In their early years, the Sydney and Brisbane clubs struggled both on and off-field because the substantial TV revenues they generated by playing on a Sunday went to the VFL.

The Brisbane Lions were officially launched on 1 November 1996, joining the national competition in 1997.

Examples of narrow gauge systems are found in Japan, Switzerland, in the Brisbane ( Citytrain ) and Perth ( Transperth ) systems in Australia, in Sweden, and on the Genoa-Casella line in Italy.

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.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

Gosford proper is located in a valley with President's Hill on the city's western border and Rumbalara Reserve on its eastern border, and Brisbane water to the city's south.

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.

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.

The City-County owns several disjunct properties along the whole of the Peninsula ( mostly water pumping stations connected to the Hetch Hetchy Valley on which San Francisco has a permanent leasehold ); thus, most of the larger communities in San Mateo County are de facto suburbs of San Francisco, with the neighboring communities of Pacifica, Daly City, Broadmoor, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Brisbane being immediate suburbs.

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 production transferred thence to Brisbane, where it opened at the Opera House on 15 July, and subsequently embarked upon an eight-week repertory tour of other regional centres in Queensland, including Charters Towers, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Maryborough.

A solo leg through Australia began in Melbourne on 12 November 2009 and ended in Brisbane on 24 November 2009.

The first commercial networks in Australia involved commercial stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and later Perth, sharing programming, with each network forming networks based on their allocated channel numbers: TCN-9 Sydney, GTV-9 Melbourne, QTQ-9 Brisbane, NWS-9 Adelaide and STW-9 Perth together formed the Nine Network, while their equivalents on VHF channels 7 and 10 formed the Seven Network and Network Ten respectively.

Amazingly, after 15 rounds of the 1993 season, with North Melbourne on top of the AFL ladder, Carey was leading the club in marks, disposals and goals, before he was injured in their round 16 clash with Brisbane and did not play again until round 20.

Concerts in Brisbane, and Melbourne, Australia were performed on October 29, and November 12, respectively.

Over 12, 000 people attended the outdoor concert held in Brisbane at the 1988 World Expo on the banks of the Brisbane River.

Extensive port facilities have been constructed on Fisherman's Island, now known as the Port of Brisbane.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

As part of the plan, services to Auckland, Brisbane, Perth and Ho Chi Minh City will be suspended effective after the last scheduled flights of October 2011.

Kerr and Burchill apparently saw his actions as a betrayal, and MacNeil played his last concert with Simple Minds in Brisbane a week later.

Pronouncing the word with an in place of the is considered by Australians to be a canonically American error — similar to pronouncing the last syllables of Melbourne and Brisbane as " born " and " bane ", respectively, rather than with a reduced vowel.

The bridge is unique among Brisbane bridges in that the two towers of the bridge house residential accommodation, which were occupied until mid 2010 when the last members of the original tollmaster's family moved out.

In 1988 – 89 at Brisbane he took a ' complicated ' hat trick, dismissing Australia's Tony Dodemaide with the last ball of the first innings and Mike Veletta and Graeme Wood with his first two deliveries in the second.

Lynch is a Tasmanian football legend, a favourite son at both Fitzroy and Brisbane clubs and holds the record for the most combined goals for the merged entity and one of the last remaining former Fitzroy players to play in the AFL.

Time Warner organized the 2001 Games in Brisbane, Australia, before announcing that this would be the last edition of the games.

However, the Brisbane Courier reported in 1879 that the Brisbane FC had reverted to what had become known as the ' Victorian rules ', “ in place of the Rugby Union Rules played by the club during the last three seasons ”.

As a member of the Brisbane Bullets he won two more NBL titles in 1985 and 1987, and won his last title as a North Melbourne Giant in 1994.

Also in 1972 Bennett played for Toowoomba in the last ever Bulimba Cup final against Brisbane.

George last performed live in Brisbane on 22 December 2004 and are currently on hiatus whilst individual members attend to their own projects.

Triple M stations currently occupy the last place among FM Commercial stations in the ratings, however in Brisbane and Adelaide they record much closer ratings results, with lower competition.

The last commuter ferries between Brisbane Water townships ceased in 1971.

In 1925 the company tendered unsuccessfully to construct the South Brisbane-Richmond Gap ( on the New-South Wales-Queensland border ) section of the last stage of the standard gauge railway linking Sydney and Brisbane.

It was the last single screen cinema in Brisbane.

Cog played what many had believed to be their last show at The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday 12 June 2010, thanking their various crew members one by one between songs.

In the last few years, the show has been using another theme specifically for the for Top Fifty, sampled from the song " She Said " by now-defunct Brisbane band Lavish.

Her final stage appearance was at Hamilton, New Zealand, and her last public performance was in a televised concert in Brisbane in 1962.

The passenger service has been operated with a variety of rolling stock over the past few decades, and was the last suburban service in Australia to be operated by a locomotive hauled train, after the demise of similar services in Brisbane by Queensland Rail.

Steven Bryce Valerio ( born August 16, 1977 ) is a former Costa Rican football player, who last played for A-League club Brisbane Roar.

On 13 June 1942 Crutchley succeeded Rear-Admiral John Crace in command of Task Force 44, the Australian Squadron, based in Brisbane, Australia, the last Briton to do so.

It is the first of three consecutive premierships for Brisbane & until March 2007, the last ever game of Australian rules football broadcast on the Seven Network until 2008.

In Australia, particularly in Brisbane and Sydney, limited stop services are formed by commuter trains which run as limited stops or express services from the city centre to the edge of the suburban area and then as all stops in the interurban area.

On March 17, 1948, near Central station in Brisbane, Paterson intervened to stop a police officer who was assaulting a demonstrator.

Commencing at the Domestic Terminal, all services stop at the International Terminal and Eagle Junction railway station, then express to Bowen Hills, then all stations though the Brisbane CBD to at least Roma Street.

Trains still travelled through South Brisbane during that period but did not stop.

The Brisbane City Council, however, were unable to stop the development, as the building complied with all regulations and zoning requirements, and so the Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman, asked the state government to stop the project.

By City Cat, the Regatta CityCat stop located outside the Regatta Hotel on Coronation Drive allows transport downstream towards the Brisbane CBD and upstream towards the University of Queensland

A stop at " nine miles forty four chain " from Brisbane was established when the line between Ipswich and Brisbane was built in 1874.

Off-peak and weekend trains on the Gold Coast Line running from Brisbane Central to Varsity Lakes stop at Loganlea, operating as expresses.

Both the museum's name and its location in Toowoomba rather than Brisbane, derive from the fact that Toowoomba was the first stop of the Cobb & Co coach service that ran in from the southern cities to Queensland from 1866 until 1924.

Though the organisers stressed that the event was well-organised and in accordance with public liability, security and OHS regulations, Brisbane City Council had given in to political pressure from individuals and groups such as the Young Women's Christian Association to stop " Blokesworld Live " from going ahead.