Brisbane’s Greeters return after enforced COVID-19 break

Before becoming a Brisbane Greeter, Mr Chowhan travelled through Europe, joined the Air Training Corps and studied computer science, then worked in government as a systems analyst.

Mr Rogers, from Salisbury, did not have a career as television cowboy, but absolutely loves taking new visitors along the river to tell the stories of Brisbane’s early days.

Sandra Mitchell joined the Brisbane Greeters because she loves talking about the city’s history.

“Brisbane has everything you want as a city, without all the stress that Sydney and Melbourne have,” the education sector human relations consultant said.

“It’s a big country town, but it is still a city.”

Ms Mitchell tells her groups of six how Brisbane had been a frontier town that began life as…