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Lord Mayor of Brisbane

The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, and the head of the Brisbane City Council. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner of the Liberal National Party was sworn in on 8 April 2019, following the resignation of Graham Quirk.[2]

The Lord Mayor serves a four-year term running concurrently with that of the City Council, and is elected by optional preferential voting. As Brisbane is by far the largest local government area in Australia, the Lord Mayor is elected by the largest single-member electorate in the Commonwealth.

Like all mayors in Queensland, the Lord Mayor has broad executive powers and additional civic and ceremonial duties.[3][4] The Lord Mayor is responsible for policy development, implementing policies enacted by the council, leading and controlling the business of council, preparing the budget and directing the chief executive and senior managers.[4][5][6] The Lord Mayor also chairs the council's Civic Cabinet and is an ex officio member of all council committees.[2]

Mayors of the Brisbane Municipal Council (1859–1903)

The Town of Brisbane, established in 1859, was led by a mayor.[7][8][9]

Mayors of the Brisbane City Council (1903–1925)

The City of Brisbane, established in 1903, replaced the Town of Brisbane and was led by a mayor.[11]

Lord Mayors of the Brisbane City Council

The new City of Brisbane, established in 1925, replaced the former City of Brisbane and is led by the Lord Mayor.

1925–present

Historical party names

Prior to 1976, conservative councillors stood on a variety of different platforms: the United Party, Nationalist Citizens Party, Civic Reform League, the Citizens' Municipal Organisation, the Liberal Civic Party and the Brisbane Civic Party.[13]

The United Party and its successor the Nationalist Citizens Party were created as the vehicle for conservative candidates to campaign against Labor candidates in the newly formed Brisbane City Council, without formally acknowledging their links to the main conservative party of the time. The Nationalist Citizens Party was doomed when the very conservative Civic Reform League was created on 12 December 1930. That saw most of the conservative councillors from the Nationalist Citizens Party, led by Acting Mayor Watson, defect to the Civic Reform League, which failed to win the subsequent elections.[14] The Progress Party was created at the same time and, in the 1931 election, saw only three of its candidates win, including John Greene, who became Lord Mayor as a compromise candidate amongst the 20 alderman.[15]

The Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO) was ostensibly a non-partisan grouping, but was informally aligned with the United Australian Party and then, after 1944, the newly formed Liberal Party. The CMO was formed on 23 June 1936 and was the platform for the election campaigns of Sir John Chandler and Sir Reg Groom. Finally, in the 1976 election, the Liberal Party began to contest Brisbane municipal elections under its own name.[16]

Electoral results

2024

2020

2016

2012

2008

References

  1. ^ O'Malley, Brendan (31 May 2022). "Wages revealed: Councillors, Lord Mayor get pay rise". The Courier-Mail.
  2. ^ a b Yamashita, Kate (12 March 2014). "Lord Mayor Graham Quirk". www.brisbane.qld.gov.au. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. ^ Sweeting, David (15 March 2017). Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance: Impact and Practice. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447327011. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b Sansom, Graham (September 2012). "Australian Mayors: What Can and Should They Do?" (PDF). University of Technology, Sydney. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  5. ^ Sansom, Graham; McKinlay, Peter (30 September 2013). New Century Local Government: Commonwealth Perspectives. Commonwealth Secretariat. ISBN 9781849290937. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  6. ^ "City of Brisbane Act 2010" (PDF). Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Council. 1 March 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  7. ^ Larcombe, F.A. (Frederick) (1973). The Origin of Local Government in New South Wales 1831–58. Sydney University Press. p. 274. ISBN 0-424-06610-6.
  8. ^ Brisbane City Council Archives
  9. ^ The Mayors of Brisbane, The Queenslander, Saturday 6 February 1892, page 278
  10. ^ Australian History Publishing Co (1936), Queensland and Queenslanders : incorporating 'Prominent Queenslanders', Australian History Publishing Co, p. 270, archived from the original on 2 October 2015, retrieved 1 October 2015 — available online Archived 16 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Agency Details – Brisbane City Council I". 2009. Archived from the original on 10 October 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  12. ^ "MR. T. WILSON DEAD". The Brisbane Courier. No. 23, 495. Queensland, Australia. 20 May 1933. p. 12. Retrieved 2 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ Shaping A City – Making Greater Brisbane Work (1925–1985), John Cole (1985), Published by William Brooks Queensland
  14. ^ John Cole (1985). Shaping A City – Making Greater Brisbane Work (1925–1985). William Brooks Queensland. pp. 49–52, 73–78.
  15. ^ John Cole (1985). Shaping A City – Making Greater Brisbane Work (1925–1985). William Brooks Queensland. p. 74.
  16. ^ John Cole (1985). Shaping A City – Making Greater Brisbane Work (1925–1985). William Brooks Queensland. pp. 98, 107–108.
  17. ^ "Lord Mayor - BCC Electorate, Candidates, Results". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 April 2024.
  18. ^ "Electoral Commission of Queensland". July 2019.
  19. ^ "Lord Mayor - Brisbane City Council 2020 Election Results | ECQ (Electoral Commission of Queensland)". ECQ (Electoral Commission of Queensland). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  20. ^ "Lord Mayor Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  21. ^ "2012 Brisbane City - Mayoral Election - Election Summary". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  22. ^ "BCC2012_Results". Electoral Commission Queensland. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  23. ^ "Mayoral Election - ABC News". ABC News. ABC Corporation. Retrieved 4 March 2017.

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