First elected to parliament in 1998 in Brisbane, he began building his political profile as a vocal opponent of Australia's involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The chants bounced around the ornate auditorium of Brisbane city hall for only 30 seconds or so, before the group joined hands and walked out into the scorching Brisbane sun.
As I met world leaders at the G20 in Brisbane, the problems were plain to see.
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"As I've said consistently and as the opposition has been advised, we are working with our partners who have announced support and a presence within west Africa, including obviously the US and the UK but other European and Asian partners as well, about what arrangements we could put in place if we were minded to send Australian health workers into west Africa," he said in Brisbane on Sunday.
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Only once, in Brisbane in 1928-29, the match in which Donald Bradman made his debut and saw his side defeated by a barely comprehensible 675 runs, has Australia lost as heavily as this in terms of runs.
Culturally, at least, Brisbane stands out for its willingness to play along.
As the Mouldy Lovers' Jonathan Sri told the Brisbane Times: "It's a bit harsh for people to criticise musicians for taking these gigs when musicians don't have economic power".
Kuether told Guardian Australia she was overwhelmed with relief at the news, which came a day before her case was due back in the Brisbane magistrates court.
If the late withdrawals of vice-captain Tom Rockliff (virus) and clever forward Dayne Zorko (personal reasons) were not enough bad omens for Brisbane, it became crystal clear it wasn't going to be their night when the ball struck Darcy Gardiner flush in the temple in the second minute following an errant kick from team-mate Pearce Hanley.
