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Shire Of Mulgrave (Queensland)
The Shire of Mulgrave was a Local government in Australia, local government area surrounding the City of Cairns in the Far North Queensland, Far North region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns, covered an area of ; it existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1995, when it was dissolved and amalgamated into the City of Cairns. History The Cairns Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' with a population of 34. On 3 June 1880, part of the Cairns Division was separated to create the Douglas Division. On 3 September 1881, the Tinaroo Division was created on 3 September 1881 under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' out of parts of the Cairns, Hinchinbrook Division, Hinchinbrook and Woothakata Division, Woothakata Divisions. Following a petition by local residents, on 28 May 1885, the Borough of Cairns was established under the ''Local Government Act 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's List of country subdivisions by area, sixth-largest subnational entity; it List of countries and dependencies by area, is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its Tropical climate, tropical and Humid subtropical climate, sub-tropical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woothakata Division
#REDIRECT Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a Local government in Australia, local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, Queensland, Mare ... Woothakata Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinsmead, Queensland
Brinsmead is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Far North Queensland, Australia. In the , Brinsmead had a population of 5,537 people. Geography Brinsmead is located by road north-west of the city centre of Cairns. The north-east of the locality is within Mount Whitfield Conservation Park which extends into the neighbouring locality of Mount Whitfield to the north-east. Apart from this protected area, the land use is predominantly residential. History Brinsmead is situated in the Yidinji traditional Aboriginal country. The suburb takes its name from the Brinsmead Gap, a topographical feature between the hills of the Whitfield Range, in turn named after Horace George Brinsmead, a sugar plantation owner at Freshwater who guided groups to see the Barron Falls, one of the first tourism ventures in the district. Cairns Christian College opened on 25 January 1983. It was later renamed Freshwater Christian College. Demographics In the , Brinsmead had a population o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barron Gorge, Queensland
Barron Gorge is a rural locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Barron Gorge had "no people or a very low population". Springs is a neighbourhood in the narrow centre part of the locality (). Geography Almost the entire area of the locality is undeveloped land within the Barron Gorge National Park which also extends into a number of neighbouring localities. The land rises from approximately 10 metres above sea level to the east of the locality up to a number of named peaks, including: * Red Peak, above sea level in the north of the locality (). * North Peak, in the middle of the locality () * Mount Williams, also known as Tokim Peak, in the south of the locality () * Red Bluff, a cliff () The name of the locality derives from the gorge created by the Barron River through the Macalister Range and the Lamb Range.The Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line provides the north-western boundary of the locality and also part of the south-eastern locality. The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barron, Queensland
Barron is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Barron had a population of 68 people. Geography Although Barron has been a suburb of Cairns rather than a locality since 2002, as at 2021, the principal land use is farming with little residential development. The locality is bounded to the north-east by the Captain Cook Highway and in the other directions by Kamerunga Road (approximately). The Tablelands railway line also forms the southern boundary with Freshwater railway station () serving the suburb. The Barron River enters the suburb from the south-west ( Kamerunga) as does Freshwater Creek (formerly the Davidson River) with their confluence on the western boundary of the suburb (). The river then flows towards the north of the suburb and then to the south-east (along the boundary with Stratford), finally exiting to the east ( Machans Beach). The land is flat and low-lying (less than 10 metres above sea level). The main crop is sugarcan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Heritage Register
The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As at 5 April 2020 there are 1790 places on the Queensland Heritage Register, including the Story Bridge in Brisbane and the Ross River Meatworks Chimney in Townsville. Criteria For a place to be entered in the register, it must be nominated and then go through a process of assessment. There are three categories for inclusion: * State Heritage Place (the most common type of entry), e.g. the Charters Towers Courthouse * Archaeological Place, e.g. the First Brisbane Burial Ground in the vicinity of Skew Street, Brisbane * Protected Area, e.g. the shipwreck of on K'gari Criteria for inclusion as a State Heritage Place For inclusion as a State Heritage Place on the Queensland Heritage Register, the place must satisfy one of the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers
Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall at 51 The Esplanade, Cairns City, Queensland, Cairns City, Cairns, Queensland, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Charles Dalton Lynch & Walter Hunt (architect), Walter Hunt and built from 1912 to 1913 by Wilson & Baillie. It is also known as Cairns Shire Offices. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 January 1999. History The former Shire of Mulgrave (Queensland), Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers, constructed in 1912–1913, is a single-storeyed masonry structure located fronting the Esplanade to the northeast. The structure was erected during a period of considerable building activity in Cairns, which occurred in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Cairns was established officially in October 1876 as a port to service the newly discovered Hodgkinson goldfields. In this first phase of Cairns' development there was a small flurry of building acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers (former)
Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall at 51 The Esplanade, Cairns City, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Charles Dalton Lynch & Walter Hunt and built from 1912 to 1913 by Wilson & Baillie. It is also known as Cairns Shire Offices. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 January 1999. History The former Mulgrave Shire Council Chambers, constructed in 1912–1913, is a single-storeyed masonry structure located fronting the Esplanade to the northeast. The structure was erected during a period of considerable building activity in Cairns, which occurred in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Cairns was established officially in October 1876 as a port to service the newly discovered Hodgkinson goldfields. In this first phase of Cairns' development there was a small flurry of building activity (mostly shanties and tent houses), but the town competed with both Cooktown and Port Douglas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral And Administrative Review Commission
The Electoral and Administrative Review Commission (1989–1993) was an agency of the Government of Queensland, Australia to investigate the electoral system and public administration of the state and local government in Australia, local government authorities of Queensland. History On 3 July 1989, the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (better known as the Fitzgerald Inquiry, Fitzgerald Report) recommended the establishment of an Electoral and Administrative Review Commission. The Queensland Government acted on the recommendation by passing the ''Electoral and Administrative Review Act 1989'' to establish the commission, whose purpose was to investigate and report on: * the Legislative Assembly electoral system * the operation of the Parliament * the public administration of the state * the local authority electoral system * local authority administration and to monitor the implementations of any reforms arising. The commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Woothakata
The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 2008, when it amalgamated with several councils in the Atherton Tableland area to become the Tablelands Region. On 20 March 2013, Mareeba residents voted in favour of a proposal to reverse the amalgamation and to re-establish Mareeba Shire. The new Mareeba Shire was re-established on 1 January 2014. In the , the Shire of Mareeba had a population of 22,858 people. History The Woothakata Division, based in the mining town of Thornborough on the Hodgkinson goldfield, was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' with a population of 1836. Woothakata is a Wakaman and Kuku Djungan Aboriginal word which describes the way (the journey) they travelled to Ngarr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Barron
The Shire of Barron is a former local government area in Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1890 and 1919. History Under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'', the Cairns Division, Hinchinbrook Division and Woothakata Division were created on 11 November 1879. On 3 September 1881, parts of each of these three divisions were excised to create the new Tinaroo Division. In 1889, residents of the No. 3 subdivision of Tinnaroo Division began to agitate for an independent division. On 20 December 1890, part of the Tinaroo Division was excised to create the new Barron Division. With the passage of the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'', the Barron Division became the Shire of Barron on 31 March 1903. On 20 December 1919, the Shire of Barron was abolished and was split between the Shires of Cairns and Woothakata. Chairmen * 1903: C P Andersen * 1904: William Walter Mason * 1905: Robert W Warren [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgrave, Queensland
Mulgrave is a rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mulgrave had a population of 19 people. Geography Although the Shire of Burdekin is mostly lower-lying land used for growing sugarcane, Mulgrave in the south-west of the shire has more mountainous terrain, with a number of named peaks and gorges (from north to south): * Woodhouse Mountain () * Bunkers Hill () * Nanny Goat Gorge () * Mount Dalrymple () * Bird Gorge () * Mount Benjonney () * Blue Mountain () There is some crop growing (including sugarcane) in the lower north-eastern part of the locality, but otherwise the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History The locality was officially named and bounded on 23 February 2001. Demographics In the , Mulgrave had a population of 21 people. In the , Mulgrave had a population of 19 people. Education There are no schools in Mulgrave. The nearest government primary schools are Clare State School in neighbouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
