| City of Brisbane Queensland |
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Map of Brisbane City in South East Queensland |
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| Population: | 1,067,279(2010)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density: | 769.9/km² (1,994.0/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 1367 km² (527.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Lord Mayor: | Graham Quirk | ||||||||||||
| Council Seat: | Brisbane CBD (City Hall) | ||||||||||||
| Region: | South East Queensland | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Algester, Ashgrove, Aspley, Brisbane Central, Bulimba, Chatsworth, Clayfield, Everton, Ferny Grove, Greenslopes, Inala, Indooroopilly, Lytton, Mansfield, Moggill, Mount Coot-tha, Mount Ommaney, Nudgee, Sandgate, South Brisbane, Stafford, Stretton, Sunnybank, Yeerongpilly | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Brisbane, Bonner, Griffith, Lilley, Moreton, Oxley, Petrie, Ryan | ||||||||||||
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The City of Brisbane is the Local Government Area (LGA) that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Unlike LGAs in the other mainland state capitals (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide), which are generally responsible only for the relatively small Central Business Districts and closest-in neighbourhoods of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane metropolitan area. As such, it has a larger population than any other Local Government Area in Australia. The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more the one million.[2] The population of the LGA is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory combined. The Council administers a budget of over A$3 billion.[3]
The Local Government Area is the combination of the local cities, towns and shires that merged together in 1925. The main offices and Central Library for the Council are at 266 George Street, also known as Brisbane Square. The Brisbane City Hall houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane.
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The Queensland state government created the City of Brisbane with a view to uniting the then Brisbane metropolitan area under one planning and governance structure. The City of Brisbane Act 1924 received assent from the Governor on 30 October 1924. On 1 October 1925, 20 local government areas of various sizes were abolished and merged into the new city,[4] namely:
The Council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the Brisbane Tramways Trust.
The City of Brisbane is governed by the Brisbane City Council, the largest local council in Australia. The Brisbane City Council has its power divided between a powerful executive Lord Mayor, a parliamentary-style council of twenty-six councillors representing single-member wards of approximately 23,000 voters, and a Civic Cabinet comprising the Lord Mayor and the chairpersons of the seven standing committees drawn from the membership of Council. The Lord Mayor is the person elected by the largest single electorate in Australia. The seven standing committees of Council are:
The council also owns three business units which are city-owned enterprises managed on commercial lines:
Following Local Government elections on 15 March 2008, 10 councillors are members of the Australian Labor Party while 16 councillors and the Lord Mayor are from the Liberal National Party. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Graham Quirk, who replaced civil engineer Campbell Newman in April 2011, when he resigned to enter Queensland State Politics. Graham Quirk belongs to the Liberal National Party. The current Deputy Mayor is Adrian Schrinner. The day-to-day management of Council's operations is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer who is currently Colin Jensen.
Elections are held every four years with ballots for the Lord Mayoralty and the individual councillors being held simultaneously. Voting is compulsory for all eligible electors. The election in March 2004 resulted in the unusual situation of a Liberal Lord Mayor co-existing with a Labor majority on Council, resulting in remarkably few conflicts over civic budgets and Council policy. The most recent election in March 2008 saw a swing of 5.5% to the Liberal National Party on the councillor votes, resulting in a Liberal majority on Council with a Liberal Lord Mayor (Lord Mayor Campbell Newman won re-election with 60% of the primary vote).
The Brisbane City Council is incorporated under the City of Brisbane Act 1924, while other local governments in Queensland are governed by the Local Government Act 1993.
Council meetings are held at Level 5, 157 Ann St, Brisbane City[5] every Tuesday at 2pm except during recess and holiday periods. This temporary venue is in use due to the restoration work being performed on the traditional venue Brisbane City Hall.[6] Meetings are generally open to the public.
Brisbane City Council aims to be carbon neutral by 2026 via the reduction of emissions and carbon offsetting.[7]
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 Brisbane's City Hall which opened in 1930. The city's floral emblem is the (exotic) poinsettia and its faunal emblem is the Graceful Tree Frog.
As of 20 June 2011, the twenty-six wards, their councillors and their party affiliations are:[8]
| Ward | Party | Councillor | |
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| Bracken Ridge | LNP | Amanda Cooper | |
| Central | Labor | David Hinchliffe | |
| Chandler | LNP | Adrian Schrinner | |
| Deagon | Labor | Victoria Newton | |
| Doboy | Labor | John Campbell | |
| Enoggera | LNP | Andrew Wines | |
| Hamilton | LNP | David McLachlan | |
| Holland Park | LNP | Ian McKenzie | |
| Jamboree | LNP | Matthew Bourke | |
| Karawatha | Labor | Gail MacPherson | |
| MacGregor | LNP | Steven Huang | |
| Marchant | LNP | Fiona King | |
| McDowall | LNP | Norm Wyndham | |
| Moorooka | Labor | Steve Griffiths | |
| Morningside | Labor | Shayne Sutton | |
| Northgate | Labor | Kim Flesser | |
| Parkinson | LNP | Angela Owen-Taylor | |
| Pullenvale | LNP | Margaret de Wit | |
| Richlands | Labor | Milton Dick | |
| Tennyson | LNP/Independent | Nicole Johnston | |
| The Gabba | Labor | Helen Abrahams | |
| The Gap | LNP | Geraldine Knapp | |
| Toowong | LNP | Peter Matic | |
| Walter Taylor | LNP | Julian Simmonds | |
| Wishart | LNP | Krista Adams | |
| Wynnum Manly | Labor | Peter Cumming | |
The City of Brisbane has seven sister cities.[9] They are:
^1 Direct-controlled municipality of the People's Republic of China
In 1995, Brisbane City Council officially severed all ties with its sister city, Nice, France, in protest against the Chirac government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.[10] Brisbane does not have any sister city relationship with any North American, South American, African or European city.[11]
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