Beattie's self-description as a " media tart " as well as his political successes have led to a love-hate relationship with The Courier-Mail, Brisbane's daily newspaper.

In Australia, a minor literary scandal erupted in 1997 when it emerged that award-winning author Helen Darville plagiarised this list for her regular column in Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper, which led to her being fired.

Hearst did not know of Bierce's column, and claimed to have pulled Brisbane's after it ran in a first edition, but the incident would haunt him for the rest of his life, and all but destroyed his presidential ambitions.

Even a friend named Mr. Hartmann ( John Carroll Lynch ) gives a " consultation fee " of $ 50, 000 ( as Brisbane's irresponsibility got him thrown out, Hartman is now the president of the bank ).

On 14 January 2012, during the game between Brisbane Roar and Sydney FC, Bosschaart was embroiled in controversy, when following the game Brisbane's Albanian striker Besart Berisha ran up behind the Dutchman and tugged him on the shoulder before running towards the tunnel, motioning that he wanted to fight Bosschaart.

Some misapprehension having since arisen about his being authorized by Vernet to act in his stead, I may here mention again ( though no longer of any material consequence ), that Brisbane's instructions from Vernet authorized him to act as his private agent only, to look after the remains of his private property, and that they had not the slightest reference to civil or military authority.

" I afterwards interrogated an old German, while Brisbane was out of sight, and after him a young native of Buenos Ayres, who both corroborated Brisbane's account.

Similar to many large bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Brisbane's Story Bridge has become notorious as a suicide hotspot.

In 2010 Beit Knesset Shalom became Brisbane's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation.

Rugby League also had some memorable moments including: The 1989 NSWRL Grand Final which was won by the Canberra Raiders over the Balmain Tigers 19-14 in extra-time for their first premiership: The 1991 NSWRL Grand Final won by the Penrith Panthers over Canberra 19-12 in which Penrith's Royce Simmons scored 2 tries in his final match giving the Panthers their first title: Brisbane's maiden premiership with a 28-8 win over St. George in 1992 NSWRL Grand Final, and the 1997 ARL Grand Final between the Newcastle Knights and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, with the Knights winning their first title with a 22-16 win following a try to Darren Albert in the dying seconds of the game after the Knights had trailed Manly since early in the game.

It was Brisbane's first railway station, opening in 1876.

He was drafted by the Brisbane Lions in 1997 from the East Fremantle Football Club, and he debuted in the first game of the 1998 season and quickly became one of Brisbane's best players.

It is also home to Brisbane's first Apple Store.

It was the home of Brisbane's first Resident Judge, Alfred Lutwyche.

The redevelopment was completed in time for the match between the Brisbane Broncos and Newcastle Knights on June 1, 2003 ; Brisbane's first game at Suncorp Stadium for more than a decade.

The Young Designers Market is held on the first Sunday of every month ( 10: 00am – 4: 00pm ), and features cutting edge garments and accessories from some of Brisbane's most talented young designers.

The Darra to Ipswich electric line was commissioned in 1980, one year after Brisbane's first electric train line, linking Ferny Grove railway station to Darra, was operational.

On 9 October, he was officially traded to the Brisbane Lions, along with a second round draft pick (# 27 overall ) in exchange for Brisbane's Lachlan Henderson and a first round draft pick (# 12 overall ).

* Light Street, Newstead (" L ") – closed for commercial redevelopment, first used as a transport depot in 1885 when it was the main tram depot for Brisbane's horse tram network.

However, he continued to play for Northern Districts in Brisbane's district competition, as well as making sporadic first class appearances for private teams, which played in New Zealand, the West Indies, Rhodesia, Kenya and Pakistan.

The station was one terminus for the first of Brisbane's electric rail lines, linking to Ferny Grove railway station in 1979.

This cartoon drawn by Alan Moir, first published on 13 May 1982 in Brisbane's The Courier-Mail, is typical of the public reaction to the High Court's decision.

After Brisbane's departure Rümker was placed in charge of the observatory by the government in May 1826, Rümker being the first to hold the title of government astronomer.

* < font color = blue > Lutwyche </ font >-named after Brisbane's first Resident Judge, Alfred Lutwyche

Brisbane's first mayor was John Petrie

Brisbane's first modern apartment building, Torbreck at Highgate Hill, was completed in 1960.

Son John Petrie becomes Brisbane's first mayor ; other son Tom writes sympathetically about local Indigenous people.

Logan Road, one of Brisbane's first major roads, bisects this slightly hilly suburb.

New Farm is known as Brisbane's " Little Italy " as many immigrants from Italian descent first settled in the suburb.

WSC also gained access to Brisbane's Test ground, The Gabba, and were offered use of the Adelaide Oval, which was rejected.

The American and British batteries settled down to a duel in which the Americans gained a slight advantage, while Brisbane's feint attack at the bridges was easily repulsed.

He played for Brisbane's Brothers club and in 1974 under coach Paul Broughton reached the Grand Final which they lost to Fortitude Valley.

The theatre group is also host to Brisbane's longest running community theatre festival – the Yarrageh festival which is run in August / September each year at the Town Hall.

In an unrelated game of the same name, which is thought to have originated in Brisbane's West End, players stand in a circle holding sticks such as broom handles.

He was buried in Brisbane's Lutwyche Cemetery which, coincidentally, is located on the corner of Gympie and Kitchener Roads.

A number of Brisbane's most popular restaurants and fashion boutiques are located on Grey Street, and Little Stanley Street which it runs parallel to.

The key centres of population were Strathpine, which formed a mini-CBD for the area ; Petrie and Kallangur further to the north, and Albany Creek and the Hills District closer to Brisbane's boundary.

The Local Government Reform Commission's reasoning was that it would unite all of Brisbane's northern suburbs beyond the Brisbane City boundary into one local government area which would, in its view, simplify and streamline planning, approvals and governance.

In the weeks leading up to the Battle of Brisbane there were several major incidents, including a gun battle between an American soldier and Australian troops near Inkerman which left one Australian and the American dead, an Australian soldier was shot by an American MP in Townsville, an American serviceman and three Australian soldiers in Brisbane's Centenary Park were involved in a knife fight which left one Australian dead, an American soldier was arrested for stabbing three servicemen and a Brisbane woman near the Central railway Station, and twenty Australians fought American submariners and members of the USN Shore Patrol, mauling them badly.

The respected small forward / goalsneak retired from professional football after the 2004 Grand Final loss to Port Adelaide, which included playing in Brisbane's 2001, 2002 and 2003 premierships.

*: Detectives would only uncover the truth after many months of painstaking investigation, during which they befriended Brisbane's street workers, met up with bondage devotees, and tracked down a unique Mitsubishi Ute that held many of the answers they'd been searching for.

QPAC contains some of Brisbane's main theatres ( Lyric Theatre, Concert Hall, Cremorne Theatre, and the Playhouse ), and the Tony Gould Gallery which is operated by the Queensland Museum and displays historical material related to theatre in Queensland.

Tallis returned to the game with the Broncos for the 1997 Super League season and was the most dominant forward in the competition, which culminated in Brisbane's crushing 26 – 8 win over the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the Telstra Cup grand final.

If Tallis ' stature as the most dominant forward in the game wasn't secure following Brisbane's 14 – 6 win over the Roosters in the 2000 NRL grand final, his four tries in Australia's 82 – 0 humiliation of Papua New Guinea before the 2000 World Cup, and his selection as Australian captain for the match against Russia ( which resulted in a record 110 – 4 victory ) did.

In March of that year, major flooding of the Brisbane River inundated the centre of town, in April, fires devastated the west side of Queen Street, which was the main shopping district and in December, another fire, which was Brisbane's worst ever, wiped out the rest of Queen Street and adjoining streets.

This Homemaker Centre includes one of north Brisbane's three Bunnings Warehouse stores, which became a part of the Carseldine Homemaker Centre in 2002 ( Bunnings previously traded individually there for about 4 years ).