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BRISBANE has a colourful and often turbulent past but how well do you know your own suburban patch? How a suburb was named provides an insight into the area’s history and what it was like before the days of urban sprawl. Many of Brisbane’s suburbs derive from Aboriginal words, or at least a European corruption of them. Many are named after English place names, reflecting the early settlers’ desire to maintain links with home. Other names are more bizarre, the result of a spelling mistake or something which seemed like a good idea at the time. Scroll down the list of Brisbane suburbs to find out about your suburb’s hidden past from the archives by The Courier-Mail’s Village Green columnist Brian Williams. And if you know something interesting or quirky about your suburb, submit a comment in the box below . A Acacia Ridge:  About 15km south of the CBD, established after World War II to house returning servicemen an...

Lets look at five key reasons to invest in the Brisbane property market. Brisbane is Australia’s third-largest capital city and there’s so much upside potential in this market. 1. Population Growth The number one reason on our list is the population growth that’s expected to happen in Brisbane over the next few years.  The total population in Greater Brisbane was 3.8 million people in 2020 and the forecasts say that we’re going to have roughly 5.44 million people in Brisbane around 2041.  That’s an extra 1.65 million people moving into the greater Brisbane area. All of the greater Brisbane areas are going to benefit from this population growth.  Some of this population growth is going to come from Interstate migration where people are looking for that Sunny Queensland lifestyle change.  We are also expecting a lot of overseas migration to flood into the Brisbane Market as well.  As the bigger markets of Sydney and Me...