Brisbane doesn't have a beach per se, so they built this thing. It's a palm-fringed inner-city swimming beach along a lagoon with a picnic area, bang in the middle of South Bank Parklands.

This was published 9 years ago. Crowds beat the heat at Brisbane's beach by the river 7 Images South Bank's Streets Beach pulled a crowd as temperatures soared in Brisbane on Saturday.

ONE of Brisbane’s oldest shopping strips will undergo a two-year makeover inspired by Sydney’s The Rocks, in a last-ditch effort to rescue it from abandoned shops and online retailers.

Brisbane CBD inundated, streets closed after major water leak. ... By 6pm the flow of water had slowed, but rocks had been strewn across the street. The torrents of water confused people in the city.