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Mooroobool
Mooroobool is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mooroobool had a population of 7,222 people. Geography Mooroobool is located west of the Cairns central business district. Mooroobool has a mixture of dwellings which are mainly residential and commercial properties. Nearby suburbs are Earlville and Kanimbla. History Mooroobool is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. The suburb was named by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 September 1973. The origin of the suburb name is from the geographical feature Mooroobool Peak located west from the suburb, named from an Aboriginal word meaning 'meeting of the waters'. Kingsford Street is named after Richard Ash Kingsford, who was mayor of Cairns from 1885-1886 and in 1889. Balaclava State School opened on 2 February 1954. At the , Mooroobool had a population of 6,618. In the , Mooroobool had a population of 7,222 people. Amenities Mooroobool has a Campbell’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanimbla, Queensland
Kanimbla is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kanimbla had a population of 2,670 people. Geography Kanimbla is west of the city centre. The suburb straddles the upper reaches of Moody's Creek and is bordered to the north by the Cairns Western Arterial Road (state route 91). The main road that goes through Kanimbla is Ramsey Drive. Along the middle of the northern boundary is Whites Gap. In the south west elevations reach heights greater than 500 m towards the summit of Mooroobool Peak. Cairns Regional Council announced in 2013 that land had been purchased in Kanimbla to build a detention basin to alleviate seasonal flooding in suburbs downstream. History Kanimbla is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. On 11 February 1989 the suburb was created from land previously in Manoora and Mooroobool. The new suburb was named for the MV Kanimbla, a coastal passenger ship which had serviced Cairns before being pressed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earlville, Queensland
Earlville is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Earlville had a population of 4,030 people. Geography Earlville is approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) south-west of the Cairns City centre. The north-eastern part of the suburb is low-lying, less than above sea level but the land gradually rises towards the west becoming more mountainous in the western part of the suburb. Most of the residential land is in the centre and eastern parts of the suburb, while the more mountainous western part is undeveloped. Mulgrave Road goes through the suburb from the north-east ( Mooroobool / Bungalow) and then bends through the suburb to the south-east ( Woree). Gaviolis Hill is in the south-west corner of the suburb () at above sea level. It's also known as Henleys Hill and the hill is a park known as Henleys Hill Park. History Earlville is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. Most of the eastern part of the present suburb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westcourt, Queensland
Westcourt is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Westcourt had a population of 3,918 people. Geography The suburb is bounded: * to the south-east by Mulgrave Road (which is part of the Bruce Highway, which connects Brisbane to Cairns) * to the south-west by McCoombe Street, Givens Street, and Dillon Street * to the north-west by Lennon Street, Tills Street and Gatton Street * to the north-east by Fearnley Street and a drain Westcourt is flat low-lying land, less than above sea level. It is predominantly developed as residential housing. History Westcourt is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. The land of which Westcourt is situated was initially a dairy farm, which was subdivided in 1886. Westcourt, located east of the suburb Mooroobool, was named as a locality on 1 September 1973 and designated as a suburb on 7 June 2002. Local sportsground, Jones Park, is named after two brothers Jack Jones and Henry Ernest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamb Range, Queensland
Lamb Range is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lamb Range had a population of 0. Geography The locality takes its name from the mountain range Lamb Range. The locality that lies to the west of most of the southern suburbs of Cairns. It is undeveloped mountainous land rising from the coastal plains (elevation of less than 50 metres above sea level) up through the Great Dividing Range (with elevations up to 1200 metres) towards the Atherton Tableland. The land use is entirely committed to national parks and reserves. Dinden National Park and Lake Morris Reserve are in the north of the locality with Little Mulgrave National Park in the south. A small area in the west is in the Danbulla National Park. There is only one road through the locality. The Gillies Range Road (also known as the Gillies Highway) passes through the south of the locality connecting Gordonvale in the Cairns Region with Atherton in the Tablelands Region. Lake Morris Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungalow, Queensland
Bungalow is an inner suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Bungalow had a population of 2,159 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the north by Mulgrave Street (one of the major thoroughfares through Cairns connecting the Bruce Highway from the south to the Captain Cook Highway to the north) and by Hartley Street to the south. The suburb is almost entirely freehold and has a mixture of residential and commercial areas with no green space or other civic amenities. History Bungalow is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. The suburb name comes from "The Bungalow", the residence of Archdeacon Joseph Campbell, a clergyman and agricultural entrepreneur. The Cairns Germania Club was established on 4 July 1971 to cater for the needs of German speaking migrants with an initial nine members. The club's activities expanded to include folk dancing. In July 1980 the club wanted a clubhouse and purchased a former church in Winkw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns
Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland, and 15th in Australia. The city was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, following the discovery of gold in the Hodgkinson river. Throughout the late 19th century, Cairns prospered from the settlement of Chinese immigrants who helped develop the region's agriculture. Cairns also served as a port for blackbirding ships, bringing slaves and indentured labourers to the sugar plantations of Innisfail. During World War II, the city became a staging ground for the Allied Forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea. By the late 20th century the city had become a centre of international tourism, and in the early 21st century has developed into a major metropolitan city. Cairns is a popular touris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ash Kingsford
Richard Ash Kingsford (1821–1902) was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia, and a mayor of Cairns, Queensland. Early life and education Richard Ash Kingsford was born on 2 October 1821 in Canterbury, Kent, England, the son of John Kingsford and Mary Anne Walker.Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths & Marriages In 1852, after marrying Sarah Southerden, his first wife, in the fourth quarter of 1851, Kingsford and his wife emigrated to Sydney and, ultimately, relocated to Brisbane in 1854. Career Business life Kingsford was a partner in a drapery business in Queen Street, Brisbane with his brother John in the 1860s. Later (around 1878), he had a poultry farm at the Springs, Tingalpa, east of Brisbane. Daughter Catherine and her husband William Charles Smith, a bank manager, had moved to Cairns. In about 1883, Richard and Sarah Kingsford followed them there and established a fruit farm near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manunda, Queensland
Manunda is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Manunda had a population of 5,390 people. Geography Manunda is a flat suburb (0–10 metres above sea level). The southern part of Manunda is residential while the northern part contains a number of community amenities including sportsgrounds and the Cairns Cemetery (also known as Martyn Street Cemetery). In-between is a commercial/industrial estate flanking Anderson Street. History Manunda is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. On 11 January 1939 at the Lands Office in Cairns the Queensland Government auctioned 11 town lots of between between Little Street and the cemetery. The Cairns Seventh Day Adventist School opened on 6 February 1950 in the Cairns CBD. It later moved to premises at the Cairns Seventh Day Adventist Church at 302 Gatton Street, Manunda. On 27 October 2014, the school moved to purpose-built premises in Gordonvale and was renamed Cairns Adventis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns Regional Council
The Cairns Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, centred on the regional city of Cairns. It was established in 2008 by the amalgamation of the City of Cairns and the Shires of Douglas and Mulgrave. However, following public protest and a referendum in 2013, on 1 January 2014, the Shire of Douglas was de-amalgamated from the Cairns Region and re-established as a separate local government authority. The Cairns Regional Council has an estimated operating budget of A$300 million. History First Nations '' Yidinji'' (also known as ''Yidinj'', ''Yidiny'', and ''Idindji'') is an Australian Aboriginal language and a traditional Indigenous country. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns City (CBD), Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. ''Tjapukai'' (also know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manoora, Queensland
Manoora is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Manoora had a population of 6,027 people. Geography Maroora is west of the Cairns city centre in Far North Queensland. It straddles the Cairns Western Arterial Road (state route 91). History Manoora is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. The suburb was established in 1975 from part of Parramatta Park and all of the area known as West Cairns. It was named after HMAS Manoora, which was in turn named after the town of Manoora in South Australia. The ship was built in Scotland in 1935 as a coastal steamer for the Adelaide Steamship Company and regularly visited Cairns, and entered service with the Royal Australian Navy in the World War II. Pau Enterprises Indigenous Corporation was established in 2015 to manage and maintain the Pau family native title lands and interests on Darnley Island. It also seeks to create social enterprises on Darnley Island and other lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns Region
The Cairns Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia, centred on the regional city of Cairns. It was established in 2008 by the amalgamation of the City of Cairns and the Shires of Douglas and Mulgrave. However, following public protest and a referendum in 2013, on 1 January 2014, the Shire of Douglas was de-amalgamated from the Cairns Region and re-established as a separate local government authority. The Cairns Regional Council has an estimated operating budget of A$300 million. History First Nations '' Yidinji'' (also known as ''Yidinj'', ''Yidiny'', and ''Idindji'') is an Australian Aboriginal language and a traditional Indigenous country. Its traditional language region is within the local government areas of Cairns Region and Tablelands Region, in such localities as Cairns City (CBD), Gordonvale, and the Mulgrave River, and the southern part of the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. ''Tjapukai'' (also know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Government
The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Queensland has been a State of Australia, with the Constitution of Australia regulating the relationships between all state and territory governments and the Australian Government. Under the Australian Constitution, all states and territories (including Queensland) ceded powers relating to certain matters to the federal government. The government is influenced by the Westminster system and Australia's federal system of government. The Governor of Queensland, as the representative of Charles III, King of Australia, holds nominal executive power, although in practice only performs ceremonial duties. In practice executive power lies with the Premier and Cabinet. The Cabinet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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