Christopher
@chrissalisbury
a historical footnote(r)
Queensland, the ‘Corsica of the South’, wishes all who celebrate a happy Bastille Day / fête nationale 🍍🇫🇷
Gonna watch this absolute classic of early 90s lo-fi Aussie cinema at next opportunity. RIP Sam Neill you legend
Skylab, 47 years ago today: erm look out Western Australia, huge space debris incoming, sorry ‘bout that Esperance shire council: chuck that junk on the back of the ute would ya, Barry, see if we can flog it on eBay. Oh and send those rude bastards at NASA a fine for littering
wishing a happy ‘Fitzgerald Inquiry report submitted to Queensland parliament’ day to all who celebrate ⚖️
Known elsewhere as D-Day, Queenslanders today mark Queensland Day honouring those brave forebears who stormed the beaches at Southbank and liberated the Castlemaine Perkins brewery at Milton to the delight of war-weary local inhabitants. Lest we forget
Tribute post for Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Janet Ballion) whose birthday it is today and who along with the Banshees heroically played a memorable set at the Livid Festival in West End on a sweltering hot, steamy day in 1993. So also a tribute to the diehard Brisbane goths who turned out in force 🦾🦇🖤
tfw the rain is so hard even the feathered friends have to take shelter 🦜
Guess it’s been overshadowed today by a certain by-election, but #otd 125 years ago the first federal Parliament of the new Australian Commonwealth sat in Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. The grandeur of the opening ceremony was captured expertly by Tom Roberts in his ‘Big Picture’.
A very happy world donkey day to all who (rightly) celebrate 🩶 Here’s a donkey selflessly contributing to the civic discourse around Western Australia’s 1933 secession referendum
Twenty years today, Grant McLennan sadly departed this world and the lights dimmed on Brisbane’s ’striped sunlight’ soundscape. From a rich musical legacy, Cattle & Cane remains as gorgeously evocative an Australian tune as ever written 🖤 youtu.be/ZCbyByY-A6w?...
Today, May the Fourth, is Labour Day in Queensland when we mark the pastoral industry origins of the labour movement. Pictured: rebel workers defend the strike camp at Barcaldine, central Queensland, against hostile colonial police troopers during the Great Shearers Strike of 1891.
Gorgeous evening to be back in marvelous Melbourne, or as it’s often called here ‘the Brisbane of the South’
The ibis in this photo posted to another site was described as a Goth Ibis and I think we’ve found our Brisbane Olympics mascot, in deference both to the local bin chicken but also to Brisbane’s goths, whose climate-defying devotion to the subculture is legendary and deserving of gold medal status 🦾
Flashback to January 1992, Brisbane’s Festival Hall (RIP) hosted Violent Femmes and Nirvana. Didn’t go (saw them play at Fisherman’s Wharf on the Gold Coast the previous day) but been told it was a cracking gig 💥
friends: hope the Easter bunny finds you! the Easter bunny finding me:
I don’t often Polish Club. But when I do, I Brisbane Polish Club 🤍❤️
tired: scrolling countless variations of words that rhyme with ‘matter’ inspired: admiring colourful vintage tourism posters of Coolangatta 🌞
80s peak era for rock stars lionising Ned Kelly, another case in point
Never not gonna post this when the heavens open over the subtropical paradise that is Brisbane / Magandjin 🌧️
just like Brisbane/Meeanjin, every great city should have its own Brown Snake [Manila version pictured]