| Post: | Lord Mayor |
| Body: | Brisbane |
| Flag: | Flag of Brisbane.svg |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of the City of Brisbane |
| Insigniacaption: | Brisbane City Council Logo |
| Incumbent: | Adrian Schrinner |
| Incumbentsince: | 8 April 2019 |
| Style: | The Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Councillor |
| Member Of: | Civic Cabinet |
| Seat: | Brisbane City Hall |
| Termlength: | 4 years (renewable) |
| Inaugural: | William Jolly |
| Salary: | A$377,394 (not including allowance)[1] |
| Website: | www.brisbane.qld.gov.au |
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 Australia.
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.[5] [6] The Lord Mayor also chairs the council's Civic Cabinet and is an ex officio member of all council committees.
The Town of Brisbane, established in 1859, was led by a mayor.[7] [8] [9]
| Mayor | Term | |
|---|---|---|
| John Petrie | 1859–1862 | |
| Thomas Blacket Stephens[10] | 1862 | |
| George Edmondstone | 1863 | |
| Joshua Jeays | 1864 | |
| Albert John Hockings (1st term) | 1865 | |
| Richard Symes Warry | 1866 | |
| Albert John Hockings (2nd term) | 1867 | |
| John Hardgrave | 1868–1869 | |
| William Pettigrew | 1870 | |
| Francis Murray | 1871 | |
| Edward Joseph Baines | 1872 | |
| James Swan | 1873–1875 | |
| Richard Ash Kingsford | 1876 | |
| Alfred Hubbard | 1877–1878 | |
| John Daniel Heal | 1879 | |
| John Sinclair | 1880–1881 | |
| Robert Porter | 1882 | |
| Abram Robertson Byram | 1883 | |
| John McMaster (1st term) | 1884 | |
| Benjamin Harris Babbidge | 1885 | |
| James Hipwood | 1886–1887 | |
| Richard Southall | 1888 | |
| William McNaughton Galloway | 1889 | |
| John McMaster (2nd term) | 1890 | |
| John Allworth Clark | 1891 | |
| George Watson | 1892 | |
| John McMaster (3rd term) | 1893 | |
| Robert Fraser | 1894–1895 | |
| Robert Woods Thurlow | 1896 | |
| John McMaster (4th term) | 1897 | |
| William Thorne | 1898 | |
| William Andrew Seal | 1899 | |
| James Nicol Robinson | 1900 | |
| Thomas Proe (1st term) | 1901 | |
| Leslie Corrie | 1902–1903 |
The City of Brisbane, established in 1903, replaced the Town of Brisbane and was led by a mayor.[11]
| Mayor | Term | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Corrie | 1903 | |||
| Thomas Rees | 1904 | |||
| Thomas Proe (2nd term) | 1905 | |||
| John Crase | 1906 | |||
| William Murray Thompson | 1907 | |||
| Charles Packenham Buchanan (1st term) | 1908 | |||
| Thomas Wilson | 1909 | |||
| John Hetherington (1st term) | 1910 | |||
| Harry Diddams (1st term) | 1911 | |||
| Alfred John Raymond | 1912 | |||
| Harry Doggett | 1913 | |||
| Charles Moffatt Jenkinson | 1914 | |||
| George Down | 1915 | |||
| John Hetherington (2nd term) | 1916–1917 | |||
| John McMaster (5th term) | 1918–1919 | |||
| Charles Packenham Buchanan (2nd term) | 1919–1919 | |||
| James Francis Maxwell | 1920–1921 | National | ||
| Harry Diddams (2nd term) | 1921–1924 | |||
| Maurice Barry | 1924–1925 | Labor | ||
| Thomas Wilson (2nd term)[12] | 1925 | |||
The new City of Brisbane, established in 1925, replaced the former City of Brisbane and is led by the Lord Mayor.
| No. | Portrait | Mayor | Party | Term start | Term 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 2008 | Labor majority | |||
| 15 March 2008 | 26 July 2008 | Liberal majority | ||||||
| (15) | Liberal National | 26 July 2008 | 3 April 2011 | LNP majority | ||||
| 16 | Graham Quirk | Liberal National | 3 April 2011 | 8 April 2019 | ||||
| 17 | Adrian Schrinner | Liberal National | 8 April 2019 | incumbent | ||||
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]