Brisbane Trades Hall, Labor movement headquarters in Brisbane, Australia

The Brisbane Trades Hall no longer stands: the building on Upper Edward Street, beside Jacob's Ladder, was demolished and the site is now occupied by the high-rise IBM building. Its successor, the TLC Building at 16 Peel Street, South Brisbane, is a five-floor commercial-style office block without a grand meeting hall.

The foundation stone for the first Trades Hall was laid in 1891, marking the start of organized labor activism in Queensland. A larger building was constructed in 1920 to meet the expanding needs of the union movement.

The second Trades Hall housed the Trades and Labour Council, now the Queensland Council of Unions, and in the late 1960s part of it held the FOCO club and bookshop, where the Society for Democratic Action met. The building was sold in 1984 and later demolished; the site now holds the IBM high-rise.

The Trades Hall building no longer stands: it was demolished and the site at Upper Edward Street is now occupied by the high-rise IBM building, so there is nothing of the hall itself to visit. The union movement's current headquarters is the TLC Building at 16 Peel Street, South Brisbane, a five-floor office block without a grand meeting hall.

The 1984 sale needed its own act of the Queensland Parliament, the Brisbane Trades Hall Management Act 1984, because the land had been granted specifically for use as a Trades Hall. The building was later demolished, and the site is now occupied by the high-rise IBM building.