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Queensland – Standard Time Act 1894 [12] New South Wales – Standard Time Act 1987 [13] Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 [14] Victoria – Summer Time Act 1972 [15] Tasmania – Standard Time Act 1895 [16] and the Daylight Saving Act 2007 [17]
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These jurisdictions changed on 27 August 2000. South Australia did not change until the regular time, which that year was on 29 October. In 2006, all states that followed daylight-saving time (the above listed states plus South Australia) delayed the return to their respective Standard Times by a week, due to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in ...
Tourism is an important part of the Brisbane economy, both in its own right and as a gateway to other areas of Queensland, [171] as is international education, with over 95,000 international students enrolled in universities and other tertiary education institutions in the central City of Brisbane local government area alone in 2018. [172]
Queensland's first railway linked Grandchester to Ipswich, 1865. South East Queensland was home to around 20,000 Aboriginals prior to British occupation. The local tribes of the area were the Yugarapul of the Central Brisbane area; the Yugambeh people whose traditional lands ranged from South of the Logan River, down to the Tweed River and west to the McPherson Ranges; the Quandamooka people ...
Nine News (stylized as 9NEWS) is a 24-hour national news service of the Nine Network in Australia.Its flagship program is the hour-long 9News bulletin at 6 pm, with editions produced by Nine's owned and operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth; [1] regional editions for Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast airs under the name of NBN News and are produced in ...
The motto of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin for We aim for better things. The council's corporate slogan is Dedicated to a better Brisbane. The city's colours are blue and gold. Its corporate logo was introduced in 1982 in preparation for the Commonwealth Games hosted in Brisbane that year. It features a stylised version of ...
The Brisbane Times was launched as part of Fairfax Media on 7 March 2007 [2] by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. [3] The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy . [ 4 ] The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website of News Corporation ...