Brisbane,Queensland capital, 1 421 700 inhabitants, is the most tropical Australian metropolis. "Beautiful one day, glorious the next" is the traditional description of the Southern coastline of Queensland.

Founded in 1824 in order to accomodate the "toughest convicts", it quickly turned, between 1960 and 1980, into a second Miami, with a collection of sky-scrapers with reflecting glasses and freeways, around the English colonial architecture.

Thanks to the tourist industry and very rich agricultural background it is an opulent city.

North of Brisbane lies the "Sunshine Coast", and South of it is the "Gold Coast": the Australian trilogy (Sun, Sand and Surf).