Guide to Brisbane

Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city and the capital of Queensland, Australia’s second largest state. And, currently Brisbane is celebrating its 150th anniversary since it became the capital of the colony of Queensland, a separate colony from New South Wales. This separation occurred in 1859. But, by 2030 the population of Brisbane is expected to rise to over 5 million people with an influx of recently arrived immigrants from the southern states and overseas. This population explosion is boosted by the rising birth rate amongst people born in the area making the capital Brisbane one of the country’s great cultural melting pots of the 21st century.

Although these facts could make one feel overwhelmed if they did not know Brisbane very well, I assure you that you should not feel too alarmed because Brisbane is one of the safest cities in the world where street crime is almost non existent. So, in spite of this burgeoning growth Brisbane still retains much of its small town feel. The small town feel of Brisbane is best exemplified by the quite suburbs that push in all directions out from the inner city core of South Bank, Fortitude Valley, George Street, and the Queen Street Mall that are the centre of economic and social life in the south east corner of the state.