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The recorded history of Brisbane dates from 1799, when Matthew Flinders explored Moreton Bay on an expedition from Port Jackson, although the region had long been occupied by the Yugara and Turrbal aboriginal tribes. The town was conceived initially as a penal colony for British convicts sent from Sydney.
Scottish Australians (Scots: Scots Australiens; Scottish Gaelic: Astràilianaich Albannach) are residents of Australia who are fully or partially of Scottish descent. According to the 2021 Australian census, 130,060 Australian residents were born in Scotland , while 2,176,777 claimed Scottish ancestry, either alone or in ...
The Queensland Cultural Centre, located at South Bank, within the suburb of South Brisbane, is the cultural hub of Brisbane.The Queensland Cultural Centre contains the Queensland Museum, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the Australian Cinémathèque, the State Library of Queensland, Queensland Writers Centre, and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
While Anglo-Celtic Australians do not form an official ethnic grouping in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups, due to the long historical dominance and intermixture of Australians with ancestries from the British Isles, it is commonly used as an informal ethnic identifier. [2]
Museum of Brisbane: Brisbane: Brisbane central History: Brisbane's history from the 1820s and culture Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying: Brisbane: Brisbane central Mapping: Historical maps, survey plans and artefacts Newstead House: Newstead: Brisbane Suburbs North Historic house: Late Victorian period house, Brisbane's oldest surviving ...
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of Australia by Scottish emigrants or explorers Main article: Scottish place names in other countries This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
1894 T.P. Lucas's novel Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. 1895 The Gabba set aside as cricket ground. 1895 Queensland Art Gallery established. 1896 Capsize of the ferry Pearl. 1896 Brisbane Public Library (now State Library) established. 1897 Electric trams introduced. 1899 Ministry of Anderson Dawson sworn in, the world's first Labour ...
Brisbane has a number of heritage buildings, some of which date back to the 1820s, including The Old Windmill in Wickham Park, built by convict labour in 1824, [141] which is the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, and the Commissariat Store on William Street, built by convict labour in 1828, which was originally used as a grain house, and ...