election with 60% of the primary vote).

The Brisbane City Council is incorporated under the City of Brisbane Act 1924, while other local governments in Queensland are governed by the Local Government Act 1993.

Council meetings are held at Level 5, 157 Ann St, 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

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 entrances in both Ann Street and Adelaide Street...

. Meetings are generally open to the public.

Brisbane City Council aims to be carbon neutral by 2026 via the reduction of emissions and carbon offsetting.

Heraldry

The motto

Motto

A motto is a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. A motto may be in any language, but Latin is the most used. The local language is usual in the mottoes of governments...

of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

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

Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

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

Introduced species

An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...

) poinsettia

Poinsettia

Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly known as Zack Wood or noche buena, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The name "poinsettia" is after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the US in 1825...

and its faunal emblem is the Graceful Tree Frog

Dainty Green Tree Frog

The Dainty Green Tree Frog or Graceful Treefrog is a tree frog native to eastern Queensland, and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It ranges from northern Cape York in Queensland to Gosford in New South Wales, with a small and most likely introduced population in Hornsby Heights in Sydney...

.

See also:Flag of Brisbane

Flag of Brisbane

The flag of Brisbane is based upon the chief nebuly arms of the Australian City of Brisbane. The two primary colours used are blue and gold, with blue representing the sea and the Brisbane River which flows through the city, and gold representing the sun and the city's warm climate.-Symbols on the...

Wards

As of 20 June 2011, the twenty-six wards, their councillors and their party affiliations are:

	Party	Councillor
Bracken Ridge	LNP	Amanda Cooper
Central	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	David Hinchliffe
Chandler	LNP	Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner is a Councillor in the Brisbane City Council and has been in office since September 2005 for the Chandler Ward. He is a member of the Liberal National Party. He was endorsed as the Deputy Mayor of Brisbane in April 2011...
Deagon	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Victoria Newton
Doboy	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	John Campbell
Enoggera	LNP	Andrew Wines
Hamilton	LNP	David McLachlan
Holland Park	LNP	Ian McKenzie
Jamboree	LNP	Matthew Bourke
Karawatha	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Gail MacPherson
MacGregor	LNP	Steven Huang
Marchant	LNP	Fiona King
McDowall	LNP	Norm Wyndham
Moorooka	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Steve Griffiths
Morningside	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Shayne Sutton
Northgate	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Kim Flesser
Parkinson	LNP	Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor is a councillor of the Brisbane City Council, the local government authority for the city of Brisbane. A member of the Liberal National Party, Owen-Taylor is Deputy Chairperson of the Finance and Administration Committee and Councillor assisting the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor on...
Pullenvale	LNP	Margaret de Wit
Richlands	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Milton Dick
Tennyson	LNP/Independent	Nicole Johnston
The Gabba	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Helen Abrahams
The Gap	LNP	Geraldine Knapp
Toowong	LNP	Peter Matic
Walter Taylor	LNP	Julian Simmonds
Wishart	LNP	Krista Adams
Wynnum Manly	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Peter Cumming

Sister cities

The City of Brisbane has seven sister cities. They are: Kobe
Kobe
, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

, Japan (July 1985) Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand (August 1988) Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...

, People's Republic of China (June 1992) Semarang
Semarang
- Economy :The western part of the city is home to many industrial parks and factories. The port of Semarang is located on the north coast and it is the main shipping port for the province of Central Java. Many small manufacturers are located in Semarang, producing goods such as textiles,...

, Indonesia (January 1993) Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

, Taiwan (September 1997) Daejeon
Daejeon
Daejeon is South Korea's fifth largest metropolis and the provincial capital of Chungnam. Located in the center of the country, Daejeon had a population of over 1.5 million in 2010. It is at the crossroads of Gyeongbu railway, Honam railway, Gyeongbu Expressway, and Honam Expressway. Within the...

, South Korea (June 2002) Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...

, People's Republic of China (October 2005) Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

, United Arab Emirates (February 2009)
The City of Brisbane is the Local Government Area

Local Government Area

(LGA) that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

of Brisbane

Brisbane

, Queensland

Queensland

, Australia

Australia

. Unlike LGAs in Sydney

City of Sydney

The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...

, Melbourne

City of Melbourne

, Perth

City of Perth

and Adelaide

City of Adelaide

Metropolitan area

Tasmania

, the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

and the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

George Street, Brisbane

, also known as Brisbane Square

Brisbane Square

. The Brisbane City Hall houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane.

History

Cities:
- Brisbane
  Brisbane Municipal Council
  -History:On 7 September 1859, Brisbane was proclaimed a municipality. Thus after the passing of the Municipal Institutions Act 1864 the area could establish a municipal council to administer the district - with powers relating to by-laws, to rating, to borrowings, to the control or regulation of...
- South Brisbane
  South Brisbane, Queensland
  South Brisbane is an inner city suburb of Brisbane, Australia located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, directly connected to the central business district by the Kurilpa, Victoria and Goodwill bridges....

Towns:
- Hamilton
  Hamilton, Queensland
  Hamilton is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, lying on the north bank of the Brisbane River along Bulimba Reach. The area is hilly with views of the Brisbane central business district....
- Ithaca
  Town of Ithaca
  Ithaca was a local government area of Queensland, located in western Brisbane. The Division of Ithaca was first proclaimed in 1879, and originally covered an area that stretched from Windsor, Kelvin Grove and Milton in the east, through to The Gap and beyond the Enoggera Dam in the west...
- Sandgate
  Sandgate, Queensland
  Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia, located 16 km north of the Brisbane CBD. The town became a popular escape for the people of Brisbane in the early 20th century.-Geography:Sandgate is situated on the coastline, along Bramble Bay...
- Toowong
  Toowong, Queensland
  Toowong is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 5 km west of the Brisbane CBD. At the centre of Toowong is a commercial precinct including Toowong Village and several office buildings...
- Windsor
  Windsor, Queensland
  Windsor is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, located about 3.5 km from the CBD. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads.-History:Land was first...
- Wynnum
  Wynnum, Queensland
  Wynnum is a suburb located on the shores of Moreton Bay in Brisbane, Australia, about 16 kilometres east of the CBD. The area was sparsely settled until the arrival of the railway in the late 1880s, but then grew fairly rapidly. The former Wynnum Shire Council was created in 1902, and twelve years...

Shires:
- Balmoral
  Balmoral, Queensland
  Balmoral is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, located 9 kilometres east of the CBD.Balmoral is an anglicisation of Baile Mhoireil which is Scottish Gaelic for ‘beautiful residence’ or ‘majestic castle’....
- Belmont
  Belmont, Queensland
  Belmont is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 12 km south-east of the CBD.Belmont is named after the original estate in 1876, the estate grew and became the Belmont Shire in 1901...
- Coorparoo
  Coorparoo, Queensland
  Coorparoo is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located approximately four kilometres from the city. Surrounding suburbs include Camp Hill, Holland Park, Greenslopes, East Brisbane, Norman Park and Seven Hills.-Aboriginal history:...
- Enoggera
  Enoggera, Queensland
  Enoggera is a suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 6 km north-west of the Brisbane CBD.-History:In 1845 John Brennan purchased six hectares of land in Enoggera. Six years later, Thomas Hayes moved to the area and bought thirty-three acres of land...
- Kedron
  Kedron, Queensland
  Kedron is a northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. It is close to Westfield Chermside shopping centre in the neighbouring suburb of Chermside...
- Moggill
  Moggill, Queensland
  Moggill is one of Brisbane's western suburbs, about from the CBD. It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms...
- Sherwood
  Sherwood, Queensland
  Sherwood is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 9 km south west of the CBD and borders the Brisbane River. The suburb is mostly low and medium density housing with a retail strip centered along Sherwood Road.-Open Space:...
- Stephens
  Shire of Stephens
  The Shire of Stephens was a Local Government Area in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Annerley, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1886 until 1925, when it was amalgamated into the City of Brisbane under the City of...
- Taringa
  Taringa, Queensland
  Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road...
- Tingalpa
  Shire of Tingalpa
  The Shire of Tingalpa was a Local Government Area in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Mount Cotton, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1949.-History:...
- Toombul
- Yeerongpilly
  Shire of Yeerongpilly
  The Shire of Yeerongpilly was a Local Government Area in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Rocklea, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1925, when it was split up following the creation of the City of Brisbane under...

The Council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the Brisbane Tramways Trust.

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 powerful executive Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor

, a parliament

Parliament

Community Services Committee
Environment and Sustainability Committee
Finance Committee
Public Transport Committee
Roads, TransApex
TransApex
TransApex is a transport plan devised by the former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman to connect existing motorways and major arterial roads with new transport links and divert cross-city traffic out of the Brisbane CBD. The plan is currently being delivered by Brisbane City Council at an...

and Traffic Committee
Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee
Water and City Businesses Committee

The council also owns three business units which are city-owned enterprises managed on commercial lines:

Brisbane CityWorks
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The origins of Brisbane Transport can be seen as far back as 1885 when horse...
Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water (utility)
Brisbane Water was a business of the Brisbane City Council in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. Brisbane Water was responsible for the water supply system and wastewater removal and treatment throughout the metropolitan area....

Following Local Government elections on 15 March 2008, 10 councillors are members of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

while 16 councillors and the Lord Mayor are from the Liberal National Party. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

, who replaced civil engineer

Civil engineering

Campbell Newman

Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....

in April 2011, when he resigned to enter Queensland State Politics. Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

belongs to the Liberal National Party. The current Deputy Mayor is Adrian Schrinner. The day-to-day management of Council's operations is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

who is currently Colin Jensen.

Election

Election

s are held every four years with ballots for the Lord Mayoralty and the individual councillors being held simultaneously. Voting is compulsory

Compulsory voting

Brisbane City Hall

. Meetings are generally open to the public.

Brisbane City Council aims to be carbon neutral by 2026 via the reduction of emissions and carbon offsetting.

Heraldry

The motto

Motto

of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin

Latin

Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

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

Introduced species

) poinsettia

Poinsettia

and its faunal emblem is the Graceful Tree Frog

Dainty Green Tree Frog

.

See also:Flag of Brisbane

Flag of Brisbane

Wards

As of 20 June 2011, the twenty-six wards, their councillors and their party affiliations are:

	Party	Councillor
Bracken Ridge	LNP	Amanda Cooper
Central	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	David Hinchliffe
Chandler	LNP	Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner is a Councillor in the Brisbane City Council and has been in office since September 2005 for the Chandler Ward. He is a member of the Liberal National Party. He was endorsed as the Deputy Mayor of Brisbane in April 2011...
Deagon	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Victoria Newton
Doboy	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	John Campbell
Enoggera	LNP	Andrew Wines
Hamilton	LNP	David McLachlan
Holland Park	LNP	Ian McKenzie
Jamboree	LNP	Matthew Bourke
Karawatha	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Gail MacPherson
MacGregor	LNP	Steven Huang
Marchant	LNP	Fiona King
McDowall	LNP	Norm Wyndham
Moorooka	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Steve Griffiths
Morningside	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Shayne Sutton
Northgate	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Kim Flesser
Parkinson	LNP	Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor is a councillor of the Brisbane City Council, the local government authority for the city of Brisbane. A member of the Liberal National Party, Owen-Taylor is Deputy Chairperson of the Finance and Administration Committee and Councillor assisting the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor on...
Pullenvale	LNP	Margaret de Wit
Richlands	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Milton Dick
Tennyson	LNP/Independent	Nicole Johnston
The Gabba	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Helen Abrahams
The Gap	LNP	Geraldine Knapp
Toowong	LNP	Peter Matic
Walter Taylor	LNP	Julian Simmonds
Wishart	LNP	Krista Adams
Wynnum Manly	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Peter Cumming

Sister cities

Local Government Area

(LGA) that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

of Brisbane

Brisbane

, Queensland

Queensland

, Australia

Australia

. Unlike LGAs in Sydney

City of Sydney

The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...

, Melbourne

City of Melbourne

, Perth

City of Perth

and Adelaide

City of Adelaide

Metropolitan area

Tasmania

, the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

and the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...

George Street, Brisbane

, also known as Brisbane Square

Brisbane Square

. The Brisbane City Hall houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane.

History

Cities:
- Brisbane
  Brisbane Municipal Council
  -History:On 7 September 1859, Brisbane was proclaimed a municipality. Thus after the passing of the Municipal Institutions Act 1864 the area could establish a municipal council to administer the district - with powers relating to by-laws, to rating, to borrowings, to the control or regulation of...
- South Brisbane
  South Brisbane, Queensland
  South Brisbane is an inner city suburb of Brisbane, Australia located on the southern bank of the Brisbane River, directly connected to the central business district by the Kurilpa, Victoria and Goodwill bridges....

Towns:
- Hamilton
  Hamilton, Queensland
  Hamilton is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, lying on the north bank of the Brisbane River along Bulimba Reach. The area is hilly with views of the Brisbane central business district....
- Ithaca
  Town of Ithaca
  Ithaca was a local government area of Queensland, located in western Brisbane. The Division of Ithaca was first proclaimed in 1879, and originally covered an area that stretched from Windsor, Kelvin Grove and Milton in the east, through to The Gap and beyond the Enoggera Dam in the west...
- Sandgate
  Sandgate, Queensland
  Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia, located 16 km north of the Brisbane CBD. The town became a popular escape for the people of Brisbane in the early 20th century.-Geography:Sandgate is situated on the coastline, along Bramble Bay...
- Toowong
  Toowong, Queensland
  Toowong is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 5 km west of the Brisbane CBD. At the centre of Toowong is a commercial precinct including Toowong Village and several office buildings...
- Windsor
  Windsor, Queensland
  Windsor is an inner northern suburb of Brisbane, located about 3.5 km from the CBD. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslanders, although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads.-History:Land was first...
- Wynnum
  Wynnum, Queensland
  Wynnum is a suburb located on the shores of Moreton Bay in Brisbane, Australia, about 16 kilometres east of the CBD. The area was sparsely settled until the arrival of the railway in the late 1880s, but then grew fairly rapidly. The former Wynnum Shire Council was created in 1902, and twelve years...

Shires:
- Balmoral
  Balmoral, Queensland
  Balmoral is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia, located 9 kilometres east of the CBD.Balmoral is an anglicisation of Baile Mhoireil which is Scottish Gaelic for ‘beautiful residence’ or ‘majestic castle’....
- Belmont
  Belmont, Queensland
  Belmont is an outer suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 12 km south-east of the CBD.Belmont is named after the original estate in 1876, the estate grew and became the Belmont Shire in 1901...
- Coorparoo
  Coorparoo, Queensland
  Coorparoo is a southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located approximately four kilometres from the city. Surrounding suburbs include Camp Hill, Holland Park, Greenslopes, East Brisbane, Norman Park and Seven Hills.-Aboriginal history:...
- Enoggera
  Enoggera, Queensland
  Enoggera is a suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 6 km north-west of the Brisbane CBD.-History:In 1845 John Brennan purchased six hectares of land in Enoggera. Six years later, Thomas Hayes moved to the area and bought thirty-three acres of land...
- Kedron
  Kedron, Queensland
  Kedron is a northern suburb of Brisbane, Australia, centred on Gympie Road and Kedron Brook. It is close to Westfield Chermside shopping centre in the neighbouring suburb of Chermside...
- Moggill
  Moggill, Queensland
  Moggill is one of Brisbane's western suburbs, about from the CBD. It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms...
- Sherwood
  Sherwood, Queensland
  Sherwood is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 9 km south west of the CBD and borders the Brisbane River. The suburb is mostly low and medium density housing with a retail strip centered along Sherwood Road.-Open Space:...
- Stephens
  Shire of Stephens
  The Shire of Stephens was a Local Government Area in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Annerley, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1886 until 1925, when it was amalgamated into the City of Brisbane under the City of...
- Taringa
  Taringa, Queensland
  Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 5 km south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road...
- Tingalpa
  Shire of Tingalpa
  The Shire of Tingalpa was a Local Government Area in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Mount Cotton, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1949.-History:...
- Toombul
- Yeerongpilly
  Shire of Yeerongpilly
  The Shire of Yeerongpilly was a Local Government Area in the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. The shire, administered from Rocklea, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1925, when it was split up following the creation of the City of Brisbane under...

The Council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the Brisbane Tramways Trust.

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 powerful executive Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor

, a parliament

Parliament

Community Services Committee
Environment and Sustainability Committee
Finance Committee
Public Transport Committee
Roads, TransApex
TransApex
TransApex is a transport plan devised by the former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman to connect existing motorways and major arterial roads with new transport links and divert cross-city traffic out of the Brisbane CBD. The plan is currently being delivered by Brisbane City Council at an...

and Traffic Committee
Urban Planning and Economic Development Committee
Water and City Businesses Committee

The council also owns three business units which are city-owned enterprises managed on commercial lines:

Brisbane CityWorks
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport
Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The origins of Brisbane Transport can be seen as far back as 1885 when horse...
Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water (utility)
Brisbane Water was a business of the Brisbane City Council in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. Brisbane Water was responsible for the water supply system and wastewater removal and treatment throughout the metropolitan area....

Following Local Government elections on 15 March 2008, 10 councillors are members of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

while 16 councillors and the Lord Mayor are from the Liberal National Party. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

, who replaced civil engineer

Civil engineering

Campbell Newman

Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....

in April 2011, when he resigned to enter Queensland State Politics. Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk

Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and was the councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and is currently the Lord Mayor of the City of Brisbane, succeding former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....

belongs to the Liberal National Party. The current Deputy Mayor is Adrian Schrinner. The day-to-day management of Council's operations is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

who is currently Colin Jensen.

Election

Election

s are held every four years with ballots for the Lord Mayoralty and the individual councillors being held simultaneously. Voting is compulsory

Compulsory voting

Brisbane City Hall

. Meetings are generally open to the public.

Brisbane City Council aims to be carbon neutral by 2026 via the reduction of emissions and carbon offsetting.

Heraldry

The motto

Motto

of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin

Latin

Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

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

Introduced species

) poinsettia

Poinsettia

and its faunal emblem is the Graceful Tree Frog

Dainty Green Tree Frog

.

See also:Flag of Brisbane

Flag of Brisbane

Wards

As of 20 June 2011, the twenty-six wards, their councillors and their party affiliations are:

	Party	Councillor
Bracken Ridge	LNP	Amanda Cooper
Central	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	David Hinchliffe
Chandler	LNP	Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner Adrian Schrinner is a Councillor in the Brisbane City Council and has been in office since September 2005 for the Chandler Ward. He is a member of the Liberal National Party. He was endorsed as the Deputy Mayor of Brisbane in April 2011...
Deagon	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Victoria Newton
Doboy	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	John Campbell
Enoggera	LNP	Andrew Wines
Hamilton	LNP	David McLachlan
Holland Park	LNP	Ian McKenzie
Jamboree	LNP	Matthew Bourke
Karawatha	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Gail MacPherson
MacGregor	LNP	Steven Huang
Marchant	LNP	Fiona King
McDowall	LNP	Norm Wyndham
Moorooka	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Steve Griffiths
Morningside	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Shayne Sutton
Northgate	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Kim Flesser
Parkinson	LNP	Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor Angela Owen-Taylor is a councillor of the Brisbane City Council, the local government authority for the city of Brisbane. A member of the Liberal National Party, Owen-Taylor is Deputy Chairperson of the Finance and Administration Committee and Councillor assisting the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor on...
Pullenvale	LNP	Margaret de Wit
Richlands	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Milton Dick
Tennyson	LNP/Independent	Nicole Johnston
The Gabba	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Helen Abrahams
The Gap	LNP	Geraldine Knapp
Toowong	LNP	Peter Matic
Walter Taylor	LNP	Julian Simmonds
Wishart	LNP	Krista Adams
Wynnum Manly	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	Peter Cumming

Sister cities

Direct-controlled municipality of the People's Republic of China

In 1995, Brisbane City Council officially severed all ties with its sister city, Nice

Nice

Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...

, France, in protest against the Chirac

Chirac

Chirac may refer to:* Jacques Chirac, the President of the French Republic.* Bernadette Chirac, the wife of President Jacques Chirac** Their two daughters, Claude Chirac and Laurence...

government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean. Brisbane does not have any sister city relationship with any North American, South American, African or European city.

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