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"Captain Burke Park is a scenic location positioned under the Storey Bridge with an impressive view of the city across the Brisbane River ... "

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"On 13 July 1978 the Lord Mayor, Alderman Sleeman, opened the new park under the Story Bridge and named it Captain Burke Park in honour of John Burke. The young John Burke was a seaman who crewed on the immigrant ship Erin-go-Bragh which arrived in Brisbane in 1862."

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"IT’S an idyllic coastal scene – a little boat lying on a sandy beach, driftwood, a pier and a few straggling mangroves.The only thing is it’s not beside the sea but beside the river right under Story Bridge and smack bang in the middle of Brisbane ... "

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"A meandering stream has a single channel that winds snakelike through its valley, so that the distance 'as the stream flows' is greater than 'as the crow flies.' As water flows around these curves, the outer edge of water is moving faster than the inner. This creates an erosional surface on the outer edge (a cut bank) and a depositional surface on the inner edge (a point bar) ... "

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"Meandering Rivers are located on flat terrain that reduces the flow speed of water, allowing the river to curve or "meander". The bends in the river will migrate back and forth within the river valley. There is a differentiation in flow speeds within a meandering river channel that produces areas of erosion and deposition ... "

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"The Moreton Bay region has approximately 20,000 hectares of intertidal communities, mostly mangroves and saltmarsh ... "

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"Mangroves are often portrayed as having little value and being little more than muddy, mosquito infested swamps that need to be cleared. In the past their removal was seen as a sign of progress. Vast tracts of mangroves across the world have been destroyed as they were perceived as useless. But nothing could be further from the truth ... "

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"Aboriginal people lived in and around Brisbane and Moreton Bay for at least 22,000 years. The population was somewhere between 5,000 and 12,000, of which perhaps 700 to 1,000 regularly resided in what we now call the southern suburbs of Brisbane..."

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"The Turrbal Nation of Aboriginal people have inhabited the shores of the Brisbane River for up to 40,000 years ... "

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"The Turrbal people have been the custodians of the Brisbane area for many thousands of years ... "

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"Australia's First Peoples, including the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples, lived in the area of Meanjin, the Brisbane area and surrounds, where there were fresh rivers and creeks and rich resources, including timber, flora and fauna ... "

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"This essay details Aboriginal sites known to have existed during the historic (post-contact) period within the southside Brisbane area (as defined from Bulimba west to Chelmer, and Sunnybank north to South Brisbane). Archaeological (pre-contact) sites are of course much more numerous."

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"People are in their landscape and exploit landscapes. In other words, we have a highly personal relationship to a landscape, but with our needs for survival we also take from the land, subsequently we are creating a landscape. To start, let’s diverge off the Queensland path for a moment and ponder two important words: exploit and landscape ... "

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"The South Central region is the history of major southern pathways to and from the Centre, whether the centre be the pre-invasive or pre-European settled Aboriginal communities in York Hollow and into the Garden Point Peninsula, the Convict Brisbane River settlement, the Brisbane Township or the modern City ... "

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"On 13th January 2011 major flooding occurred throughout most of the Brisbane River catchment, most severely in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Creek catchment (where 23 people drowned), the Bremer River catchment and in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland ... "

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"Brisbane City Council is building new green bridges across Brisbane which will make it even easier to get around our city on foot, by bike or scooter, or by connecting with public transport ... "

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"Brisbane City Council currently operates a fleet of 24 CityCats and five KittyCats. A network of 21 terminals stretches from The University of Queensland (UQ) St Lucia to Northshore Hamilton."

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"As a rapidly densifying area in close proximity to the Brisbane CBD with water management issues, the Norman Creek Catchment is a valuable and important area of study ... "

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"To effectively manage a catchment it is important to have a collective understanding of how the catchment works. This map journal gathers information from experts and other data sources to provide that understanding ..."

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This "is a copy of the submission ... made last year to Brisbane City Council on the Kangaroo Point Peninsula Draft Urban Renewal Strategy ... "

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"Brisbane City Council monitors the quality of the waterways in Brisbane to ensure the public is not exposed to unnecessary health risks. By providing the public with water quality results and information, residents can make informed decisions about where, when and how they can use the waterway ... "

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"Living with flooding is a part of life in the Brisbane River Catchment. While we can’t prevent flooding from occurring, we can take steps to strengthen our resilience to floods ... "