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Brisbane City Council

Brisbane City Council is the governing council

City council

A city council is a form of local government, usually covering a city or other urban area, such as a town. The system of government has roots back at least to the Roman Empire....
for Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, which is the capital of Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. Unlike councils in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where the local councils are generally responsible for relatively small areas of those cities, Brisbane City Council administers the larger part of the Brisbane metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence, or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central city and their zone of influence....
and has a larger population than any other Local Government Area in Australia.

The Council is the combination of the local cities, towns and shires that merged together in 1924 (see history section).

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Brisbane City Council is the governing council

City council

A city council is a form of local government, usually covering a city or other urban area, such as a town. The system of government has roots back at least to the Roman Empire....
for Brisbane

Brisbane

Queensland

Australia

Metropolitan area

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, the Council Chamber, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane.

History

Brisbane City Council was formed by the Queensland State Government in 1925 by amalgamating twenty smaller councils. These councils were:

Cities:

Brisbane
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 Brisbane central business district by the Victoria Bridge, Brisbane and the Goodwill Bridge, Brisbane....

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 spectacular views of the Brisbane central business district....
Ithaca
Town of Ithaca

Ithaca was a Local Government Areas of Queensland of Queensland that was amalgamated into the Brisbane City Council. The division of Ithaca was proclaimed in 1879, before becoming a town in 1903, and finally amalgamating into the current Brisbane City Council in 1925....
Sandgate
Sandgate, Queensland

Sandgate is a coastal suburb in Brisbane, Australia located 16km north of the Brisbane central business district....
Toowong
Toowong, Queensland

Toowong is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia which is located 5 km west from 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 3.5km from the CBD. It is largely residential, featuring many old Queenslander , although there is also considerable retail commercial activity, primarily concentrated along Lutwyche and Newmarket Roads....
Wynnum
Wynnum, Queensland

Wynnum is a suburb located on the shores of Moreton Bay in Brisbane, Australia, about 16 kilometres east of the Brisbane CBD. The area was sparsely settled until the arrival of the railway in the late 1880s, but then grew fairly rapidly....

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, Queensland, Holland Park, Queensland, Greenslopes, Queensland, East Brisbane, Queensland, Norman Park, Queensland and Seven Hills, Queensland....
Enoggera
Enoggera, Queensland

Enoggera is a suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. The suburb is located 6km north-west of the Brisbane CBD....
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, Queensland....
Moggill
Moggill, Queensland

Moggill, one of Brisbane, Queensland western suburbs, is about 19 kilometres from the Brisbane 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....
Stephens
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
Tingalpa, Queensland

Tingalpa is located near Manly West and Belmont, Queensland in the Eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. It is located 10 km east of the Brisbane CBD....
Toombul
Yeerongpilly
Yeerongpilly, Queensland

Yeerongpilly is a suburb of in Brisbane, Australia. It is 8km south of the Brisbane central business district.Yeerongpilly is derived from the Indiginous Australians words "yarung" meaning sandy or gravelly or "yurong" meaning rain and "pilly" meaning gully or watercourse....

The City Council also took over the responsibilities for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, for example the Brisbane Tramways Trust.

Structure

Brisbane City Council has an unusual structure with power divided between a powerful executive Lord Mayor, 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....
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 seven standing committees are:

Community Services Committee
Environment and Sustainability Committee
Finance Committee
Public Transport Committee
Roads, TransApex
TransApex

TransApex is transport plan devised by Brisbane Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman as the Liberal candidate in the 2004 local government election in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia....
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 area bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
Brisbane Water
Brisbane Water (utility)

Brisbane Water is a business of the Brisbane City Council in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. Brisbane Water is responsible for the water supply system and wastewater removal and treatment throughout the metropolitan area....

Brisbane City Council also used to own the QEII Stadium (also known as ANZ Stadium, home of the 1982 Commonwealth Games), before it was handed over to the Queensland Government's Major Sporting Facility Authority (MSFA), which operates Suncorp Stadium, the Gabba, Dairy Farmers Stadium, ANZ Stadium and the Gold Coast's

Gold Coast, Queensland

The Gold Coast is a city and Local Government Areas of Australia in the South East Queensland corner of Queensland, Australia. It is the second most populous city in the state and the List of cities in Australia by population in the country....
Skilled Park Stadium at Robina

Robina, Queensland

Robina is the third largest suburb on the Gold Coast, Queensland of Australia and 'is designed to be a people place'. The Robina Town Centre shopping centre and Bond University are located in Robina....
.

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

Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....
while 16 councillors and the Lord Mayor are from the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an List of political parties in Australia.Founded a year after the Australian federal election, 1943 to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office....
. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is former civil engineer

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
Campbell Newman

Campbell Newman

Campbell Newman is the current Lord Mayor of Brisbane of Brisbane, Australia. He was elected in 2004, and re-elected in 2008. As the Brisbane City Council is by far the largest Local Government Areas of Australia in Australia, Newman was sometimes described as the most senior elected Liberal Party of Australia in Australia during the period...
who belongs to the Liberal Party and who is only the second Liberal Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The current Deputy Lord Mayor is [Graham Quirk], who belongs to the Liberal Party. The day-to-day management of Council's operations is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking Corporate title or Administration in charge of total management of a corporation, company, non-profit organization, or government agency, reporting to the board of directors....
who is currently Jude Munro.

Election

Election

An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern Representative democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional government and local government....
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 requires electors to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. With a secret ballot voters remain free to Spoilt vote or remove them from the polling booth, depending on the voting system....
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 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 and its unique structure is incorporated under the City of Brisbane Act 1924, while other local governments in Queensland are bound by the Local Government Act 1993.

Council meetings are held at Brisbane City Hall every Tuesday at 2pm except during recess and holiday periods. 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 describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. A motto may be in any language, but Latin is the most used....
of Brisbane City Council is Meliora sequimur, Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
for We aim for better things. Its 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 a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations....
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 poinsettia

Poinsettia

Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly named poinsettia, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Mexico and Guatemala.The name "poinsettia" is after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Ambassador to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the United States in 1828....
and its faunal emblem is the Graceful Tree Frog

Dainty Green Tree Frog

The Dainty Green Tree Frog 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, New South Wales in New South Wales, with a small and most likely introduced population in Hornsby Heights, New South Wales in Sydney....
.

Wards

As of 6 April 2006, 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 List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	David Hinchliffe David Hinchliffe (Australian politician) David Hinchliffe is an Australian politician and member of the Brisbane City Council. He was Deputy Mayor of the Council until March 2008, when Liberal Mayor Campbell Newman won an outright majority....
Chandler	LNP	Adrian Schrinner
Deagon	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Victoria Newton
Doboy	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	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 List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Gail MacPherson
Macgregor	LNP	Graham Quirk Graham Quirk Graham Quirk is an Australian politician and currently councillor for the ward of MacGregor, and the Deputy Mayor of the City of Brisbane, serving under Lord Mayor Campbell Newman....
Marchant	LNP	Fiona King
McDowall	LNP	Norm Wyndham
Moorooka	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Steve Griffiths
Morningside	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Shayne Sutton
Northgate	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	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 Multicultural Affairs and International Rela...
Pullenvale	LNP	Margaret de Wit
Richlands	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Milton Dick
Tennyson	LNP	Nicole Johnston
The Gabba	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Helen Abrahams
The Gap	LNP	Geraldine Knapp
Toowong	LNP	Peter Matic
Walter Taylor	LNP	Jane Prentice
Wishart	LNP	Krista Adams
Wynnum Manly	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an List of political parties in Australia.Known as the Australian Labor Party#Etymology for short, the party is the current governing party of Australia, since the Australian federal election, 2007....	Peter Cumming

Sister cities

Brisbane has seven sister cities. They are: Kobe
Kobe

is the List of Japanese cities by population in Japan and as the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million....
, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
(July 1985) Auckland
Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....
, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
(August 1988) Shenzhen
Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city of sub-provincial city administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong....
, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
(June 1992) Semarang
Semarang

Semarang is a city on the north coast of the island of Java , Indonesia. It is the capital of the province of Central Java. It has an area of 373.67 km? and a population of approximately 1.5 million people, making it Indonesia's fifth largest city....
, Indonesia

Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
(January 1993) Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan. It is enclosed by the Kaohsiung County, and faces the Taiwan Strait on the west. As one of two Direct-controlled municipality under the administration of Republic of China , Kaohsiung is officially named as the Kaohsiung City, a Province -level political division....
, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
(September 1997) Daejeon
Daejeon

Daejeon is the capital city of Chungcheongnamdo Province, located in the center of South Korea. It is the fifth largest city in South Korea, with a population of 1,442,856 at the end of 2005....
, South Korea

South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
(June 2002) Chongqing
Chongqing

Chongqing is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic of China's four provinces of China-level municipality of China, and the only one in the less densely populated western region of China....
, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
(October 2005)

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

Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories 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.

Brisbane Community Profiles

is a new tool which will enable you to acquire detailed demographic profiles for any area of Brisbane Local Government Area. Providing population and housing census data for 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991, the Brisbane Community Profiles is an user friendly web-based based service which allows historical trend analysis and current snapshots for age profiles, incomes, employment, educational attainment, family size, multicultural diversity and home ownership just to name a few.

Brisbane City Council

History

Structure

Heraldry

Wards

Sister cities

Brisbane Community Profiles

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