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Brisbane and discovered
In 1828, Allan Cunningham ' officially ' discovered the route through the mountains now called Cunninghams Gap, however it can be easily seen from Brisbane.
Oxley discovered, named and explored the Brisbane River as far as Goodna, upstream from the Brisbane central business district.
In 1824 Oxley, accompanied by Allan Cunningham, discovered the Brisbane River and Bremer River on Moreton Bay, which has since developed into the city of Brisbane.
The area was first explored by European colonists in 1826, when Captain Patrick Logan, Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, sailed up the Brisbane River and discovered large deposits of limestone and other minerals.
Oxley discovered the rich Northern Rivers and New England regions of New South Wales, and in what is now Queensland he explored the present site of Brisbane.
Hendra virus ( originally Equine morbillivirus ) was discovered in September 1994 when it caused the deaths of thirteen horses, and a trainer at a training complex in Hendra, a suburb of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
" Ompax spatuloides ", a supposed ganoid fish said to have been discovered in 1872 and named by Castelnau, was a joke originally directed at Karl Staiger, the director of the Brisbane Museum.
*: A semi-naked body of a woman was discovered in August 2002 beside a police station in the Brisbane suburb of Hendra.
Even though gold was discovered north of Brisbane, around Maryborough and Gympie, most of the proceeds went south to Sydney and Melbourne.
In June 1827, he was rewarded for his many explorations when he discovered 4 million acres ( 16, 000 km² ) of rich farming and grazing land bordered on the east by the Great Dividing Range and situated 100 miles ( 160 km ) west of the settlement of Moreton Bay ( later to become Brisbane ).
Major Edmund Lockyer discovered outcrops of coal along the banks of the upper Brisbane River in 1825.

Brisbane and Goulburn
However, Brisbane did not always receive loyal support from his administrative officers, and in particular from Frederick Goulburn, the colonial secretary.
Between Warwick and Tamworth the New England Highway, as well as being part of the national route between Sydney and Brisbane, is also an important interstate link between Queensland and Victoria, connecting to Melbourne via the Oxley Highway to the Newell Highway ( which becomes the Goulburn Valley Highway where it crosses the Murray River ).
The network expanded to cover Canberra and Goulburn in 1983, followed by Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold Coast in June 1985.

Brisbane and colonial
They were led by Hubertus Johannes van Mook, a pre-war Dutch colonial administrator who led the Dutch East Indies government-in-exile in Brisbane, Australia.
Especially harsh floggings were given with it in secondary penal colonies of early colonial Australia, particularly at such places as Norfolk Island ( apparently this has 9 leather thongs, each with a lead weight, meant as the ultimate deterrent for hardened life-convicts ), Port Arthur and Moreton Bay ( now Brisbane ).
Musgrave was at the point of retiring from the colonial service when he died at his desk in Brisbane on 9 October 1888.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is named for Sir Thomas Brisbane ( 1773 – 1860 ), British soldier and colonial administrator born in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The suburb is indirectly named after Isabella Maria Brisbane ( 1821 – 1849 ), who was the daughter of Thomas Brisbane the colonial Governor of New South Wales when the area was first explored by white settlers in 1823.

Brisbane and secretary
But Brisbane did not accept this view of it, as in a letter to the secretary, Wilmot Horton, dated 24 March 1825 he mentions the " discovery of new and valuable country.
He arrived at Brisbane on 10 December 1859 and brought Herbert with him as his private secretary.
QRL secretary Ron McAullife negotiated a 21 year lease of Lang Park from the Brisbane City Council in order to give the QRL a financially viable base of operations.
Born as Florence Isabel Gilmour in Brisbane, she was employed as private secretary to the Queensland Commissioner for Main Roads when she met Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, who was then a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
Ron McAuliffe became secretary to the organisation and began negotiations with the Brisbane City Council to lease Lang Park.
In 1953 the friction between the Queensland Rugby League and Brisbane Rugby League ended, with the BRL being replaced by the Brisbane division of the QRL .. Former BRL chairman and QRL secretary Ron McAullife eventually secured the use of Lang Park as a permanent home for rugby league in Queensland.

Brisbane and had
In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.
It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.
In 1988, Essendon made a rebound to sixth place with twelve wins, including a 140-point thrashing of Brisbane where they had a record sixteen individual goalkickers.
However, he shifted towards imaginary landscapes in places he had never visited, like Mt Cloubelle of West India or Mt Mowbullan in Dividing Range near Brisbane Australia.
A new generation of Australian garage rock bands, inspired mainly by The Stooges and MC5, was coming even closer to the sound that would soon be called " punk ": In Brisbane, The Saints also recalled the raw live sound of the British Pretty Things, who had made a notorious tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1965.
Karen Knowles had a string of Gold Records, and continues to perform regularly around Australia-including performances at various Christmas Concerts, including Melbourne's annual " Carols By Candlelight " and at the 2010 " Lord Mayors Carols In The City " at the Riverstage in Brisbane.
The Brisbane independent radio Station 4ZZZ had run a survey under the same name and on the same day since 1977 and owned the rights to the name Hot 100.
Jack Fingleton speculated that had the decision at Brisbane gone against him, Bradman would have retired, such were his fitness problems.
Brisbane, playing against Port Adelaide, had the chance to equal Collingwood's record of four premierships in a row.
They had 18 children, one of whom was Edward Wyndam Tufnell, the first Bishop of Brisbane
During McNamee's tenure, he had drawn criticisms for holidaying in Wimbledon to compete in a legends match and after his sacking an attempt to lure Brisbane Lions star Jonathan Brown was also revealed.
This was followed up with a 10-point win over the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba where the Demons had not won since 2006.
An example of a theme of a recent International Specialised Exposition is the 1988 World Exposition, popularly known as World Expo 88 of Brisbane, Australia, which had as its theme " Leisure in the Age of Technology ".
The 2010 United States Census reported that Brisbane had a population of 4, 282.
Brisbane, Queensland Australia briefly had a small number of Belisha beacon marked crossings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the majority of Australian crossings are zebra crossings marked by large yellow circular signs bearing a walking legs symbol.
By 2004 its fleet had expanded to five Boeing 737-300 aircraft and it was providing direct non-stop services to the Australian cities of Brisbane, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne from Hamilton, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North.
More recent noteworthy examples include The Dakin Building in Brisbane, California, and the Gulf Building in Houston, Texas, which when constructed in 1929 had a porcelain logo on its exterior.
The duo performed at several venues, including Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne as well as numerous tour dates which had followed throughout 2007.
It had taken almost a century to get Brisbane's north and south rail networks joined by a bridge over the Brisbane River.
Thus, in the early 1920s the growing University had to look for a more spacious campus as its original site at George Street, Brisbane has limited room for expansion.
The ASX had agreed with the Queensland State Government to locate staff in Brisbane in exchange for the stamp duty reduction there, and the other states followed suit so as not to lose brokerage business to Queensland.
After the floods had ceased and tides returned to normal, the currents of the bay and sometimes boats were used to direct the timber north to the Brisbane River or to Dunwich for shipment to Sydney.
Wavell Heights, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, was named in his honour in 1941, after a request by the Brisbane City Council to rename an area which had been previously known as West Nundah.

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