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North Rockhampton Cemetery
The North Rockhampton Cemetery is a cemetery in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, which was established in 1879. It is situated approximately 11 hectares of land beside the Bruce Highway at the junction of Yaamba Road and Moores Creek Road in Norman Gardens. It currently contains over 25,100 graves. History North Rockhampton Cemetery was established in 1879. According to council records, the first burial at the cemetery was that of a young girl called Elizabeth Rogers who was buried on 1 March 1879. The cemetery was officially consecrated on 15 September 1879 by Bishop Mathew Hale. This occurred eleven days after the cemetery's second burial when a woman named Annie Cusack was buried on 4 September 1879. In 1932, the cemetery was beautified with the trustees planting suitable shrubs and trees throughout the grounds. Garden seats and new toilet facilities were also installed. A waiting room and fully furnished office were also added which were officially opened by Owen Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Highway
The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian National Highway and also part of Highway 1, the longest highway route in Australia. Its length is approximately ; it is entirely sealed with bitumen. The highway is named after a popular former Queensland and federal politician, Harry Bruce. Bruce was the state Minister for Works in the mid-1930s when the highway was named after him. The highway once passed through Brisbane, but was truncated at Bald Hills when the Gateway Motorway became National Highway 1 upon its opening in December 1986. The highway is the biggest traffic carrier in Queensland. It initially joined all the major coastal centres; however, a number of bypasses, particularly in the south, have diverted traffic around these cities to expedite traffic flow and ease urban c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockland Rockhampton
Stockland Rockhampton is a shopping centre, located on the Bruce Highway in Park Avenue and Berserker in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. History and development The centre was originally known as Rockhampton Shopping Fair, and was built in two stages, the first opening in 1985 and the second in 1988. It was acquired by Schroders Property Fund along with two other Queensland shopping centres in January 1992, and in March 1996, following a redevelopment focused on the theme "Where The Outback Meets The Reef", the centre won a Certificate of Merit in the International Council of Shopping Centers' 1996 Design Awards Competition. At the time of AMP Asset Management's acquisition of the centre in August 1999, it had a floor area of and was valued at A$99 million. An internal refurbishment costing A$3 million was completed in late 2001 by Byvan, which included a new centre court design, new seating, a new Customer Services desk and new floors through the complex. The food cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marmor, Queensland
Marmor is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Marmor had a population of 212 people. Geography Marmor is approximately south of the city of Rockhampton. It is bounded to the north by the salt lakes of Port Alma and to the east and south-east by Raglan Creek and its tributary Horrigan Creek. The town is in the north-west of the locality. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the east (Raglan), bypasses immediately south-west of the town and exits to the north-west ( Bajool). The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the east (Raglan) immediately north of the highway, passes through the centre of the town, and then exists to the north-west (Bajool) immediately north of the highway, with the locality being served by the following stations: * Toonda railway station (now abandoned) () * Marmor railway station () * Sisalana railway station (now abandoned) () Toonda is a neighbourhood with the loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Malone
John York Millar Johnston (15 July 1909 – 21 August 1951), known professionally as Danny Malone, was an Irish tenor. Malone had considerable success in the 1930s after a successful audition with the BBC, selling thousands of gramophone records while also touring extensively throughout the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. Malone also appeared in a number of films including ''Rose of Tralee (1937 film), Rose of Tralee'', ''Stepping Toes'' and ''Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film), Bonnie Prince Charlie''. Early life Malone was born to William Henry and Isabella Johnston in Ballyclare, near Belfast, County Antrim on 15 July 1909. He was one of eight children and his family struggled in poverty. Growing up, he was forced to forgo some of his education to work selling newspapers for three years to support his family. He then obtained work at the shipyards at Belfast was left his job there due to poor working conditions, after which he roamed Ireland in search of job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darumbal People
The Darumbal people, also spelt Dharumbal, are the Aboriginal Australians that have traditionally occupied Central Queensland, speaking dialects of the Darumbal language. Darumbal people of the Keppel Islands and surrounding regions are sometimes also known as Woppaburra or Ganumi, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Country Traditional Darumbal land is considered to encompass an estimated around most of coastal Central Queensland, running from Arthur Point at Shoalwater Bay to Yeppoon, and taking in the mouth of Fitzroy River and Keppel Islands. From Keppel Bay they extended inland to Boomer Range, and Marlborough, Yaamba, Rockhampton, and Gracemere. History With the arrival of European settlers in the region, some Darumbal people were tolerated as part of fringe communities of the new settlements, but most were systematically killed to make way for pastoral development. According to some estimates, "between 1865 and 1902 the population of the Keppel Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Owners
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title to the land by the Crown at the time of sovereignty. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title over the same land. The foundational case for native title in Australia was ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (1992). One year after the recognition of the legal concept of native title in ''Mabo'', the Keating Government formalised the recognition by legislation with the enactment by the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherbourg, Queensland
Cherbourg (), formerly known as Barambah, Barambah Aboriginal Settlement and Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, is a rural town and locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Cherbourg, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Cherbourg had a population of 1,269 people, of whom 98.7% identified as Indigenous Australians. Geography Cherbourg is located off the Bunya Highway approximately north-west of Brisbane and from the town of Murgon. It is situated on Barambah Creek, close to Bjelke-Petersen Dam. History Wakka Wakka (Waka Waka, Wocca Wocca, Wakawaka) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Burnett River catchment. The Wakka Wakka language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the North and South Burnett Regional Council, particularly the towns of Cherbourg, Murgon, Kingaroy, Gayndah, Eidsvold and Mundubbera. The town was founded as a settlement for Aboriginal people, known as an Aboriginal reserve, under a policy of segre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Queenie Hart
Queenie Hart (born c.1947) was a 28-year-old Aboriginal Australian woman who was murdered in Rockhampton, Queensland on approximately 14 April 1975. No person has ever been convicted of her murder. Family members and supporters have attributed this to racial prejudice from the police, the media and the legal system, which have all been accused of downplaying the severity of the crime because the victim was Aboriginal. Early life Hart was in the Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, an Aboriginal reserve on Wakka Wakka country, where she grew up. The residents of the settlement were subject to the Aboriginal Protection Act which led to an oppressive and restricted life. Hart became a member of Murgon Impara's marching girls team which had considerable success, winning the Australian championships in 1960. Her involvement with the sport led to extensive touring which saw her travel throughout Queensland and down to Melbourne. Hart eventually arrived in Rockhampton, where she began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Creek Air Crash
The Canal Creek air crash occurred on 19 December 1943 when a C-47 aircraft of the 22d Troop Carrier Squadron 374th Troop Carrier Group crashed at Canal Creek, Queensland, fifty kilometres north of Rockhampton, killing all 31 people on board. The aircraft was enroute from Townsville to Brisbane with a scheduled stop in Rockhampton. The crash is believed to be caused by a fire in one of the engines which caused an explosion, destroying part of the aircraft causing it to disintegrate and crash. Those killed included twenty United States Armed Forces personnel, eight Australian Defence Force personnel, an Australian war photographer, a representative from the YMCA and an adjutant from the Salvation Army. Due to wartime censorship, there was very little press coverage of the accident, with the few newspaper articles that were published focusing on the non-combatants on-board such as Harold Dick (war photographer), Nigel James MacDonald (YMCA) and William Tibbs (Salvation Army). Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rewan Air Crash
The Rewan air crash occurred on 16 November 1943 when a Dakota C-47 of the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron of the 374th Troop Carrier Group crashed at Rewan, Queensland, south of Rolleston, Queensland, killing all 19 people on board.Dakota C-47 Air Crash Memorial Monuments Australia website. Accessed 28 August 2019. Those killed consisted of fourteen military personnel from the and the , and five personnel from the |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koongal, Queensland
Koongal is a suburb of Rockhampton in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. At the , Koongal had a population of 4,286 people. Geography The suburb is located on a small section of the Fitzroy River. The Rockhampton–Emu Park Road runs through from south-west to south-east. Koongal railway station is an abandoned railway station on the former North Rockahampton to Emu Park railway (). History On Sunday 17 May 1914 Bishop George Halford dedicated the Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist. The church was in Harbourne Street (approx ) and operated until 1977. St Maria Goretti Catholic Church opened in 1958 at 192 Thozet Road (corner Dunbar Street, ). It closed on 19 February 2017. Mount Archer State School opened on 25 January 1982. In September 2000, Enid O'Toole Park was officially opened in Koongal, named in honour of a local Rockhampton woman who is credited with pioneering the roles of women in the banking sector as one of the first female bank manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
