Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

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.

* 1825 – The City of Brisbane is founded ( see History of Brisbane ).

* The Brisbane City Council, ( Brisbane, Australia ), is created from the amlgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.

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 area boomed in the 1980s as a leading tourist destination and in 1994, the Gold Coast City local government area was expanded to encompass the majority of the Gold Coast's metropolitan area, becoming the second most populous local government area in Australia after the City of Brisbane.

Gold Coast City is situated in the southeast corner of Queensland, to the south of Brisbane, the state capital.

It is separated from Logan City, a suburban area of Brisbane by the Albert River.

The city is governed at the local level by the Gold Coast City Council, the second largest local government in the country behind Brisbane City.

* Westfield Garden City, a shopping centre in Upper Mount Gravatt, Brisbane

Brisbane City Hall

Brisbane is called " The City of Stars " because of a holiday tradition established over 65 years ago.

Brisbane was originally part of Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitación y Rodeo Viejo, a large tract of land that included the Cañada de Guadalupe ( now Guadalupe Valley ), and also the Bayshore district of Daly City, the Visitacion Valley district of San Francisco, and San Bruno Mountain.

He proposed the name change from Visitacion City to Brisbane.

Annis regarded the name Visitacion City as a handicap " being so close to a San Francisco city district with a similar name ", a situation he felt would confuse people and would prevent " Brisbane " from establishing its own unique identity.

Universal Paragon's proposed Brisbane Baylands project, if approved by Brisbane voters, proposes to more than double the existing employment base of the City by providing new office, research & development, retail, hotel and other land uses that are accessible by a proposed multi-modal transit station ( Caltrain, Muni T-Third light rail and proposed Bus Rapid Transit ).

Daly City is bordered by the cities of San Francisco, Brisbane, Pacifica, South San Francisco, and the town of Colma.

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.

* Riverside Centre, Brisbane, a commercial centre in the Brisbane central business district, Queensland

* Riverside Ferry Wharf, Brisbane, part of the Riverside Centre

In round 14 against Brisbane, playing back in his customary Centre Half Forward position, Carey became only the second player, after Leigh Matthews, to record 5 plus goals and 20 plus disposals in a game for the 30th time in his career.

* the Women ’ s House Library Zine Collection at the Brisbane Rape and Incest Survivors Support Centre, Brisbane, Queensland

* 1983 – 86: Riverside Centre, Brisbane, Australia

File: 2006-04-12-Riverside. jpg | Riverside Centre, Brisbane ( 1983 – 86 )

Their puppets are now held in the Moncrieff Library of the Performing Arts, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane.

Victoria Bridge connects the South Bank Parklands and Queensland Cultural Centre to the Brisbane central business district ( CBD ) at North Quay.

* Brisbane City Centre Draft Masterplan

Chermside Drive-In Shopping Centre started trading to the public in 1957, in Brisbane, Australia.

Confusion with the Stadium's current naming rights relates to the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre in Brisbane, which was also formerly known as ANZ Stadium.

Between 2 August 2006 and 2 June 2007, Warlow appeared in the Opera Australia production of " The Pirates of Penzance " ( a popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera ), in which he played the role of the " Pirate King " — with performances during 2006 in Sydney, New South Wales ( at the Sydney Opera House ), in Canberra, ACT and in Brisbane, Queensland ( at the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre ), as well as enjoying full houses in Melbourne, Victoria in 2007.

Keating toured Australia and New Zealand in the beginning of 2012 at the state theatre in Sydney, Brisbane convention centre, Melbourne Regent Theatre, Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Canberra Royal Theatre, Wollongong Entertainment Centre, Adelaide festival theatre and at Perth Kings Park in front of 29, 000 in all making 1. 6 million pounds.

* Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, Brisbane, April 2014

With the appointment of Professor Peter Swannell as Vice-Chancellor in 1996 the University underwent a further period of exceptional growth which included the establishment of a Wide Bay Campus, later renamed USQ Fraser Coast, and a Brisbane Centre in 1997, the USQ European Study Centre in Bretten, Germany in 1998 and the building of a number of landmark structures on campus.

Soorley also instituted a number of institutional changes including a 24 / 7 Call Centre ; " business style " accounting for budgets and annual reporting, enterprise bargaining, significant changes to leave and other entitlements, increased employment opportunities through increased apprenticeships, traineeships and community jobs programs, including a nationally awarded program for " at risk youth " who were recovering from drug addiction, as well as a shift from Brisbane Council being only concerned with " rates, roads, rubbish " to taking on issues such as drug use, homelessness, domestic violence and social justice.

The Roma Street Parkland is adjacent to Brisbane Transit Centre and the Roma Street Station.

The second match of the series took place in Brisbane, Australia on June 2 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre with the Western Conference victorious 45 – 36.

Pedestrian access to the station is through the ground floor entrance of the Brisbane Transit Centre, a walkway from the end of George Street, or through the Roma Street Parkland.

Despite being widely tipped as a first round prospect ,, Black was drafted by the Brisbane Lions with selection No. 31 in the 1997 National Draft.

Brown was selected by the Brisbane Lions in the 1999 AFL Draft under the Father-Son Rule and subsequently made the move to Brisbane and was immediately groomed as the club's centre half forward.

Having played for the Eastlake Football Club in Canberra, and the NSW / ACT Under 18s team, Bolton was picked by Brisbane in the 3rd round of the 1998 AFL Draft.

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.

In recent times, rivalries have been sparked with the new interstate clubs, including Port Adelaide, and the Brisbane Lions.

Three new P-40Es, still in crates, were shipped from Brisbane, Australia, by blockade runner on 22 February but ran aground on 9 March on a reef between Bohol and Leyte.

The new service initially covered Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, while original stations 2EA and 3EA were renamed Radio Sydney and Radio Melbourne, respectively.

Before the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 the Government of Queensland asked John Bradfield to design a new bridge in Brisbane.

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.

In 1823, Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane, instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay.

Chief Justice Forbes gave the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane.

European settlement began in earnest after the abandonment of the Redcliffe settlement, and work began on the new convict settlement several miles up the Brisbane River in 1825.

* The 1988 NSWRL season sees the debuts of three new franchises: Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Chargers and Newcastle Knights.

A Beginner Progression class ( also known variously as Bridging, Beginner Consolidation, Intromediate or Freestyle class ) taught at the same time as the Intermediate or Intermediate / Advanced class has also been introduced in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Adelaide, involving a breakdown of technique and either a review of the preceding Beginner class ( possibly with some extensions or variations to the moves from that class ) or a new routine drawn from a mixture of intermediate and beginner level moves.

The project entailed new bypass tracks in Brisbane and Sunnyvale as well as a new centralized traffic control system.

In the 1980s and the 1990s, with land in nearby Brisbane becoming fully developed, and very expensive for housing, many new large scale housing estates became attractive for buyers in Ipswich with lower prices and bigger lots.

A new convict settlement was named after him, and became today's city of Brisbane.

In 1823 Brisbane sent Lieutenant John Oxley to find a new site for convicts who were repeat offenders.

In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find an answer to the mystery of where New South Wales's western rivers flowed.

In 2009, more new jobs were created in Melbourne than any other Australian capital-almost as many as the next two fastest growing cities, Brisbane and Perth, combined.

However he left a financially struggling Fitzroy to become a prize recruit for a new look Brisbane Bears after the club's move from the Gold Coast.

In the 1990s in Sydney and Brisbane, urban route numbering system were streamlined in the new Metroad scheme.

That same year, Kusama conceived her floor installation Thousands of Eyes as a commission for the new Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane.

However, David Jones replaced the Myer store in Westfield Burwood in May 2007 and opened a new store at Westfield Chermside in August 2007 and a new store at QueensPlaza, Brisbane in February 2008.