The capital and largest city of the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Visit Brisbane during layover
I'm flying with Virgin Australia from Port Moresby to Singapore in 2 days. On the way back I have a layover of 6.30 hours in Brisbane. Will I have time to leave the airport (BNE) and visit the city? I ...
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Can you get to Mooloolaba by public transport from Brisbane, and return, to do an afternoon dive on HMAS Brisbane?
The HMAS Brisbane was scuttled off Mooloolaba in 2005, and is now a well regarded wreck dive and marine reserve. Several dive operators run trips there, and for much of the year they do both morning ...
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Is it possible to visit the Bundaberg Rum Distillery in a day trip from Brisbane, without a car?
Since coming to Queensland, I've tried Bundaberg rum, cooked with Bundaberg sugar, and now I've found out about the possibility to visit the Bundaberg Rum Distillery. Several people have recommended ...
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Can you visit Parliament House in Brisbane? (the Queensland Parliament)
Having discovered that there's wifi in many Brisbane Parks, I walked past Parliament House (the home of the Queensland Parliament) whilst visiting the City Botanical Gardens. It looked quite ...
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Is free wifi easy to find in the centre of Brisbane?
While in Sydney, I noticed that free wifi wasn't that common. Some places did have it, a few others had an anonymous named wifi that you could get the password for if you knew to ask, and quite a few ...
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When visiting Brisbane, how can you work out if you should get a GoCard, or the new SEEQ one?
The last time I was in Brisbane, the standing advice was to get a GoCard to use on Buses / Trains / Ferries, as it was quick to get and the savings over paper tickets quickly made it worth while. You ...
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Is there anywhere at/near Casino station where you can buy food, when changing between the CountryLink bus and train?
If you take the daytime CountryLink train from Sydney to Brisbane, it somewhat annoyingly turns into a pumpkin at Casino.... At Casino, you have to change to a bus to continue your journey onwards to ...
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Places to stop off along the Sydney to Brisbane railway?
I'm hoping this is a constrained enough question to not produce either long lists, or lots of subjective answers, so here goes...
In December I'm going to want to get from Sydney to Brisbane. I won't ...
