It’s Hot in Brisbane but it’s Coolangatta was recorded in 1953 by singer Gwen Ryan, accompanied by Claude Carnell’s Orchestra with Doug Roughton’s Hokey Pokey Club on vocals as well.

Bundaberg-born Herbert John Louis Hinkler (1892–1933), better known as Bert Hinkler, piloted the very first solo flight between England and Australia in just over 15 days using Avro Avian G-EBOV.

Brisbane only had 600,000 inhabitants. How many of them smoked their pipes on the tram?

Poster for the Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, held in May 1969 at the Astor Theatre.

Is Canberra calling to you? And why is it hot in Brisbane but Coolangatta?

This actuality footage from 1899 shows the unloading of timber spars from the SS Katoomba at a busy wharf in Brisbane.

A portrait of the sub-tropical city of Brisbane, Queensland in the mid 1950s.

The city of Brisbane, Queensland as seen through the eyes of European migrants in 1975.

Produced by the Department of Labor and Immigration. Part of the NFSA’s Film Australia Collection.

A look inside an early childcare centre located in Brisbane in the late 1940s.