page_title: City of Brisbane
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: City of Brisbane / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Brisbane City Hall, Adelaide Street, Brisbane.
context_page_description: The City of Brisbane is a local government area over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Respectively, the Brisbane City Council has jurisdiction over that area as the local government. Brisbane is located in the county of Stanley and is the largest city followed by Ipswich with bounds in part of the county. Unlike LGAs in the other mainland state capitals, which are generally responsible only for the central business districts and inner neighbourhoods of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane metropolitan area, serving almost half of the population of the Brisbane Greater Capital City Statistical Area. As such, it has a larger population than any other local government area in Australia. The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more than one million. Its population is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory combined. In 2016–2017, the council administers a budget of over $3 billion, by far the largest budget of any LGA in Australia.
context_section_description: The Government of Queensland created the City of Brisbane with a view to uniting the then Brisbane metropolitan area under a single planning and governance structure. The City of Brisbane Act 1924 received assent from the Governor on 30 October 1924. On 1 October 1925, 20 local government areas of various sizes were abolished and merged into the new city, namely:
  Cities:
  Brisbane
  South Brisbane
  Towns:
  Hamilton
  Ithaca
  Sandgate
  Toowong
  Windsor
  Wynnum
  Shires:
  Balmoral
  Belmont
  Coorparoo
  Enoggera
  Kedron
  Moggill
  Sherwood
  Stephens
  Taringa
  Tingalpa
  Toombul
  Yeerongpilly
  The Council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as the Brisbane Tramways Trust.
caption: Brisbane City Hall in the 1930s
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