Australia, Brisbane, 1982

[@jbarnett1386]

@THE BRISBANE CHANNEL on KZbin has done a great video showing what some of these locations look like today, go check him out. ( Australian city's TRANSFORMATION | Brisbane THEN & NOW part III - 40+ years of change).kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWbPeox4ipmNeac

[@StevenParrisWard]

I lived in Brisbane in the early 80s. It was a beautiful small city and very clean with wonderful people. Returned again in 2010 and it was not so great.

[@KoolKman]

At 30secs this photo - next to the Carlton Breweries is the block of land where I was born and raised until I was 7yo, my Grandmother's Boarding house stood here and she planted this poinciana tree back in the late 1940s and we had a house right behind it until 1969 when we moved to St. Lucia. My brother and me use to grab a yellow pages phone book and go over to the Story bridge and make paper planes and throw them into the dock side! sadly they made it into a car park and later cut down this beautiful tree which IMHO was one of the greatest landmarks in Brisbane -Thanks for this photo from me and the Stock (Hughes) family.

[@The_Last_Ninja]

Even though many landmarks remain sadly this version of Australia doesn’t exist anymore. God only knows how much I miss the Australia I grew up in, It seems as if I don’t know this country anymore. Videos like these gives me a change to relive the good times for once we had. Thanks so much for giving us a walk down memory lane. 🙏

[@rjlchristie]

Others recall it as Queensland's golden age of political corruption and a police state. Recollections differ.

[@The_Last_Ninja]

@@rjlchristie Even though what you say may actually be true, it was still QLD. I feel sorry they feel that way…

[@The_Last_Ninja]

@Rodney 1984 Well said mate and stay strong, tomorrow is a new day and there’s still time to turn the ship around 🤞🏻

[@pizzaki582]

@@rjlchristie wanna go down that path?, this was era where stuff got done, infrastructure got built when needed no inquiry then a 8 year environmental planning, now both sides of politic's are engaged with corrupt construction company's union's. brisbane will be a new detriot in a few generations' time with poor housing that are been built right now failing and costing to much to repair in a few year's time. I've seen new housing been built and i would'nt want to go near it with a 10 ft pole. mean while the real money is been made out west.

[@rjlchristie]

@@pizzaki582 "...now both sides of politic's (sic) are engaged with corrupt construction company's (sic) union's (sic) " Are you saying it was better back when only one side and its cronies were engaged in the corruption and reaping profit from same? "brisbane (sic) will be a new detriot (sic) in a few generations' time with ...[blah blah]" Well then, that will the time to make your point, not now when you only rely on your magic crystal ball.

[@misatokitty76]

The grass, trees, and fountains in King George Square are sorely missed. What's there now is an eyesore.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

yes absolutely

[@Project3300andStuff...]

Take me back. Fountains in King George Square so good to see again.

[@cjryan88]

they should bring them back

[@sultanabran1]

my family moved here in 1983 and my parents used to my brother and i to king george square as kids. i remember those fountains vividly.

[@Darkpixies]

Back when nature controlled our land and skies, thank you it was a great flash back to normality.

[@jourdainhiini6548]

This was the year my family moved to Australia. As a child in the 80s, with hindsight being 20/20 Brisbane was the best place to grow up...I have never left. I love our town, in 2022 I fear it has lost its Heart and Soul after watching this.

[@sirloin8745]

Search Love+You+Brisbane

[@Jeansieguy]

Last time I was in Brisbane was 1981. Stayed in the Canberra Hotel (a dry hotel), across the road from the Salvo's People's Palace. We had pie floaters in the milk bar on the corner all of which is gone now. All knocked down by Joh.

[@bringer456]

I currently work in the building where Hotel Canberra used to be I saw the photo looking down Edward St towards Ann St intersection it blows my mind the change

[@vk2ig]

The Dean Brothers ... the National Hotel, Cloudland ...

[@AGTV10]

This was the best years in Brisbane, no stress and no hate just enjoying everyday and having fun. I miss those days. Will never come back unfortunately. 😢

[@cobiegaming]

Definitely no political corruption or police misconduct. Also, there couldn't possibly have been rampant homophobia, racism and sexism?? Impossible! It's probably best for you to realise you're only remembering the good parts. Enjoy the present; we've come so far.

[@J-SH06]

Yeah but what about gays and abbos?

[@vk2ig]

Sadly there was plenty of hate at the time - one just had to know where it lurked. The other response to your comment bears witness to that. :(

[@littlewalter44]

@@J-SH06you got it right✔️

[@forgottenknowledge8917]

Meanwhile, kind Australians were oblivious to this hate you speak of.

[@johnturner1073]

Loved my time in Brisbane in January and February 1981, and the unbelievable hospitality shown by the Titman family. It was the greatest time of my life and I have been forever grateful for their kindness. Always in my thoughts.

[@shootingsportstransparency7461]

Same time and date here grtzz from the Netherlands

[@derekharvey5257]

Thanks for posting, this is the Brisbane of my childhood. It was a time of transition as the riverbank areas started to be transformed into what they’ve become today. And King George Sq was a pleasant place to be!

[@margareth1504]

When I saw the photo of the stairs on King George Square, it made me remember the evening we went out, I was dressed up in my new flares and my new platform shoes, then I tripped up and fell while going down those stairs, but I was completely fine and got right up and kept going 😂

[@jennine211]

Used to work in a little shop at the base of lennons called cut price cosmetics… loved it 🥰 I remember the beautiful girl Marnie who worked outside our shop in a little flower stand 🌻 such simple beautiful times 😉😁👍❤️❤️🧚‍♀️

[@patrickspaceman305]

I lived there at the time. Really miss those days.

[@rocknral]

I grew up in brisy. This was my last year there. This is what i miss when i visit.

[@Slazmoservicing4209]

I was born in 1983 and started my life in Brisbane, it's so beautiful to see these old pictures of this town and how innocent and vibrant it was back then. I rarely drive through Brisbane and I don't hold any love for what it's turned into today. Such a shame to see these vibrant colourful pictures of a town lost to history and rampant change.

[@illegalgovernment]

Was a very civilized city then. Good place to live.

[@johncross5634]

I left school 1982, I remember wagging school that year and going to the cinemas in the city… all gone now

[@vk2ig]

That brought back some memories ... thanks for uploading!

[@noahfenech3369]

I wasn't born for another 2 decades, but it's such a haunting thing to see how much and how little things can change.

[@robm7163]

brings tears to my soul

[@carcaridon]

I was in grade 1 then. Don't even know my own city any more. This vid is great. This is how I remember things. I remember Warana festival and lawns on kangaroo Point. Thanks

[@planetfonz]

Same here Nate but in Redcliffe for me, great time period to do school in.. I was always amazed at how big early 80s brisby seemed on our regular train trips in

[@lonnie224]

I miss the grass in King George Square and The Regent Theatre should never have been touched. Along with some other old buildings that were torn down a few decades ago. Other than that I still think my home town is beautiful. And I love it. Although, I don’t live in the city anymore, being forty minutes away in the outer suburbs suits me fine, because I can go into the city if I want to and seeing the skyline on the drive in, always makes me think, aahh my city 🥰

[@vk2ig]

The Dean Brothers ...

[@ivanf6938]

Lots of things I'd forgotten. But something now extinct and distinctly Oz at 5:51(bottom right). Midnight metallic blue Sandman shaggin wagon with mags and the rear flap door up in the trolling position. So funny. It probably had the "if this van's rockin" sticker on the bumper as well. Different era.

[@stevenallen1611-AV]

1982, I attended West End State School. So many special memories of the Brisbane. King George Square always lighting up with the coloured fountain. I still remember when the AMP building was the tallest building in the city alongside the old MLC building. Go GenX

[@hoozleup]

Ah good memories, lived out at Bracken Ridge about 85-87.

[@vk2ig]

Bracken Ridge: where the only AM radio stations you could get were 4QR, 4QG, then 4QR ... and 4QG ... :)

[@bretth4988]

Born in raised in Brisbane. Stuck in DUMB PERTH atm. There is so much feel to Brisbane. So many memories. What screwed my life up is a few things but one is a dumb medical condition that's crippled me to this day. I just wish I had a chance at a normal life and ALL my years was still in Brisbane/QLD!!!

[@mishti06]

I remember alllll these sites, wow what a great trip down memory lane. Thank you for sharing! Hasn't our city exploded..I barely recognise it these days !

[@kingaroykid]

Thank for posting this wonderful montage of photos. It transports me back in time to the end of my school years and a much simpler time and way of living. The year the 1982 Commonwealth Games came to town - what a wonderful year.

[@TaxEvasi0n]

So this is how dad experienced the city when he was 20.

[@JaapvanderVelde]

It's nice to see so many of these buildings I see every day in the context they were built in, or in a context where they weren't crowded out as much. I was a 7-year old kid in 1982, unaware I'd ever call Brisbane or Australia my home, but I remember the vibe of the 80s and the world in the pictures seems familiar. To all the people saying it was so much better than now: I'm sure you're aware that you're parroting almost everyone in history ever, right? If you truly believe that, give some thought to what happened to the world and this city, who was responsible for that and what they did, and whether your behaviour today isn't doing the same to the world of the future that will have today's kids and young people look back and say "I miss Brisbane in 2023..."

[@strangenameforaband342]

This makes me kind of sad, all those old buildings you don't see anymore. And the sky, remember those deep blue sky's? It was cloudy when it was going to rain, then clear up to a deep blue sky. No this whispy rubbish we have now. Thanks for the video.

[@Boomer19771]

I was thinking the same thing back when Brisbane was a really beautiful city. now it's become a modern city.

[@Jean-g4t]

Yes, I agree with you regarding the sky and weather

[@totalcardiowithboaz8238]

Wow I was dead back then! Dang, all those bridges are so old.

[@janreznak881]

It's enough to make you weep.

[@moviesfilmsandmotionpictur8364]

It's incredible how much has changed and how much hasn't. If you brought someone from the 80s to the present, they'd easily be able to go, "yep, that's my hometown."

[@myspace_forever]

They'd also freak the fuck out at the cost of living

[@minkles1330]

82, I would’ve been 6 years old then and living in The Gap. I remember that was the year the Commonwealth Games came to Brisbane and I asked my dad why there was blue lines painted on the roads in the city. Well done Robert De Castella 👍

[@Norwoodg00ner]

Wow what was the gap like back then?

[@vk2ig]

@@Norwoodg00ner It was very leafy. The Gap-Keperra Road was a nice drive, too.

[@Norwoodg00ner]

@@vk2ig thank you! I love the gap

[@cheeseburgertim1694]

I was 10 then living in Ferny Hills, 10mins away from the Gap

[@digitaldanmartin]

I was 9 and also living in The Gap since 1976. It was a great suburb to live in. It was only half the size as still plenty of farmland which hadn't been converted to residential. No traffic lights until 1985! The '82 games were a big deal. The City was buzzing. Great time to be alive.@@Norwoodg00ner

[@budmcfly3311]

Life was much simpler then people perhaps more naive but overall happiness was distributed more evenly!

[@treeboi5546]

I've lived in Brisbane now for about 12 years, and its crazy seeing how different everything looks after almost half a decade,, its almost unrecognisable, apart from the odd building or two that is still standing after all this time.

[@nifo-otifalelima8346]

The Warana festival and paddy’s market brings back memories 🇦🇺

[@fearnobodyandtrustnoone]

I moved to Brisbane back in 89' from Melbourne and yes I remember paddy’s market; how time flies wish I had a time machine to go back.

[@thetapeloops9522]

The two houses at 3:06 were underneath the Storey Bridge in Kangaroo Point. Next to them on the right you can just see the immigration detention centre and it's barbed wire fence. Me and my friends used to Squat in those houses in 1988 when everyone in Kangaroo Point was evicted prior to massive redevelopment. Crazy place to live. Used to sit on those back steps in the morning and above me some maniac would be hanging under the bridge pop-rivetting.

[@peterfoote5342]

As we crawled along Coronation Drive yesterday afternoon at 4.30 - 4 or 5 cars per light change - heading for the "freeway", I recalled being able to drive in to the city on Saturday morning, park pretty much anywhere and shop - 1975-80 from memory - I do miss those simpler times - but then some of the modern advances have been wonderful so gotta take things as they are I guess (just don't drive anywhere before 9.30am or after 3pm 😆)

[@chriswatson7965]

I think Brisbane was at its peak beauty in 1982. Just the right balance between the old and new, the big and the small, and general uniformity with the occasional oddity. Now it's a mess of overbuilt individualism driven by wealth idolisation. Functionally it is vastly improved, but at the cost of aesthetics and a sense of purpose.

[@collick100]

Expo 88 really put us on the map. It's a beautiful city.

[@sarcasmo57]

It was the monorail. It did the same for Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.

[@KarynaNationArt]

Yes I remember expo 88. I was only 15 years old, a young latina girl, walked in a restaurant with my friend and everyone just stared at me, some called me blacky and few other racist remarks, it really affected me for many years. I left QLD when I was older and married, moved to Brisbane with my husband and kids in 2019 and boy has it changed!! So many latinos, so multicultural it not a dead city with its xenophobic Queenslanders anymore, it is a vibrant city with a lot of culture!! We are loving Brisbane.

[@druckerman247]

@@sarcasmo57 monorail!

[@andyrob3259]

Believe you don’t want to be on the map. You’ve lost more than you gained. For what; just so someone overseas recognised the city’s name?

[@nevillewran4083]

@@KarynaNationArt "Blacky" was one of the less offensive remarks I heard when I lived in Bundaberg 1974-80. Yes, be slightly different in Qld then & be stared at. Harassed. Cat-called from cars. Denied a lease. Denied a job. Singled out at the mall to have your bag searched. Talked down to at the checkout, having your change added up for you. I'm truly sorry you went thru that, it would have been awful. But at least it's changed now. I find Brisbane cheerful & happy. Everyone thanks the bus drivers, the traffic is more polite than Sydney's. What an improvement! Still a stronghold for semi-literate Hansonites, but every year, there's fewer of them. I lived under repressive Bjelke-petersen. Not just dark-complected ppl singled out, it was young people, too. Gays, alternatives, union members. Truly a fascist state. Glad you like the place now.

[@nevillewran4083]

Thank you for putting these photos up. I don't have fond memories of Qld, but appreciate the beautiful pics and the effort you took.

[@vk2ig]

Garfield Barwick ... :)

[@nevillewran4083]

@@vk2ig That sly, slimy, calculating, disingenuous, crooked, one-eyed, improper spiv.

[@chriscantor6852]

I migrated to Brisbane/Australia in 1982. Good place to live but boy was it dead after 6pm. Has changed for the better unlike many places.

[@oscarmedek7744]

Absolutely love this

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

Yeah. The city has changed. No longer the cozy friendly place it used to be. Now like Sydney and Melbourne, big, brassy and cold.

[@ocevicheband502]

82,Got a job on jackhammers, Everton Excavations/jackpick/ Watkins ,Amp ,M.L.C. many others... demolition ...the old mill next to the watchhouse ,blew the windows out of the cop shop when Denivels dynamite the grain silo,hahaha ! You can see my jackhammer cut on the powerhouse at Newstead! The blokes I met along the way .......Space Cadet. KIWI.

[@margareth1504]

Thanks its wonderful to see this collection of pics. I saw Tritons in one of those photos, thats where we got some furniture from long time ago. Still have the dressing table, still like it.

[@56music64]

Hi Margaret, yes I was just 15 years old in my first office job with a meat company in the Valley. I went to Tritons and put a lay-by on a buffet, solid timber (mid century style, wish I still had it!) which was to be used as my glory box, that was what girls did back then, I am sure you remember. The lady at Tritons was so impressed with me she rang my mother and said she hoped her daughter would turn out as well! Also when I got married the first time in 1974, we had a week of "showings" of an evening, where my trousseau was laid out for display. All my girlfriends and my mother's friends came to "inspect". My mother was a beautiful sewer and hand sewer and she had made the whole lot. It was a much much simpler time. Fond memories, particularly of my now deceased grandparents and parents.

[@jamescolindaley]

i also remember being in that church building stone off my nut at that time ,,,,i also remember being completely paranoid coz i had too much at that time don't even think about that stuff now ...

[@MicBain]

40yrs... So much has changed, but it's also surprising how much has stayed the same.

[@A_Eichler]

The swooping flyover riverside highway roads to the Captain Cook bridge next to the CBD look positively 'space age' against the backdrop of the old looking 1982 CBD. Not that 11 year old me would have noticed.

[@carbybirett]

That was such a nice time I wish we could bring it back. I came to Australia from Germany in 1978 and got my citizenship in the town hall in 1982. Lived in a flat in Kedron and drove an XC Falcon 500 station wagon. Now I don't like Brisbane any more.

[@LuckyRufey]

Why don’t you like it anymore ?

[@Jean-g4t]

That's awesome you emigrated here and loved it.

[@robertmallac8398]

The "brown snake" looked a lot cleaner back then.

[@peternavin3188]

wow.. i never got to see brisbane like this, but it is so much more beautiful and green, it also still has a slight "towny" warm vibe with the open areas and older architecture, now its a much colder place

[@vk2ig]

Brisbane is massive these days - unrecognisable almost.

[@ivanf6938]

The old King George Sq actually looks more inviting. Maybe the planned reno they are now talking about should just turn it back to the way it was.

[@pablos.8972]

This was the era of Joh Bjelke-Petersen the Queensland Premier who was one of the most controversial political figures in Australian History.

[@sing904]

Thanks, enjoyed watching it

[@maryfitzgerald4812]

Great place to grow up. King George square had grass and fountains until Newman turned it into a frying pan.

[@bigdog1391]

It’s almost unrecognisable without Stefan’s Needle

[@Richard-ck5zk]

The year I was born, classic!

[@stodgepodge]

Time marches on but one thing that will never change is that older folk will pine for the days of their youth and call it a better age, not realizing that what they really miss is how it felt to be young and unburdened by judgements such as these. I'm sure there were those at the time who felt the same way about an even earlier age.

[@charlesw9875]

Back when Brisbane made sense.

[@56music64]

The year before I met my husband. Both Brisbanites. Some things have changed a lot and others hardly at all. If this was a week day, how quiet was it?! No wonder they used to call Brisbane "a big country town"

[@fortunateson7852]

This would have been before the Gateway bridge was open. The year of the Commonwealth Games. I remember my friends wanted to go to some events (I was in high school at the time) only ticket we could afford was some random cycling event. We ended up going to Chandler complex which involved riding the bus for an hour and changing it about 3 times. We were Northside (Pine Rivers) boys. You could have bought a house for 50k then. My neighbour offered me his Bathurst Monaro for $8500. My God. If I had a time machine I would go back and do things differently.

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

In 1982 you could buy a house in Brisbane area for far less than 50k. I know for a fact that the highest block on Springwood Road, Daisy Hill cost 36K to buy the land and build the house in 1981. My father had car yards back then and actually took homes on trade foe new cars back then in locations ranging from Salisbury to Redcliffe...Those were the days, when homes were for living not a business proposition.

[@vk2ig]

Yes, the Gateway Bridge was still being built in early 1984 - I went for a tour on the northern abutment which had just reached the river bank. The northern pier was up, and they were pouring concrete to form the cantilever arms extending north and south. Fascinating piece of civil engineering: the chief engineer told me that the special concrete mix was designed to harden fast, i.e. in about a week, so that the "traveller" could be moved outwards and the next section poured.

[@Dontblamethemonkey]

Nice to know the brizzy river been brown since before I was born

[@vk2ig]

We used to joke that Castlemaine Perkins at Milton had a sluice gate that they used to divert river water into the vats and fill the bottles of "Brisbane River" (as we called Brisbane Bitter at the time).

[@saeedya8588]

Awesome city.

[@gpm9333]

Back when Brisbane was better

[@connorduke4619]

... and especially mask-less and lockdown-less.

[@jakewalklate6226]

@Jordan Knight Nostalgic for a place that no longer exists

[@Prince077Aussie]

Racists are not liking the change. They are all moving more towards out west 😂

[@KarynaNationArt]

@@Prince077Aussie so true!!

[@bena8121]

@@Prince077Aussie hahaha, like my dad. He moved to Toowoomba about 13 years ago from Brisbane because according to him it was getting too busy. He would be seen as a crocodile Dundee if he walked through Queens street today.

[@roseogrady8785]

Love Brisbane.

[@flixey5107]

Wow

[@jamescolindaley]

i was in hervey bay at this time , but part of this i would have lived in the valley for about six months then took off to perth ...

[@BrisbaneChannel]

Hi. There's some great shots here. It's great that they're all from the same time period. I'd love to use them for my next Brisbane Then & Now video (with full credit, of course). Is this something you'd consider?

[@empiresrikesfat]

Repco hasn't changed

[@margareth1504]

I saw that there. Dont know why.

[@jaidanielparker]

When did the Eagle St riverside get developed? It looks like the disused wharves there in 82, but I know by late 86 when I first visited it was a well developed, bustling hub of eateries.

[@johncross5634]

Yep Australia is a completely different place now. What have they done to our country?

[@iamnoone705]

King George Square 😢

[@denistrethewy7288]

Back in the day when Australia was a free unsegregated society now under present governments those days a long gone.

[@richard7692]

I could throw a football a quarter mile in 82.

[@bena8121]

Okay uncle Reko

[@newsgetsold]

Was a big country town. 👨‍🌾

[@blakeshannon2083]

Love it

[@sectokia1909]

Its crazy how the river side express way was opened in 1968 and has never been widened. You don't see that kind of forward thinking anymore.

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

it has been widened absolutely. the old southbound run out of north quay was a single lane. now there are 4 lanes there between the 2 that come out of hale street end and the 2 that continue down towards turbot street. Back in the 80s you only had the fat left lane that ran from north quay end and the right lane as you came off hale street. Also if you are headed southbound on M2 you exut onto the motorway onto a 4 lane road, never was 4 lanes wide in the 80s either there were 2 lanes.. plus the short slip lane.. at the exit outside the police credit union building...i know there have been other modifications but that one stands out to me..

[@vk2ig]

@@borismcfinnigan3430 Do you remember how there used to be tire marks up on the left hand side wall and guard rail at the exit coming into the city?

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Bring back the water fountain in the river!

[@bena8121]

They still have one.

[@tomroohan]

Everything looks great except what were they thinking building the riverside expressway. Spoiled it.

[@ausi14u]

This is the innocence of Brisbane, before the modern world caught up to us and Campbell Newman turned King George Square into a drab barren concrete wasteland. He and the Liberal Council must be so proud.😞😞😞😞😞

[@curtisfleming7231]

I was born 1982 in South Brisbane

[@LTLT900]

I got my drivers licence in 1982.

[@mrdbooks7285]

The Clips are Great, but the Music is Ok, but way tooo Loud tho.

[@connorduke4619]

@5:40 is this one of the old cultural legacy buildings Sir Joh blew up?

[@JenniferIngrey]

The facade of it is still there. It's on the corner of George and Elizabeth

[@gregwhipps3813]

It’s the Adina hotel now, and it’s not just the facade. It’s beautiful inside.

[@JenniferIngrey]

@@gregwhipps3813 oh that's good to know! I assumed it was the facade because I thought I saw a new building poking out the top of it. But maybe that was a building nearby and I'm getting confused

[@heatherhall3452]

Thank~you for uploading this, how beautiful those simple innocent times were, how blessed we are to have lived them 🙏🏽 ☀️🌈🍃🌸 🌾 I hadn’t been to Brisbane by then, i didn’t move to Brisbane until 2003. In 1982 I was 16 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, but we had the same businesses, cars, and busses - back in the day where police men were dressed to serve the community not looking like their dressed for war against the community serving the corporation - this video made me cry 😢 and long to go back to the way life was back then before the evil cab-al came in the back door to destroy our beautiful nation - and the government sold us out at every turn of government - N W O agenda - my heart is so heavy and sad for the young people of today and the young families just starting out, I wish we didn’t let them down like we have being so layed back & complacent to what was really going on within governments, we could have changed the outcome - who would have thought life would turn out so shit because we were simply going about our lives free and taking that freedom for granted never imagining what these corrupt governments were up to.. ✝️🙏🏽🛐❤️🇦🇺 God help us 🙏🏽😢 I pray enough people are awake to the truth of what’s really going on and not watching the programming MSMedia brain washing & feeding people the lies to carry out this agenda to destroy us, and we can vote 🗳 this government out and reclaim our beautiful nation - ❌Labor ❌Liberal ❌Greens ⬅️ All corrupt Wake 🆙 Australia 🇦🇺 before it’s too late - Make Your VOTE Count to get these free masons OUT once and for all 🔚 💟☮️✝️🙏🏽🇦🇺🛐

[@brissiAU]

Well haven’t we grown up since then 👍

[@lissyniña]

The media has been oddly silent on whatever is going on in Australia now. Here in the US we have not heard anything since the pandemic improved. How are you all doing?

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

Well, we've had enormous floods through Brisbane again. Huge floods in East coast regions all the way down to Sydney really. Most of the Covid restrictions have been lifted after a big Omicron infections peak with relatively low number of deaths and hospitalisations. We've just been sanctioned by Russia, with whom we appear to trade absolutely nothing anyway so there are no immediate plans for panic in the streets.

[@andyrob3259]

Yes and almost together the media went silent. And still the sheep ain’t think they were manipulated and fed stories approved by the government. In a free press the media report different things from different angles. Didn’t happen with Covid just as it’s not happening in the Ukraine - one story may as well be coming from one source.

[@lissyniña]

@@andyrob3259 I was born in Cuba. Know what you mean.

[@serovea333]

millions lost their jobs due the government forcing vaccine mandates on the people heh jk, you won't read about that in the news

[@lissyniña]

@Serovea so sorry 😞

[@LTLT900]

Im to scared to drive in Brisbane in fear of losing my licence for driving sensibly or crashing from looking at my speedo instead of the road due to the money grubbing police.

[@toddjensen8806]

Great pictures but there are so many duplicates in this slide show

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

What's that bridge at 2 minutes? It looks like the narrows bridge in Perth which was built in the 50s

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

That is the Captain Cook Bridge which runs the M2 across the river adjacent to Southbank

[@magicmike2319]

thats the brisbane i know

[@phorton7039]

Not one picture of any trains or train stations.

[@LoverScratch]

I wonder what 1980s ramp kids woulda been like

[@jimw7916]

what music is that?

[@2CanVanDam-w7t]

Where is the bumper to bumper traffic?

[@vk2ig]

That was yet to come, on the SE Freeway a few years later ... especially in that weird spot heading south where the speed limit increased and everyone slowed down.

[@jasonkiigespere1920]

Cool video, but most of the architecture is horrible and to be honest it hasn't improved much.

[@jeffersonthorpe8607]

This was only 40 years ago. You are talking like it was in the 1800s

[@andyrob3259]

For anyone 45 or under it is. 59% of our population is under 45 and will not remember any of this.

[@bena8121]

@@andyrob3259 But what is there to remember? There was no Southbank or Northshore Eat Street markets. There was no eagle street pier and Howard street wharfs. There was no QPAC or convention hall. The Broncos and Lions hadn’t even been founded yet. There were no electric scooters to traverse the city. What was there to do? The only stories I hear about coming from this period of time are pub stories. The pub on this corner and the pub on that corner.

[@vk2ig]

@@bena8121 It was a time when Brisbanites made their own entertainment. But there were places like The National Hotel (where I saw Mondo Rock one night), Cloudland, Festival Hall, just to name a few - you have to have lived there at that time to understand it.

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

Back in the days of the Australia without out all the bullshit and wokes.