Brisbane
About Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, a bio-geographical and urban region with an estimated population of 4.1 million as of 2024. The central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Greater Brisbane sprawls across the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between the Pacific Ocean and the Taylor and D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government areas (LGAs). The City of Brisbane LGA forms the inner area of Greater Brisbane, and is the most populous local government area in Australia. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite.
On the show — 21 mentions total
In 2017, a plane had to make an emergency landing that was flying between Melbourne and Brisbane — it had to make an emergency landing after it hit an eagle and a rabbit at the same time.
from 369: No Such Thing As Quartz For The Courts, 2021-04-16 at 00:50:47 · read transcript
Other times Brisbane came up
What about cricket? Is this possibly the one place where we can ascertain we're going to have a fair cricket match? Why, because there's no Australians there. By the way, guys, our Brisbane date has really not sold so far and we don't know why. Mariam Bartoli might be able to work it out before anyone else, that's what I'm thinking because she's so smart. You're right. She would be able to work out the trajectories and stuff.
218: No Such Thing As Tennis On The Moon, 2018-05-25 · listen
With no atmosphere on the moon, Again, you're not having tops been working, so all of them, Dahl shots go out. What about cricket? Is this possibly the one place where we can ascertain we're going to have a fair cricket match? Because there's no Australians. By the way, guys, our Brisbane date has really not solved so far, and we don't know why. Marianne Bartoli might be able to work it out before anyone else. That's why I'm thinking, because she's so smart. You're right.
No Such Thing As Tennis On The Moon, 2018-05-25 · listen
Although there were so many good suggestions, actually, for the name of Canberra. I think my favourites are things like Buncom and Bung Town are there and gone broke. There was one suggestion was Climax. Could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid Melad Per Briseho, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. They thought they'd combine them all. That's such an interesting idea. Very diplomatic.
No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
Although there were so many good suggestions actually for the name of Cumbra. I think my favourites are things like Bunkham and Bungtown are there and gone broke. One suggestion was Climax. It could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid-Mellad-Per-Brizjo, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart. They thought they'd combined them all. That's such an interesting idea. Very diplomatic.
126: No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
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369: No Such Thing As Quartz For The Courts put 2 places on the map.
- Uppsala University · Sweden
Coordinates: -27.4678, 153.0281