Brisbane Fast Facts

With over 1,100 people moving to South-East Queensland a week, the region remains popular with the country's southern counterparts.

The south-east corner is truly the State's - and indeed one of the nation's - multicultural hubs and the pattern of overseas-born migrants flocking to the south-east corner is in no doubt due to the enviable lifestyle and robust economy.

Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and Australia's third largest city, is the growth powerhouse of the Australian economy, outstripping all other major national centres.

Now with the largest population growth for any Australian capital city, Brisbane is experiencing a fundamental shift in its business landscape.

Recognised as Australia's new world city, Brisbane has a well deserved reputation as Australia's safest, cleanest and greenest capital city.

The City is spread over 2.2 square kilometers and with 1.9 million residents, Brisbane is home to more than one third of Queensland's entire population, and around 570,000 businesses.

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BRISBANE BRAND STORY 

Brisbane. It's the city du jour with its eyes set firmly on future. Positive and forward-thinking, generous and optimistic, Brisbane remains disarmingly unaffected by its successes on the world stage. Both dynamic and down-to-earth, Brisbane has become the city everyone wants to be around.

There are many reasons people and blue-chip global corporations continue to flock to our city. Meticulous planning and a crystal clear vision of where we are heading has enabled Brisbane to embrace rapid growth, ensuring infrastructural needs are met and that nothing will compromise the enviable lifestyle we enjoy. A lifestyle few cities in the world can offer.

Brisbane's cosmopolitan energy and burgeoning commerce happen under impossibly blue skies in a sub-tropical climate that undoubtedly contributes to our sunny disposition and the feeling that here, anything is possible.

It has proven to be the ideal environment not only for fostering economic development, but for nurturing and inspiring creativity. The city's commitment to the arts and culture is well known. We have learnt to express ourselves through our emerging music, we've put the world's best artists and performers on display throughout our galleries and performing arts centres, and we’ve converted our old powerhouse into a hotbed of cutting-edge cultural expression.

Our river hugs the city and we have returned its embrace with gifts that everyone can share. Cultural precincts, leafy parks, cycling and walking tracks line its banks. The Goodwill Bridge links our historic City Botanic Gardens to the vivacious South Bank Arts & Leisure precinct. From the golden Kangaroo Point cliffs, abseilers dangle against a backdrop of sparkling city lights. Here, beauty is not incidental to life, it's essential. Brisbane values the aesthete and gives its musicians, artists and dreamers space to be and encouragement to grow.

At the same time, this youthful, modern city has established an influential foothold in the international community and contributes to leading the world in infrastructure, health, biotechnology, education and architecture. A city unconstrained by its past, Brisbane knows exactly where it wants to be. Clean, green, sustainable, friendly, tolerant, multi-cultural, creative, collaborative, energetic, progressive and liveable.

It's this open-minded, enthusiastic and globally responsible attitude that has enabled Brisbane to maintain a balance between progress and sustainability; between work and play, family and career, urban and green space.

Welcome to a city where you are free to be whoever you want to be, where you can be inspired to pursue your dreams and to find success and joy in every aspect of your life. Welcome to Brisbane, Australia's New World City.

(Article courtesy of Brisbane Marketing)