Brisbane history

This book is the first to be dedicated to a study of the reception of a major European composer in Australia. Each of the eleven essays explores how J.S. Bach's music has enriched Australian cultural life, from private performances in the early nineteenth century to historically informed realisations in recent years. The authors outline the challenges of mounting and sustaining this repertoire in the face of underdeveloped musical infrastructure and limited resources, and how these challenges have been overcome with determination and insight. Championed by imaginative individuals such as Ernest Wood and Leonard Fullard in Melbourne, E.H. Davies in Adelaide and W. Arundel Orchard in Sydney, Bach's music has been a vehicle for the realisation of Australians' cultural aspirations and a means of maintaining connections with traditions that continue to be cherished today.

An illustrated booklet on Judy Watson's evocative artwork along the path beside Kingsford Smith Drive: the key artery of transport between Brisbane's port and Airport and the CBD.  This booklet includes numerous women's biographies by Professor Kay Saunders, Gaja Kerry Charlton and other writers, and a historical essay by Ray Kerkhove about the Indigenous history of the area.

Buch, Kerkhove and Macklin examine the convoluted history of place-naming in the Annerley-Stephens region (southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland). They show that in Brisbane during the 1890s-1920s there were heated disputes and feuds over the meaning and importance of various place names. They suggest place-naming was a process that involved many residents and authorities, and that although the origin of some place names are still obscure, they can be traced back much further than is usually assumed - in many cases to the original Indigenous names for specific areas.

Abstract
Brisbane is Australia’s third largest city,
and capital of the state of Queensland. It has a
sprawling urban footprint and impending connections
to neighbouring metropolises, said to create a ‘200 km
city’. The governing body of Brisbane controls the
largest municipality in Australia, with unrivalled
opportunity to influence both urban planning and
marketing for the CBD and suburbs. Brisbane is home
to over one million people, and its population has
grown rapidly over the past decades, doubling in the
past 40 years. Brisbane represents the quintessential
city with an emerging quest for urbanity, both in brand
and physical form. The relationships between the
city’s urban planning and its branding is not well
examined, despite clear entanglement between these
two strategies. We use a case-study analysis of both
Brisbane City (which is glossed as the Central
Business District) and an outer-suburban area, Inala,
to interrogate how urban identities and brand are being
constructed in relation to their social settings and
governance, with particular reference to the impor-
tance of city branding and its relationship to planning
strategies. The manifestation of branding and rela-
tionship to place qualities at the core and on the
periphery of Brisbane are examined, with relevance
for other rapidly growing, ambitious cities. The focus
of Brisbane’s push for urbanity is on the city centre,
and is not representative of the typical suburban
condition, nor of many cities dominated by suburban
forms. An analysis of place brand, planning strategies
and resident’s responses to place, from planning,
architectural and anthropological perspectives are
offered, as an alternative reading of place brand from
the marketing dominated approach usually favoured in
branding analysis. We make recommendations to
incorporate a more complete version of place in the
construction of a ‘‘genuine’’ urbanity. We argue that
the recognition of resident-centred place identity in
place branding will produce more socially sustainable
places, as well as more authentic city brands.

This heritage trail was composed to commemorate the 150th anniversary (1857-2007) of the arrival in Brisbane
of Pastor Carl Schirmeister (first registered Lutheran minister in Queensland) and Mrs. Alwine Schirmeister née Gehricke (first evangelical Lutheran deaconess in Australia).

Since writing this, I have discovered that it is  doubtful, that Schirmeister studied at Halle University (he may have dropped out) or that he was a minister of the Prussian Union Church.

Legends are part of Australian folklore — the bush, adventure and a heroic ability to take a risk are all key elements of the stories elevated from a factual base that define our popular culture. Ask people in Southeast Queensland about the 1893 flood and many will tell you the ‘legend of Billy Mateer’. It is the story of stockman, Billy Mateer, who rode a horse over swollen rivers for Henry Plantagenet Somerset to warn Brisbane of approaching flood. Mentioned at a Commission of Inquiry in 1927 and in newspaper articles, the legendary or mythical status remained unresolved. In September 2016 Brisbane City Council Archivist, Annabel Lloyd uncovered a single file that revealed new evidence. In unpacking and exploring the back story of a single archive file, we offer an insight into the intersection of archival and historical practice. The status of the legend was confirmed — a classic story of heroism against the elements.

Modern urban planning is intricately linked to public health concerns, with early 20th century planners segregating land uses and regulating development to help improve public health. Over time this segregation created sprawling cities, now associated with poor health outcomes. This research explores how 'ideas, interests and institutions' (the 3I's) related to public health and planning have interacted in the planning of our cities. Using Brisbane, Australia, as a case study, we explore influences in public health and urban planning to better understand how their interaction influenced local government institutions and the development of Brisbane's urban form.

A public forum that explores how the image of the Queensland House was transformed by new social and cultural uses and became a stage for public life and the
making of new identities. The forum explores the entanglements of architecture, political activism, student living and the Arts under the Bejlke-Petersen Government in Brisbane  from 1975-1989. The panel includes Jeanelle Hurst (artist) Anne Jones (Architecture student and editor of Cane Toad Times ) Alan Reilly  (musician and architect) John Willsteed (musician), Ursula Collie (artist) and Vicki Gordon (Musician, feminist and women's activist).