Re report of Glossy Ibis on Eremaea 's Central & Southern Queensland page.

[Carl Clifford <>]

Laurie,

You forgot to add that it will soon be a suburb of Brisbane, due to urban 
sprawl, in the manner that Newcastle and Wollongong are suburbs of Sydney, 
hence NSW.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

On 24/10/2012, at 11:12 PM, Laurie Knight <> wrote:

> G'day Bob,
> 
> While I understand your position and acknowledge that Murrumba Downs is not 
> in the Brisbane City Council, it is nevertheless part of the Brisbane 
> metropolitan region and recognised as such by its inclusion in the ABS 
> Brisbane Statistical Division.
> 
> To 99.99% of humanity, it is as much a suburb of Brisbane as Penrith or 
> Hornsby is a suburb of Sydney, Werribee is a suburb of Melbourne or Joondalup 
> is a suburb of Perth.
> 
> Perhaps a more accurate description might be that Murrumba Downs is an 
> outer/peri-urban suburb of Brisbane.
> 
> Regards, Laurie.
> 
> On 24/10/2012, at 8:08 PM, Robert Inglis wrote:
> 
>> I don’t really enjoy becoming upset over things like this but the 24th Oct 
>> report of a Glossy Ibis at Murrumba Downs on the Central & Southern 
>> Queensland page claims that “Murrumba Downs is a suburb of Brisbane”.
>> 
>> Murrumba Downs is not a suburb of Brisbane!
>> 
>> It is a suburb of what used to be Pine Rivers but is now the Moreton Bay 
>> Region. It has never, during the current and previous centuries, at least, 
>> been a suburb of Brisbane.
>> I will concede that, depending on where in Brisbane you like to start from 
>> and which route you take, Murrumba Downs is probably 25 km north from 
>> Brisbane.
>> 
>> Please, people, can we be a little more thoughtful when we are pin-pointing 
>> a location for a sighting?
>> 
>> Bob Inglis
>> Sandstone Point
>> Qld
>> 
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