Brisbane Central Who's Who
YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR CONNECTIONS.
Meet the people behind the place.
Discover the people, businesses and groups who call Brisbane Central home, and meet members across Australia.
Each Portrait connects you with the public introduction and links that member has chosen to share.
Cleanwise Hygiene and Cleaning Services.
"Our Sanitary bins are high quality with a sleek design that compliments any female bathroom. We offer services in the NSW region and offer solution…
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Samantha Jane Johnson
Retired academic, Behavioural Scientist. Published author. Well regarded.
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Harry Adsett
Sole trader who enjoys working with dairy cattle and machinery, and knuckling down into dirty work to beautify that which is dirty - gutters, solar pa…
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Links Property Finance
Links Property Finance is an Enfield-based mortgage broker helping first home buyers and families across Sydney's Inner West. Director Charles Touma h…
View Public ProfileDistinguished and Famous people from Brisbane Central
Brisbane's central districts connect a schoolboy who became a major writer with a working woman who campaigned for political change. Schooling and public organising provide their specific local links.
📚 David Malouf
David Malouf attended Brisbane Grammar School at Spring Hill before studying at the University of Queensland. Raised on the south side of the river, he later made Brisbane an important setting in his fiction and autobiographical writing. Johnno, his first novel, appeared in 1975; The Great World won the Miles Franklin Award in 1990. For central Brisbane, the school is the precise connection: one stage in an education that preceded a much wider literary career.
🤝 Emma Miller
Emma Miller helped build Brisbane's organised labour and women's suffrage movements after arriving from England in 1879. A shirtmaker herself, she helped form a women workers' union and led the Woman's Equal Franchise Association. During the 1912 general strike she headed a contingent of women towards Parliament House. Her later campaigns opposed militarism and conscription. Central Brisbane's streets and institutions were working sites for her activism, and her statue in King George Square continues the city's public recognition of that life.
