Do you strictly interpret ‘Brisbane’ as the BCC area, or will you tell people you live ‘in Brisbane’ when you’re just shy shy of Caloundra, Ipswich, or Toowoomba? I will always call Redcliffe, ‘Brisbane’, even though it was established long before Brisbane, but exclude Ipswich, but I don’t have any good reason for either.
Journos use ‘near Brisbane’ for up to 200km from King George Square, and ‘events in Brisbane’ frequently have listings for the Gold Coast.
Is Brisbane just a state of mind? :)
Why? I live closer to Sydney than Townsville. I live closer to Melbourne than Cairns. While those places are still in my state they may as well not be.
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Are you suggesting that people from Sydney or Melbourne don’t care about what someone from FNQ is doing to the GBR?
Realistically I have more in common with a resident of Sydney than Cairns.
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This is true, and I can understand why some in NQ would rather the state be split.
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