Brisbane : corridors of power / edited by Barry Shaw.

Brisbane : Brisbane History Group, 1997.

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History -- Queensland.

Public buildings -- History -- Queensland.

Local history -- Queensland.

Queensland -- Politics and government.

Brisbane (Qld.) -- History.

1. Brisbane's first Town Hall: A case of aldermanic bumbling and jobbery / John Laverty

2. Civic temple or tower of Babel: A history of Brisbane's City Hall / John Laverty

3. Brisbane City Hall: History and heritage / Peter Newell

4. The renovation of City Hall / Ron Baker

5. A somewhat rash experiment: Queensland Parliament as a microcosm of society / Lyn Armstrong

6. From penal depot to colonial city: Queensland Houses of Parliament and the Second Empire style / Paul Jolly

7. The planning and design of Old Government House / Paul Jolly

8. The renovation of Parliament House / Ian Charlton

9. Is history repeating itself here in Queensland? / Ross Fitzgerald

210. Queensland Parliament in the 1890s / Peter Beattie

11. The constitutional conventions of the 1890s and the role of Samuel Griffith / Ken Wiltshire

12. The 1890s constitutional debates through the eyes of the Queensland press / Rod Kirkpatrick

13. Feminist issues in Queensland in the 1890s / Kay Saunders

14. William Alfred Jolly: A slave to duty / John Laverty

15. Alfred James Jones: Labor's first lord mayor / Manfred Cross

16. John Beals Chandler: The little man at City Hall / John Laverty

17. J C Slaughter: Brisbane's quintessential town clerk / Doug Tucker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0958646910

1035-4050

vii, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm