What is an isn’t Brisbane?


Springfield being absorbed into Brisbane from Ipswich

I mean Caboolture, Logan and Ipswich are literally not part of Brisbane? They’re their own cities right (and I say city loosely)

Redlands seem pretty Brisbane to me, but free tip so brisbane can fuck off 😛

I dunno maybe the council boundaries

The translink bus rates map seems pretty spot on haha just draw a circle

Logan, east of the highway, has come a long way. Springwood, Daisy Hill, and Shailer Park used to be crap, but is now very expensive. Yet not too far to the city given the new southeast busway extension.

For me, Brisbane itself follows strictly the LGA. Northward to the Pine River, Southward to the Logan Motorway, East to just before Capalaba and West to the M2/M7 merge at Wacol.

I have heard Greater Brisbane thrown around though, which is confusing because it extends all the way to Beerburrum, Beenleigh and Rosewood, none of which I really consider the start of Brisbane. Redlands I will give an exception because it’s a tiny LGA tucked away in the corner, technically its own ‘city’ but still only 11km from Brisbane Airport as the crow flies.

Maybe 20 years ago you could argue that Moreton Bay, Logan and Ipswich felt like part of Brisbane’s urban sprawl but all 3 areas have developed their own identity and even separate mini CBDs now (edit – ipswich obviously already had one). If I ask my friends living in North QLD though, all of South East QLD is ‘Brisbane’ in their eyes including the coasts.

Apparently residents of Ferny Hills and Arana Hills (which I always thought was a part of Brisbane) wanted to de-amalgamate from the Moreton Bay Region and join Brisbane City but got knocked back, so now they just kind of exist.

[Check out Illawarra St in Everton Park](https://maps.app.goo.gl/22YdmBHWmMfr1NSQA), one side of the street is in Brisbane City (Everton Park) and the other side is in City of Moreton Bay (Everton Hills). Based off street view they even have different bin days!

How is North Lakes Brisbane and Redcliffe not?

I live in North Lakes and let me tell you it ain’t fucking Brisbane up here

Honestly yes. Idc about your council lines this is spiritually correct

Brisbane is the Greater Brisbane Area, which includes the LGAs of Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Moreton Bay, Redlands. If Brisbane was defined by and limited to only the City of Brisbane LGA, then its population would be 1.2 million – that is fewer people than Perth. Last I checked, Brisbane’s population was greater. Additionally, using this same logic, Sydney would only have a population of 200,000 and anything outside of the City of Sydney LGA would be a separate city. Obviously, nobody follows that logic, as people there can recognise that a city (geographical metropolitan/urban area) and a City Council LGA (political subdivision) are different entities. The “City of” title for councils is what confuses people but it’s just the naming convention.

When you drive past cows you’re not in Brisbane anymore. Excluding the M1.

This is quality content. I live in Logan, Shailer Park, and I wouldn’t blink to tell someone that I live in Brisbane.

I think you’re pretty spot on. I’d cut Wynnum into the orange, if it’s not Redlands it should be. Possibly a good demarcation is some of these major roads visible on your map. So north of the Logan motorway is Brisbane. Bounded by the vegetation on the east as it goes up towards Capalaba.

The way I’ve always thought about it is – if you were travelling overseas and had to answer the “where do you live?” question from a complete stranger, what would you say? Everyone here would say Brisbane, Australia. 

Glad to see this.

I am not from Queensland so I do not claim to have the city pride that some people who lived here all their lives have. As others have said, if you look beyond Brisbane into other capital cities, it just so happens that other LGAs are much smaller. The amalgamation in Queensland just resulted in having some of the largest council areas in the country. I support the idea, though. I think there are many other areas around the country where LGAs can be merged and a larger area works.

But it is that same large area that promotes this concept of different cities. I mean, they are cities by name, but really, we could have called them anything (except I believe there were conditions set on how naming LGAs worked). I am on the side of the fence that Brisbane, as a major city, is defined by the boundaries of Greater Brisbane. Basically, if you were in a different country and someone asked which city you were from, you would say Brisbane, regardless of if you were from Moreton Bay or Logan.

Maybe one day Logan will become dense enough and developed enough that it could break away from Greater Brisbane and stand on its own. I do not know exactly what parameters you need to hit to be considered a self-sufficient city large enough to be on your own, but at that point, Logan will indeed be its own city, possibly with its own LGAs. There might even be a Greater Logan region.

Anyway, back to the matter, I think people in Greater Brisbane are able to live long enough in their LGA to feel like they are separate to the others. I think about how I moved around in other cities and the number of LGAs I would cross to go from home to work really means that each one of them do not believe in that much of an identity.

Point is, everything shaded on this map is Brisbane.

Redcliffe used to be its own Council as Redcliffe City before it got merged into Moreton and so very much culturally if you grew up there you never said you were from Brisbane (despite being in the Greater Brisbane LGA). It’s also feels like a lot of people never really left the bubble, particularly when I was younger.

There used to be a running joke that according to the Courier-mail, if a good news story happens here we’re North Brisbane, if it’s a bad news story we’re North of Brisbane.

I’m not gonna call it SEQ anymore. I feel like ‘Greater Brisbane Area’ neatly labels everywhere from the Tweed River, west to Toowoomba and north to Gympie.

Honestly for myself the way I define ‘Brisbane’ is the entire area from Caboolture to Beenleigh about west to Wacol. Anything west of Wacol is ‘Ipswich’, anything south of Beenleigh is ‘Gold Coast’, and anything north of Caboolture is ‘Sunshine Coast’.

The border where Brisbane ends and the Sunshine Coast starts is somewhere between Elimbah and Beerburrum. If you’re heading north on Beerburrum Road; there is even a sign on the left hand side of the road to mark the boundary. Anything beyond that is a moot point (including the LGA argument)

Elimbah and Arana Hills are part of the same LGA. Good luck telling Arana Hills residents that they don’t live in Brisbane! (Also; good luck telling Arana Hills residents that they are in the same LGA as the Caboolture region!!)

I consider Logan definitively part of Brisbane.

I’m also from Logan and don’t want to say I’m from Logan but that’s completely irrelevant

Adelaide SA is an isnt Brisbane.

Well Northlakes isn’t brisbane, it’s part of the Moreton bay region.

Greater Brisbane is Moreton Bay, BCC, Redlands, Logan and Ipswich

BCC is an anomaly in terms of local governments in metropolitan areas, size and population.