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6 Events

• 1982 Commonwealth Games.
• 1988 Expo 88.
• 1991 International Convention of Lions Clubs International.
• 1995 International Physics Olympiad
• 2001 Goodwill Games
• 2003 International Convention of Rotary International.
• 2003 Hosted matches during Rugby Union World Cup
• 2004 International Biology Olympiad
• 2004 International Youth Physics Tournament

• Annually — the Brisbane Exhibition or "Ekka".

7 Tourism

Sights to see in the city's centre include Southbank Parklands (the site of Expo 88) and the recently developed Roma Street Parklands. There are a lot of shopping boutiques in Fortitude Valley and Queen Street Mall which has good shopping. The CityCat ferry service runs along the Brisbane River from the University of Queensland's Saint Lucia campus to Brett's Wharf at Hamilton, and is an easy way to get from one side of town to the other. Brisbane is also home to:

• Rockclimbing cliffs, parklands and riverside bikeways (suburb: Kangaroo Point)
• Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, which displays many native Australian animals, and where you can have your photo taken with a koala (suburb: Fig Tree Pocket ).
• The brewery of XXXX, one of Australia's most famous beers (suburb: Milton ).
• The Brisbane City Botanical Gardens near the Queensland University of Technology(QUT) at Gardens Point.
• Mount Coot-tha lookout with adjacent Brisbane botanical gardens .
• Other lookouts are situated on the tops of (suburb: Mount Gravatt ) and Mount Petrie.
• The koala parklands in the southeast outskirts where these marsupials can be seen in a natural setting. (suburb: Burbank )
• The recently-refurbished ( 2004) Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium in the Mt Coot-tha botanical gardens.
• Rocks Riverside Parklands , the regions largest park. (suburb: Oxley )
• a number of large sporting venues such as The Gabba and Lang Park stadium.
• a network of bikeways and many public swimming pools.

Brisbane is blessed with many other tourist attractions within a short travelling distance.

8 Entertainment

Brisbane has a thriving performing arts culture, housed in theatres such as La Boite's Roundhouse Theatre in Kelvin Grove, the Optus Playhouse and Lyric theatre at Southbank, the Powerhouse in New Farm, the Brisbane Arts Theatre on Petrie Terrace and the recently opened " Judith Wright Centre" in Fortitude Valley.

Brisbane's CBD, in particular the fashionable Queen Street Mall, has a wide range of restaurants, and shops selling clothes, music and souvenirs.

9 Media

Brisbane is served by six broadcast television stations: ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten, SBS, and community television station Briz 31 .

There are eight commercial radio stations licensed to cover the Brisbane market: 4BC , 4BH , 4TAB , 4KQ , B105 FM, Triple M, NEW 97.3 , and NovaFM . The ABC has all five of its radio networks broadcasting to Brisbane, via 612 ABC , Radio National, Triple J, Newsradio, ABC Classic FM . SBS also broadcasts its national radio network to Brisbane.

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