Fortitude Valley

About this audio guide

This guide to Fortitude Valley in Brisbane centres on Bubbles Bath House, once dressed up as a massage parlour to run an illegal casino behind closed doors, and on the wider economy of grog runs and police payoffs that kept the Valley's nightlife going for decades. It follows the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the corruption investigation that reached into this building, and the officials it eventually brought down. You will also hear about Pinocchio's nightclub down the street, where the beer trucks ran after midnight.