As a frequent traveller between Europe and Australia, I have the following strategies. However, I do know individuals are quite different, and it's about what suits you, and not so much what suits many people. Nevertheless I shall list what I do for myself. I do not suffer much jetlag at all as a result.

- I maximise my sleep on board. It doesn't matter if it's a day flight or night flight, I just sleep as much as I can. The only exception is when I arrive at the destination at night, in which case I stay awake on the last leg of the flight, unless I actually want to sleep.

- On arrival, if it's at night, go straight to bed. If needed, take a sleeping pill to force yourself to sleep.

- On arrival, if it's very early in the morning, make sure you get a room with good block-out curtains and sleep until around 10-11am. Get up and go out. Open the curtains, and do not hang around the room, or you may fall asleep at a wrong time. Falling asleep at a wrong time will prolong my jetlag, I found. Stay out as late as you can, and then go to bed at a normal time, not more than a few hours earlier. If you want to go out and party all night, that's a different matter though

- Reduce your alcohol intake. I avoid alcohol completely when travelling because I find it affects my quality of sleep as well as dehydrating my skin. I love my beauty therapist but I'm not keen enough to take her with me on trips, so I avoid dehydration. However, I'm not telling everyone to abstain. Just don't over-indulge if you want a decent quality of sleep and also avoid dehydration (and the hydration cycle, which will catch up with you with your kidneys going ga-ga in the middle of the night, further reducing the quality of your sleep).

- No excessive tea or coffee, especially 3-4 hours before you go to sleep. But if you need coffee to wake up in the morning, do so. Australia has decent coffee shops.

In addition, re-consider your travel to Brisbane if you can, unless you are needed there for a specific reason. It's been flooded!