Sources: News.com.au
Restrictions are increased in Queensland after an increase in locally-acquired COVID-19 cases, resulting in 25% of ticket-holders for the NRL Grand Final in Brisbane receiving cancellations. 2021-09-30
Brisbane and surrounding towns enter a lockdown after an increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases linked to the ongoing cluster in New South Wales. 2021-07-31
Perth, Brisbane and their respective surrounding towns enter lockdown as coronavirus spreads from the Sydney cluster. People will only be allowed to leave home for essential work or study, medical or compassionate reasons, essential shopping, or outdoor exercise (with restrictions), and masks must be worn outdoors. 2021-06-29
Australia reports its first local COVID-19 cases in two weeks, when a doctor in Brisbane tests positive. 2021-03-13
Solomon Islands bans all travelers from China, South Korea and Japan. Health minister Dickson Mua also says that the country has suspended flights to Brisbane, Australia, and banned all civil servants from overseas travel in an effort to contain COVID-19. 2020-03-14
An elderly woman dies of suffocation while leaving a Brisbane, Queensland-originated Qantas plane at Canberra Airport. Canberra's air quality had been reported as the worst in the world because of heavy smoke from the bushfires in New South Wales. 2020-01-2
Australian police mount raids in the cities of Sydney and Brisbane on alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sympathisers based on intelligence claims that they were planning a public execution in Australia with fifteen people arrested. 2014-09-18
Former Kenyan presidential candidate Quincy Timberlake is charged with murder in the Australian city of Brisbane. 2014-09-2
2013 Brisbane train crash: A train overshoots the end of the tracks and crashes into a railway station's ladies' bathroom in Brisbane, Australia, leaving 14 people injured. 2013-01-31
Heavy rain caused by former Tropical Cyclone Oswald continues to cause significant flooding in the Australian state of Queensland with the capital Brisbane amongst those affected. 2013-01-27