Ha!!! ha!!!! ha!!!! Not a chance. Lonely Planet is so far behind the times.
In fact was Brisbane ever hip?
We don't even have a beach and NO South bank is NOT the beach!
The food is average to completely terrible in most establishments unless you can afford to sell your granny to eat out.
The current political leaders are hell bent on taking us all back to the 1980's and the dictatorship of Joh Bjelke-Petersen.