Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland between 24 March 2012 and 31 January 2015. He was LNP Leader from 2 April 2011 to 7 February 2015;Newman previously served as the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 27 March 2004 to 3 April 2011.
James Gerard Soorley is an Australian lobbyist and former politician. He served as Labor Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1991 to 2003. A laicised Catholic priest,Soorley has a Bachelor of Arts,majoring in psychology,from Macquarie University,and a Master of Arts in organisational psychology from Loyola University Chicago.
The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane,the capital of the Australian state of Queensland,and the head of the Brisbane City Council. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner of the Liberal National Party was sworn in on 8 April 2019,following the resignation of Graham Quirk.
Zbygnew Wilczek,or Zbigniew Marian Wilczek,also known as Ziggy the Bag Man,is a man who lives in a park in the inner Brisbane suburb of Taringa. Ziggy objects to being labelled as "homeless" as he chose his situation and does not ask for food,money or clothing and enjoys living in a public park. Ziggy gained press coverage in 2004,becoming a controversial issue in two consecutive local elections.
TransApex was a road transport plan devised by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman in the early 2000s to connect existing motorways and major arterial roads with new transport links and divert cross-city traffic out of the Brisbane central business district. The plan is currently being delivered by Brisbane City Council at an estimated total cost of over $10 billion across five stages. According to the Brisbane City Council website,TransApex is "the biggest urban road project proposed in Australia".
Sallyanne Atkinson,née Kerr AO,was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland,Australia. She is the only woman to have held the position. As of 2017,she was Chairman of the Museum of Brisbane,President of the Council of The Women's College at the University of Queensland and chair of the advisory board of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland.
Honours won by the Brisbane Broncos include six National Rugby League Premierships and two World Club Challenge titles. In addition the club and its players have won several more honours and awards since the Broncos were founded in 1988.
Peter Lawlor is a former Labor Member for Southport in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He served as Queensland Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading. Prior to his term in state parliament he previously served as a councillor on the Gold Coast City Council.
Vincent Patrick Lester is an Australian politician. He was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1974 to 2004,representing in succession the electorates of Belyando,Peak Downs and then Keppel. He served as a minister in several National Party governments throughout his career,having first been promoted in 1983 as part of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's cabinet.
Archibald Watson was briefly the Lord Mayor of Brisbane in 1931. Watson had previously been Mayor of Toowong before the 1925 merger of the Brisbane councils.
John William Greene was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1931 to 1934.
Alfred James Jones was an Australian politician who served as a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly,a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council and as Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
Frank Edwards Roberts was an Australian politician. He was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1952 to 1955,and was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956,representing the electorate of Nundah. As with his predecessor as Mayor,John Beals Chandler,he was simultaneously Lord Mayor and a state MP. He represented Labor from 1947 to 1953 before resigning from the party;he was defeated for re-election as an independent for Lord Mayor in 1955 and as an MP in 1956.
Adrian Jurgen Schrinner became the 17th Lord Mayor of Brisbane on 8 April 2019.
Mark Craig Bailey is an Australian politician currently serving as the Minister for Transport and Main Roads of Queensland. He has also served as the Labor member for Miller in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2015.
The Queensland Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division),was the Queensland division of the Liberal Party of Australia until 2008.
The Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO),known before its expansion as the Citizens' Municipal Party (CMP),was an Australian political organisation that ran in local elections in the City of Brisbane.
Brisbane City Council (BCC) is the democratic executive local government authority for the City of Brisbane,the capital city of the state of Queensland,Australia. The largest City Council in Australia by population and area,BCC's jurisdiction includes 26 wards and 27 elected councillors covering 1,338 km2 (517 sq mi). BCC is overseen by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane,Adrian Schrinner,and the Council of Brisbane and the Civic Cabinet. The council's CEO is Colin Jensen,supported by EO Ainsley Gold.
The next Brisbane City Council elections are set to be held on Saturday,16 March 2024 to elect councillors representing each of the local government area's 26 wards,along with the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The current Lord Mayor,former Deputy Adrian Schrinner,has served since 8 April 2019,having succeeded Graham Quirk. Brisbane City Council elections are significant in the scope of Australian local government politics,as the council is the largest in the country by population,area and managing budget.
