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.
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 Australia.
Like all mayors in Queensland, the Lord Mayor has broad executive powers and additional civic and ceremonial duties. 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. The Lord Mayor also chairs the council's Civic Cabinet and is an ex officio member of all council committees.
Mayors of the Brisbane Municipal Council (1859–1903) The Town of Brisbane, established in 1859, was led by a mayor.Brisbane City Council ArchivesThe Mayors of Brisbane, The Queenslander, Saturday 6 February 1892, page 278 MayorTermJohn Petrie1859–1862Thomas Blacket Stephens — available online 1862George Edmondstone1863Joshua Jeays1864Albert John Hockings (1st term)1865Richard Warry1866Albert John Hockings (2nd term)1867John Hardgrave1868–1869William Pettigrew1870Francis Murray1871Edward Joseph Baines1872James Swan1873–1875Richard Ash Kingsford1876Alfred Hubbard1877–1878John Daniel Heal1879John Sinclair1880–1881Robert Porter1882Abram Robertson Byram1883John McMaster (1st term)1884Benjamin Harris Babbidge1885James Hipwood1886–1887Richard Southall1888William McNaughton Galloway1889John McMaster (2nd term)1890John Allworth Clark1891George Watson1892John McMaster (3rd term)1893Robert Fraser1894–1895Robert Woods Thurlow1896John McMaster (4th term)1897William Thorne1898William Andrew Seal1899James Nicol Robinson1900Thomas Proe (1st term)1901Leslie Corrie1902–1903
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. MayorTermPartyLeslie Corrie1903Thomas Rees1904Thomas Proe (2nd term)1905John Crase1906William Murray Thompson1907Charles Packenham Buchanan (1st term)1908Thomas Wilson1909John Hetherington (1st term)1910Harry Diddams (1st term)1911Alfred John Raymond1912Harry Doggett1913Charles Moffatt Jenkinson1914George Down1915John Hetherington (2nd term)1916–1917John McMaster (5th term)1918–1919Charles Packenham Buchanan (2nd term)1919–1919James Francis Maxwell1920–1921 NationalHarry Diddams (2nd term)1921–1924Maurice Barry1924–1925LaborThomas Wilson (2nd term)1925
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 No.PortraitMayorPartyTerm startTerm end Council control (term) 1 William Jolly United 1925 24 February 1931 2 Archibald Watson Nationalist Civic 24 February 1931 11 May 1931 3 John William Greene Progressive 11 May 1931 1934 4 Alfred James Jones Labor 1934 1940 5 John Beals Chandler Citizens' Municipal Organisation 1940 1952 6 Frank Roberts Labor 1952 1955 7 Reg Groom Citizens' Municipal Organisation 1955 1961 8 Clem Jones Labor 1961 1975 9 Bryan Walsh Labor 1975 1976 10 Frank Sleeman Labor 1976 1982 11 Roy Harvey Labor 1982 1985 12 Sallyanne Atkinson Liberal 1985 1991 13 Jim Soorley Labor 1991 2003 14 Tim Quinn Labor 2003 27 March 2004 15 Campbell Newman Liberal 27 March 2004 15 March 2008Labor majority 15 March 2008 26 July 2008Liberal majority (15) Liberal National 26 July 2008 3 April 2011LNP majority 16 Graham Quirk Liberal National 3 April 2011 8 April 2019 17 Adrian Schrinner Liberal National 8 April 2019 incumbent
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.Shaping A City – Making Greater Brisbane Work (1925–1985), John Cole (1985), Published by William Brooks Queensland
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. 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.
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.
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