While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

The report of this statement in the Brisbane Courier was as follows.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

In 2001, Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE – then the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane – was controversially appointed Governor-General of Australia.

The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.

Instead, Fitzroy was placed into administration, and its administrator accepted an offer to merge with Brisbane.

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.

Three years later, James Hird was jointly awarded the medal with Michael Voss of Brisbane.

Power's Brewery, south of Brisbane, was taken over by CUB and is now used to brew Victoria Bitter and other Foster's Group brands in Queensland, ( including Foster's Lager ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

The public role adopted by Sir John Kerr was curtailed considerably after the constitutional crisis of 1975 ; Sir William Deane's public statements on political issues produced some hostility towards him ; and some charities disassociated themselves from Peter Hollingworth after the issue of his management of sex abuse cases during his time as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane became a matter of controversy.

Along with the other land around the Hawkesbury River estuary, the Brisbane Water district was explored during the early stages of the settlement of Sydney.

The first road between Hawkesbury, ( near Pittwater ) to Brisbane Water was only a cart wheel track even in 1850.

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.

While on a state visit in March 2005, Prime Minister Somare was asked to submit to a security check and remove his shoes upon arriving at the airport in Brisbane.

A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album Bee Gees ' 1st ( 1967 ), recorded in London, gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles.

In the 2010 post-season it was reported that Crowe's influence was critical in persuading Greg Inglis, one of the world's best players, to renege on his deal to join the Brisbane Broncos and sign for the Rabbitohs for 2011.

Benaud started the series with seven wickets and a half century as the First Test in Brisbane was drawn.

* The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM ), with the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations to be held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, was postponed.

Strachan was killed in an air crash on 29 August 2001, when the helicopter he was learning to fly solo crashed into Mount Archer near Kilcoy, northwest of Brisbane.

The VHF TV band in Australia was originally allocated channels 1 to 10-with channels 2, 7 and 9 assigned for the initial services in Sydney and Melbourne, and later the same channels were assigned in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

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.

TEN-10 in Sydney, which opened on 5 April 1965, was originally owned by United Telecasters Sydney Ltd ( UTSL ), who also in July that year opened TVQ-0 in Brisbane.

Darville was briefly a columnist with the Brisbane daily newspaper, The Courier-Mail, before being dismissed over accusations of plagiarism for repeating jokes originally from the Evil Overlord List in one of her columns and passing them off as her own.

Seeds were extracted from two mature cones collected from the same tree, a cultivated specimen at Petrie, just north of Brisbane ( originally the homestead of Andrew Petrie, the first European to report the species ).

It was originally known as Boondall, which was moved to its current location upon the opening of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Nania, originally from Geelong, had played with the Golden Lifestyle Band ; Bolger, originally from Brisbane, had played bass in Clag and Sleepy Township and in looser configurations such as an improvisational group with Mia Schoen and Ellen Turner ; Williams had been a member of Perth group Molasses and, in the early days of Panel of Judges was also drumming in Melbourne band Jaguar is Jaguar ; and Nichols had been a formative figure in the Hanshalf Trio in Melbourne, Crabstick and Blairmailer in Sydney, and the ' travelling ' group Ruff Buff.

The site of Lang Park was originally the North Brisbane Burial Grounds, and until 1875 was Brisbane's primary cemetery.

It was officially known as " Brisbane Jail " but was commonly known as " Boggo Road Jail " because Annerley Road became known as " Boggo Road " due to its poor condition, after originally being named " Bolgo Road ".

The site of Aurora Tower was originally proposed in 1992 to be the site for the Brisbane 2000 tower.

The Nepal Peace Pagoda was originally located on the Expo site and was moved to its new South Bank Parklands riverfront location at the conclusion of the Expo after a successful government and private fundraising campaign to keep the Pagoda in Brisbane.

The land upon which Archerfield airfield is now situated ( Portion 18, Parish of Yeerongpilly ) was originally purchased in 1855 by Thomas Grenier, publican of the Brisbane Hotel in Russell Street, South Brisbane.

She was originally engaged to Dick Brisbane.

The school originally opened as a branch of the Brisbane Grammar School, with fifty students, under the direction of a Lady Principal, Janet O ' Connor.

The open book was also borrowed from Oxford University, where over half of the original staff of Brisbane Grammar School were originally secured.

The suburb was originally founded as a stop-over for journeys from Brisbane south ( Logan and Albert river valleys ) and south-west ( Ipswich and beyond ).

It began as Seven's Super Saturday, later becoming the Super Saturday Show, which only aired on Saturday mornings and was originally only broadcast in Brisbane.

The first section, opened in Brisbane in 1973, was originally known as the South East Freeway.

It was located in the inner southern suburbs of Brisbane, and originally included the suburbs of South Brisbane, Woolloongabba and Coorparoo.

The Pinkenba railway station was originally the terminus of the Pinkenba Line, just 9 km ( 6 mi ) from the Brisbane central business district ; 14. 1 km from Central station by rail.

Management of the mall was originally covered by the Local Government ( Queen Street Mall ) Act 1981 ( Qld ), until it was repealed and replaced by the City of Brisbane Act 2010 ( Qld ).