The demolition of Brisbane’s Bellevue Hotel before a clear dawn in 1979 shocked Queenslanders. The destruction was the catalyst for change that took 13 years to arrive.
Australian Greens were formedMore than a decade previously, Queensland had been shamed by the shocking, pre-dawn destruction of the graceful Bellevue Hotel on the corner of Alice and George streets in April 1979. ThenAt the end of Wayne Goss’ first term as new Labor premier, his environment minister Pat Comben introduced the Queensland Heritage Act on March 10, 1992 to protect buildings of historical importance.
The midnight demolition of Brisbane’s Bellevue Hotel in 1979 was the catalyst for new heritage building legislation in 1992.“The Queensland Heritage Bill will establish a Heritage Council and set out procedures for the registration of significant cultural heritage sites and regulatory provisions for development work on those sites,” the diocuments read.
Four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn stayed there in 1955 while touring with the Old Vic Theatre Company andThe building was bought by the Queensland government in 1967, scheming to replace it with office space. Today the land where the hotel stood is empty, but will become an open-space Bellevue Plaza beneath one of the apartment blocks of the Queens Wharf development.
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