event of an invasion of Queensland by the Japanese in the Pacific War, that the rest of Australia through the Federal government would abandon all of Queensland to the north of Brisbane (the theoretical 'Brisbane Line'.) Recognition The Brisbane Institute received a mention in Mark Latham's The Latham Diaries (2005), on page 109. References External links The Brisbane Institute Website—archived From Noosa to the Tweed PDF The Water and Energy Crisis in Australia's first 200km City Brisbane Institute, The 1999 establishments in Australia Organisations based in Brisbane