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Toobeah
Toobeah, pronounced 'two beer', is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the , the locality of Toobeah had a population of 149 people. Geography Toobeah is in the Darling Downs region. The town is on the Barwon Highway, south west of the state capital, Brisbane. History The town takes its name from the Toobeah railway station on the South Western railway line, which was established in 1910. The name is believed to be an Aboriginal word indicating ''to point'', possibly because of the presence of a sign post at the road junction where the railway station was built. Toobeah Provisional School opened on 12 October 1914. On 1 December 1914 it became Toobeah State School. It closed on 30 April 1964. It was on the northern corner of the Barwon Highway and Minnel Road (approx ). Demographics In the , the locality of Toobeah and the surrounding rural area had a population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungunya, Queensland
Bungunya is a rural town and locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the , the locality of Bungunya had a population of 62 people. Geography Bungunya is located immediately north of the Macintyre River, which is the border between Queensland and New South Wales. The Weir River flows from east to west through the northern part of the locality. Other creeks flow from east to west through other parts of the locality. All of these rivers and creeks ultimately flow into the Barwon River in New South Wales. The town is located in the approximate centre of the locality. The Barwon Highway (from St George to Goondiwindi) passes from east to west through the middle of the locality, immediately to the north of the town. The Meandarra – Talwood Road ( State Route 74) runs north from the Barwon Highway through the centre of the northern part of the locality. The South Western railway line (from W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callandoon, Queensland
Callandoon is a rural locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. In the , Callandoon had a population of 32 people. Geography The Macintyre River forms the southern boundary of the locality which is also part of the border between Queensland and New South Wales. The land use is a mixture of crop growing and grazing on native vegetation. History Callandoon pastoral station was established in the mid 1840s by the prominent colonial capitalist and New South Wales politician Augustus Morris. Strong Aboriginal resistance to the British occupancy of their lands in the area induced Morris and other prominent landholders such as William Wentworth to organise a Native Police force to crush the indigenous recalcitrance. Frederick Walker was the first Commandant of this force and through violent and coercive measures, he was able to place the area under British control by 1850. Callandoon became the headquarters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodar, Queensland
Goodar is a rural locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Goodar had a population of 101 people. Geography The locality is bounded by the Barwon Highway to the south. The Umbercollie State Forest is in the west of the locality. The South Western railway line enters the locality from the south-east (Goondiwindi) and exits to the south-west ( Toobeah). The land use is a mixture of dry and irrigated crop growing along with grazing on native vegetation. History The locality takes its name from a pastoral run held from 1847 by James Mark, transferred to Edward Gostwyk Cory in August 1849. The James Mark killings James Mark was infamous due to a campaign of slaughter he perpetrated on the local Aboriginal population in the late 1840s. He first occupied the Yallaroi run to the south of the Macintyre River but was forced to abandon it due to Aboriginal resistance. In 1847 he took up the Goodar run, where he was described by neighbouring colonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lundavra, Queensland
Lundavra is a rural locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Lundavra had a population of 56 people. Geography The Moonie Highway passes to the north, the Leichhardt Highway to the east, the Barwon Highway to the south, and the Meandarra Talwood Road (State Route 74) to the west. History Lundavra State School opened on 3 February 1964 with 16 students under principal Mr N Grayson. Demographics In the , Lundavra had a population of 100 people. In the , Lundavra had a population of 56 people. Education Lundavra State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 238 Lienassie Road (). In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 10 students with 2 teachers (1 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 14 students with 2 teachers and 4 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). In 2023, the school had an enrolment of 2 students. As at 2024, the school remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kioma, Queensland
Kioma is a rural locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kioma had a population of 32 people. Geography The Meandarra – Talwood Road ( State Route 74) forms part of the western boundary. History John Hubert Fairfax established Kioma Station in the early twentieth century. He was a grandson of John Fairfax, one of the early proprietors of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', and his wife was Ruth Fairfax (née Dowling), a founding member of the Australian Country Women's Association. Kioma State School opened on 9 November 1959 in response to a request from the managers of "Kioma" Station. Demographics In the , Kioma had a population of 30 people. In the , Kioma had a population of 32 people. Economy There are a number of homesteads in the locality: * Denver () * Kioma (), as of 2019 operated by JH Fairfax and Son Kioma Station has an airstrip () adjacent to the school. Education Kioma State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goondiwindi Region
The Goondiwindi Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia along the state's border with New South Wales. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas which dated back to the 19th century. It has an estimated operating budget of A$26.1 million. In the , the Goondiwindi Region had a population of 10,310 people. History Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Goondiwindi Region existed as three distinct local government areas: * the Town of Goondiwindi; * the Shire of Waggamba; * and the Shire of Inglewood. Inglewood and Waggamba began as two of Queensland's 74 divisions created under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879'' on 11 November 1879. The Municipality of Goondiwindi was proclaimed under the ''Local Government Act 1878'' on 20 October 1888. They became shires, and a town, respectively on 31 March 1903 under the ''Local Authorities Act 1902''. In July 2007, the Local Government Reform Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Western Railway Line, Queensland
The South Western line is a narrow-gauge railway line in the southern part of the state of Queensland, Australia. It junctions from the Southern railway line, Queensland, Southern line immediately south of Warwick railway station, Queensland, Warwick station and proceeded westwards for a distance of 413 km to the town of Dirranbandi, Queensland, Dirranbandi. A western extension to Boomi, New South Wales, Boomie in New South Wales, approved by the Queensland Parliament in 1914, was never constructed. The Thallon, Queensland, Thallon-to-Dirranbandi section was closed on 2 September 2010. It services the small towns of Inglewood, Queensland, Inglewood (junction of the now closed Texas railway line, Texas branch) and Goondiwindi as well as the villages of Yelarbon, Queensland, Yelarbon and Thallon, Queensland, Thallon among others. History The South Western line opened as far as Thane, Queensland, Thane on 1 July 1904 and was completed to Dirranbandi on 21 May 1913. A furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aboriginal Languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363. The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language family, language families and language isolate, isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings. Despite this uncertainty, the Indigenous Australian languages are collectively covered by the technical term "Australian languages", or the "Australian family". The term can include both Tasmanian languages and the Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Western Torres Strait language, but the Genetic relationship (linguistics), genetic relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Family History Society
The Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) is an incorporated association formed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The society was established in 1979 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation. They aim to promote the study of family history local history, genealogy, and heraldry, and encourage the collection and preservation of records relating to the history of 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 Austr ... families. At the end of 2022, the society relocated from 58 Bellevue Avenue, Gaythorne () to its new QFHS Family History Research Centre at 46 Delaware Street, Chermside (). References External links * Non-profit organisations based in Queensland Historical societies of Queensland Libraries in Brisbane Family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00). Time is regulated by the individual states and territories of Australia, state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used between the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: * New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Jervis Bay Territory and the Australian Capital Territory switches to the Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT; UTC+11:00), and * South Australia switches to the Australian Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT; UTC+10:30). Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Government
The Queensland Government is the state government of Queensland, Australia, a Parliament, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Government is formed by the party or coalition that has gained a majority in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, state Legislative Assembly, with the governor officially appointmenting office-holders. The first government of Queensland was formed in 1859 when Queensland separated from New South Wales under the Constitution of Queensland, state constitution. Since Federation of Australia, federation in 1901, Queensland has been a States and territories of Australia, state of Australia, with the Constitution of Australia regulating its relationship with the Australian Government, federal government. Queensland's system of government is influenced by the Westminster system and Federalism in Australia, Australia's federal system of government. Executive acts are given legal force through the actions of the governor of Queensland (the representative of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
