19-453: The North Brisbane Burial Ground was a former cemetery in the Town of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. It was in the area now known as the suburbs of Milton and Paddington . It was also known as North Brisbane Cemetery, Paddington Cemetery and Milton Cemetery. The burial ground was located across four blocks bounded by Beatrice Street on the north, Hale Street on the east, Church Street on
38-507: A key component of Brisbane's sewerage scheme which commended in March 1914. It was serviced by an electric tramway. In 1925, the City of Brisbane was amalgamated with a number of surrounding towns and shires to create the City of Greater Brisbane, now simply known as City of Brisbane . The first Brisbane town hall was used until January 1928, after which the business of the City of Brisbane
57-423: A major traffic route resulted in the resumption of some of the memorial reserve and the remaining headstones were reorganised into an even smaller memorial park behind Christ Church (and are only accessible via the churchyard). The further development of Suncorp Stadium visually encroaches on the memorial park, its high blue glass walls reflecting blue light into the memorial reserve. The North Brisbane burial ground
76-521: A memorial reserve, a small section of the Anglican section of the cemetery, adjacent to Christ Church . In 1914, it was developed as an athletics field called Lang Park and progressively redeveloped into Brisbane's major sporting stadium, Suncorp Stadium . During the Depression many of the headstones in the memorial reserve were removed or destroyed. In 2001, the development of Hale Street into
95-773: A time when the income of the Town was less than £60,000 a year. On 7 January 1888, a separate Town of South Brisbane was created out of the South Ward of the Municipality of Brisbane (together with the Woolloongabba Division ). On 13 January 1903, the Booroodabin Division was abolished and absorbed into the Town of Brisbane. The Local Authorities Act 1902 consolidated local government and established two classes: Towns and Shires, with
114-747: The Liberal National Party was sworn in on 8 April 2019, following the resignation of Graham Quirk . The Lord Mayor serves a four-year term running concurrently with that of the City Council, and is elected by optional preferential voting . As Brisbane is by far the largest local government area in Australia, the Lord Mayor is elected by the largest single-member electorate in the Australia. Like all mayors in Queensland,
133-657: The Liberal Civic Party and the Brisbane Civic Party. The United Party and its successor the Nationalist Citizens Party were created as the vehicle for conservative candidates to campaign against Labor candidates in the newly formed Brisbane City Council, without formally acknowledging their links to the main conservative party of the time. The Nationalist Citizens Party was doomed when the very conservative Civic Reform League
152-481: The Lord Mayor has broad executive powers and additional civic and ceremonial duties. The Lord Mayor is responsible for policy development, implementing policies enacted by the council, leading and controlling the business of council, preparing the budget and directing the chief executive and senior managers. The Lord Mayor also chairs the council's Civic Cabinet and is an ex officio member of all council committees. The Town of Brisbane , established in 1859,
171-580: The North Brisbane Burial Ground opened. The North Brisbane burial ground was in use from 1843 to 1875, during which time up to 10,000 people may have been buried there. After 1875, the burial ground was closed and new burials were to take place in the newly established Toowong Cemetery . Circa 1862 the Anglican Church established a mortuary chapel for the cemetery. The mortuary chapel was demolished in 1891. The cemetery
190-537: The additional provision for Towns to be proclaimed as Cities. Accordingly, Brisbane municipality was proclaimed the City of Brisbane from the date of commencement of the Act, 31 March 1903, and its governing body became the Brisbane City Council. Brisbane's first sewerage treatment plant was officially opened at Luggage Point on 23 November 1923. It was Australia's first full-scale sewerage treatment plant,
209-403: The control or regulation of public infrastructure and utilities, and to the provision of public amenities such as gardens and hospitals. The council was led by a mayor and the role was generally rotated among the aldermen. Thus many mayors served for only one year and some served multiple times some years apart. The council "year" commenced and ended in about February to avoid a change-over during
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#1732787807800228-584: The south and the present-day Castlemain Street on the west. This land is now used as Lang Park stadium and Ithaca Swimming Pool and children's parkland (see plans). The First Brisbane Burial Ground was established in 1825 when Brisbane was established as the Moreton Bay penal colony at present-day Skew Street (near the William Jolly Bridge northern endpoint). It was in use until 1843 when
247-499: The summer holidays, so the mayor for 1890 would, strictly speaking, be the mayor into early 1891. Most of the early aldermen and mayors of the Municipality of Brisbane were prominent local men rather than representatives of political parties. The foundation stone of Brisbane's first town hall in Queen Street was laid on 28 January 1864 by Queensland Governor George Bowen . It was designed by William Coote . It cost £25,000 at
266-624: Was conducted from the new (almost completed) Brisbane City Hall . 27°28′01″S 153°01′16″E / 27.467°S 153.021°E / -27.467; 153.021 List of mayors and lord mayors of Brisbane The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane , the capital of the Australian state of Queensland , and the head of the Brisbane City Council . Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner of
285-488: Was created on 12 December 1930. That saw most of the conservative councillors from the Nationalist Citizens Party, led by Acting Mayor Watson, defect to the Civic Reform League, which failed to win the subsequent elections. The Progress Party was created at the same time and, in the 1931 election, saw only three of its candidates win, including John Greene, who became Lord Mayor as a compromise candidate amongst
304-643: Was flooded during the 1893 Brisbane flood . In 1907, the Ithaca Shire Council began to plan to convert the cemetery, by then an eyesore for the community, into a recreational reserve. However, the council did not control the land, as individual religious denominations continued to have control of their respective burial grounds. By the 1910s, relatives were offered the opportunity to exhume and reinter deceased family members or to relocate their headstone or other monumental masonry. The first removals took place in 1913. Over 500 headstones were removed into
323-584: Was gazetted on 25 May 1859 and proclaimed by the Governor of New South Wales on 7 September 1859. The first local government area in Queensland, Brisbane was the only one incorporated prior to the establishment of Queensland as a separate colony. After the passing of the Municipal Institutions Act 1864 the area could establish a municipal council to administer the district – with powers relating to by-laws, to rating, to borrowings, to
342-610: Was led by a mayor. The City of Brisbane, established in 1903, replaced the Town of Brisbane and was led by a mayor. The new City of Brisbane , established in 1925, replaced the former City of Brisbane and is led by the Lord Mayor . Prior to 1976, conservative councillors stood on a variety of different platforms: the United Party, Nationalist Citizens Party, Civic Reform League, the Citizens' Municipal Organisation ,
361-552: Was not a single cemetery, but rather a collection of cemeteries operated by different religious denominations. [REDACTED] Media related to Paddington cemetery, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons 27°27′52″S 153°00′36″E / 27.4645°S 153.0100°E / -27.4645; 153.0100 Town of Brisbane The Town of Brisbane was a local government area for Brisbane in Queensland , Australia from 1859 to 1903. The Municipality of Brisbane
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