Category: People
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Corruption in the ‘Moonlight State’
Like many small towns grown large, by the 1980s Brisbane had become corrupt. Small towns do not start out corrupt, they just grow into it. What starts out as the necessity of looking out for each other and a rather less attractive distrust of strangers eventually becomes much more sinister.…
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Captain Patrick Logan: haunted by ghosts of the Peninsula Campaign?
Seldom has a man who achieved so much been so vilified as Captain Patrick Logan, the second commandant of the penal colony at Moreton Bay, and some say the founder of Queensland. And that vilification is not the result of applying 21st Century sensibilities to events 200 years old. Logan…
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The First People of Brisbane
You do not see many Aborigines in Brisbane. They are around of course. Official figures show there are over 53,000 in southeast Queensland, about 1.2% of the City’s total population. There was a whopping 22% increase in the number of indigenous people in Greater Brisbane between 2006 and 2011, over…
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Geoffrey Rush: trailblazing late bloomer
Is Geoffrey Rush Brisbane’s greatest living actor? If he is not I await nominations of who might eclipse him. He burst onto the international scene at the advanced age for an actor of 45 with the film Shine, in which he played the brilliant but troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott.…
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‘The Father of modern Queensland’
We should adopt a new calendar in Queensland: this year should be designated 27 AG. The year 1964, for instance, should be 16 BG. That’d be After Goss and Before Goss. Wayne Keith Goss, Premier of Queensland from December 1989 to February 1996, transformed the place, dragging it out of…
