The $3.6 billion integrated casino, resort and shopping complex stretches down to the river but does not mark the site where the British penal colony was founded in 1825.
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane has been heralded as the future of city tourism but will not acknowledge its history as the birthplace of the colony.
The Landing at the river frontage of Queen’s Wharf Brisbane will make no to the original 1825 penal colony.as reason for naming the precinct, which would later include a new government tower, Queen’s Wharf. “What we are talking about is the birthplace of Queensland; certainly Brisbane, but it is also Queensland because this is where it all started,” Beanland said.
Wendy Yamin and Peter Leffley, visiting from Sydney on Monday, read an information board about Brisbane’s history but expected more recognition of the birthplace of the colony.
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