Sheikh's off to Brissie (maybe)

[Sheikh]

Hiya all, the office has put front and centre for a secondment to Brisbane for 6 months (yeah, right!)

Not sure of all (well any) details yet, but I may be pestering Jono for local knowledge.

[jono]

Was 25 & sunny today!

[jargan83]

but I may be pestering Jono for local knowledge.

Brisbane is located within the state of Queensland.

[jono]

Here there's also going to be a decent game of rugby @ Ballymore next Thursday as well

[Alison]

Hiya all, the office has put front and centre for a secondment to Brisbane for 6 months (yeah, right!)

Not sure of all (well any) details yet, but I may be pestering Jono for local knowledge.

You'd better not be forsaking the Force for those 'orrible Reds!!

[jono]

You'd better not be forsaking the Force for those 'orrible Reds!!

But they've got such a great song!

[Sheikh]

You'd better not be forsaking the Force for those 'orrible Reds!!

I'll be sporting my Force colours every time the Reds play!

[beige]

Their main stadium is Suncorp Stadium. Imagine the East Stand if it went all the way around.

[Sheikh]

Their main stadium is Suncorp Stadium. Imagine the East Stand if it went all the way around.

I've been to Brissie on an InnForcers tour - the year we had Dunning as prop and we got beaten badly at Suncorp

[Petalz]

This might be a good start for you

• Brisbane is home to 2 million people and is the third most populous city in Australia
• Queensland is home to more than 4 million people
• It forms part of Australia’s fastest growing metropolitan region - South-East Queensland – with the population expected to double to almost 4 million by 2056
• Brisbane is the third largest capital city by geographic area in the world, occupying some 1,140km²
• It is rapidly emerging as a diverse and energised global city with a $114 billion economy
• Brisbane enjoys a subtropical climate with warm to hot and humid summers averaging 28 degrees and dry and moderately warm winters averaging 23 degrees
• Brisbane residents are young and skilled, highly educated and culturally-diverse
• The largest age demographic is the 24 to 40 year old age group, representing skilled workers
• Brisbane enjoys a large and diverse multicultural community
• Nearly 30 per cent of Brisbane’s population is born overseas
• More than 16 per cent of households speak a language other than English at home
• Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, Samoan and Vietnamese are some of the most commonly spoken languages in Brisbane homes
• Brisbane boasts a world-class international airport managing more than 3,300 flights per week and in excess of 19.7 million passengers per year
• The Port of Brisbane is one of Australia’s fastest-growing container ports and Queensland’s largest general cargo port
• Brisbane is built on a strong foundation of infrastructure with a comprehensive road and rail network and a fully-integrated public transport and ticketing system
• Brisbane is commonly referred to as “Bris-Vegas”
• The Story Bridge is a twin of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, Canada!
• The QLD Parliament building was the first in the British Empire to have electric lights.
• The world’s first cultivated Macadamia tree was planted in Brisbane’s botanical gardens in 1858. It is still standing
• The “sister” of the Liberty Bell (which was rung with the declaration of independence in the USA) is here in Brisbane.
• South Bank was once a coal port, then the site of Expo ’88. Today it is our most popular urban park and home to a beach lagoon the size of five Olympic pools
• Queensland has five of Australia's eleven World Natural Heritage areas. These include the Scenic Rim National Parks, Fraser Island, Riversleigh Fossil Fields, the Wet Tropics (including Daintree National Park), and one of the Wonders of the World—the Great Barrier Reef.

Also Rumour has it that the further you go from Brisbane, the bigger the Aukbra brims & belt buckles get & the slower those backwards Queensland hicks talk!

[brokendown gunfighter]

Also the current home of one Richard Graham

[StimpsonJCat]

Brisbane is the home of the 2nd worst coach in Australian Rugby.

[shasta]

Hiya all, the office has put front and centre for a secondment to Brisbane for 6 months (yeah, right!)

Wow! What did you do to deserve that? Haven't been cutting the boss's grass I hope. The place is full of Queenslanders fercrissakes.

[Sheikh]

It's now definite, I'm heading over tomorrow morning. Jono, any good pubs you can recommend to watch the NRC at on Thursday? I'm staying in the CBD, although alcoholic memory may allow me to get to Caxton Street

[jono]

Just sent you a PM