Brisbane in General
Brisbane is Queensland Australia’s capital city. It has a population of 1.6
million people and is Australia’s third largest city after Sydney and Melbourne.
- Population: 1.6 million
- Country: Australia
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC plus 10 hours
- Telephone Area Code 07
Queensland
is Australia’s second largest state, covering 1 722 000 km2 and the third most
populous with more than 3 000 000 inhabitants - 17 per cent of the nation’s
people.
It occupies 22.5 per cent of the continent in the north-east and has boundaries
with New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is bounded
by the Gulf of Carpentaria, Torres Strait and the Coral Sea in the north, and
the South Pacific Ocean in the east. The total coastline is 7400 km.
Brisbane, the capital, is in the south-eastern corner of the State with a
population of 1,627 000.
Cultural diversity
Currently over twenty-six percent of Brisbane’s population was born overseas. In
1996 over fifteen percent of the population spoke a language other than English
at home with Cantonese, Italian, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Greek, Spanish, German,
Tagalog (Filipino), Polish and Russian being some of the most commonly spoken
languages. The average age of Brisbane’s population is thirty-three years and
twenty-one percent of the total population is under the age of fifteen.
Getting There
Brisbane's Eagle Farm airport is a busy international arrival and departure
point with frequent flights to Asia, Europe, the Pacific islands, North America,
New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The main bus terminal is the Transit Centre on
Roma St, and all the main bus companies arrive and leave from here. Buses run to
Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Cairns, as well as towns up and down the coast.
Trains also arrive at the Transit Centre. There are direct trains to Sydney, but
if you want to go any further south or west, you'll have to go via Sydney. Rail
travel within Queensland is slower and more expensive than the bus, but it's
often more comfortable, and you can get rail passes.
Getting Around
A shuttle bus runs between the airport and the Transit Centre about every
half-hour till mid-evening. There are also shuttle buses to the Gold and
Sunshine Coasts. A taxi into the city centre will cost about US$10-15. In
addition to normal city buses, there are Cityxpress services which run between
the city centre and the suburbs, and Rockets (fast peak-hour commuter buses).
The fast Citytrain network has seven lines, and there is an efficient ferry
service along and across the Brisbane River. There is a riverside bicycle track
from the City Botanic Gardens out to the University of Queensland.
Some Facts and Statistics about Brisbane
International and interstate flights come into the Brisbane International
Airport. Archerfield Airodrome to the south and Caboolture to the north cater to
small charter and private flights.
Ferries and BCC Citycats provide transport on the Brisbane River from Newstead
up to the University of Queensland. Ferry and charter cruises are available on
the river and to the Moreton Bay islands.
Cycling is becoming more and more popular with the extensive bikeway network
constructed over the past few years.
A shuttle bus runs between the airport and the Transit Centre about every
half-hour till
mid-evening. There are also shuttle buses to the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. A
taxi into the city
centre will cost about US$10-15. In addition to normal city buses, there are
Cityxpress services
which run between the city centre and the suburbs, and Rockets (fast peak-hour
commuter buses).
The fast Citytrain network has seven lines, and there is an efficient ferry
service along and
across the Brisbane River. There is a riverside bicycle track from the City
Botanic Gardens out
to the University of Queensland.
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