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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