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The port of Brisbane, its people, and its personalities
Brisbane has always been a port city. From its earliest days, it has relied for its very existence on its trade with the outside world. Initially, ships were able to berth at wharves began their steady march towards the mouth of the Brisbane River.
As the 20th century progressed, it became clear that the port itself had to be relocated, a process that began in 1974 with the submission to parlement of a strategic plan and which became a reality with the official opening of the fisherman Island site in 1980
Since then the size of the port at Fisherman Island has steadily increased so that, today the port of Brisbane is one of Australia's leading ports, its strategic and economic importance critical to the economy of south East Queensland.
But when the port moved downstream to the river mouth, it took with it a way of life for so many of the personalities associated with wharves and ships and shipping. In doing so, it changed the very fibre of life in Brisbane
This book record the old port of Brisbanne, and the change to the new.
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