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Upper Mount Gravatt
Upper Mount Gravatt is a southern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Upper Mount Gravatt had a population of 10,800 people. Geography Upper Mount Gravatt is south of Mount Gravatt. It has increasingly become an important centre in the last 15 years. Logan Road, Brisbane, Logan Road and the Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads), Pacific Motorway run through the area, in addition to the South-East Busway, Brisbane, South-East Busway. Together with Indooroopilly, Queensland, Indooroopilly in the west, Chermside, Queensland, Chermside, on the north-side, and Carindale, Queensland, Carindale in the southeast the suburb has been described as a mini-Central business district (CBD). It contains the State Netball Centre, a major police district station and a regional Australian Taxation Office. Upper Mount Gravatt has long been one of the major centres outside the CBD, especially for those who reside on the south ... [...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] |
Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads)
The Pacific Motorway is a motorway in Australia between Brisbane, Queensland, and Brunswick Heads, New South Wales, through the New South Wales–Queensland border at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Tweed Heads. The motorway starts at Coronation Drive, Brisbane, Coronation Drive at Milton, Queensland, Milton in Brisbane, The Brisbane city section of the motorway is often referred to by its former name, the Riverside Expressway. The motorway is about long, and features eight traffic lanes with a speed limit between the M6 Logan Motorway at Loganholme, Queensland, Loganholme and State Route 10 Smith Street Motorway, Gold Coast, Smith Street Motorway at Gaven, Queensland, Gaven and generally six or four lanes at on other sections. The motorway then passes through the major tourist region of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, the destination for most of the vehicular traffic from Brisbane. It passes attractions such as Warner Bros. Movie World, Wet'n'Wild Water World at Oxen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters Of St Joseph Of The Sacred Heart
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, often called the Josephites or Brown Joeys, are a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Mary MacKillop (1842–1909). Members of the congregation use the postnominal initials RSJ (Religious Sisters of St Joseph). The order was founded in Penola, South Australia, in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and the Rev. Julian Tenison Woods. The centre of the congregation is at Mary MacKillop Place, Mount Street, North Sydney, New South Wales, where Saint Mary MacKillop's tomb is enshrined in the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel. At present there are around 900 sisters living and working throughout Australia (in all states except Tasmania) and New Zealand, as well as in Ireland and Peru. The current congregational leader of the Josephites is Sr Monica Cavanagh. Besides the main centre at North Sydney, the Josephites, who were named after Saint Joseph, have "Mary MacKillop Centres" at Penola, South Australia; the Adelaide suburb of Kensingto ... [...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] |
Upper Mount Gravatt State School
Upper Mount Gravatt State School is an independent public co-educational primary school located in the Brisbane suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Queensland Department of Education, with an enrolment of 507 students and a teaching staff of 39, as of 2023. The school serves students from Prep to Year 6. Its opening unofficially established the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt. History The community came together and cleared the grounds of trees and scrub for the construction of the school. The budget of £1,117 for the erection of the school was given by the Public Works department in May 1929. On 19 September 1929, the Education Department formally announced a school would open in Upper Mount Gravatt. The school opened on 1 October 1929, with the official opening ceremony occurring on Saturday afternoon, 5 October 1929. Approximately 300 people attended the ceremony, which was led by the education minister at the time, Reginald Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Mount Gravatt Busway Station, Brisbane
Upper Mount Gravatt busway station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt. It opened on 30 April 2001 when the South East Busway was extended from Woolloongabba to Eight Mile Plains. It was built beneath the existing Garden City bus station at Westfield Mt Gravatt. It is served by 10 routes operated by Transport for Brisbane, Clarks Logan City Bus Service, Mt Gravatt Bus Service and Transdev Queensland Transdev Queensland Bus is an Australian operator of bus services in the Redland City region of Brisbane. It operates 31 services under contract to the Government of Queensland under the Translink banner. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Austral ... as part of the Translink network. References External links * Upper Mount Gravatt station Translink {{Navbox South East Busway, Brisbane, state=collapsed Bus stations in Brisbane Transport infrastructure completed in 2001 2001 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westfield Mt Gravatt
Westfield Mt Gravatt (formerly known as Westfield Garden City and colloquially known as Garden City or Garbo) is one of Brisbane's major shopping centres, located in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt in Queensland, Australia. It is operated by the Scentre Group. Within the centre is Upper Mount Gravatt Post Shop and Garden City Library. Another notable feature of Garden City is the Town Square, which is an outdoor dining area featuring coffee shops, restaurants and an Event Cinemas complex. On 8 August 2022, the centre was renamed Westfield Mt Gravatt to better reflect its location, although the centre is not in the suburb of Mount Gravatt (which is approximately 2 km to the north) but in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt. History Garden City was constructed by Hooker Projects and pre-sold to the department store company David Jones in 1960. Opened on 1 October 1970, Garden City featured a three level David Jones department store, a two level McDonnell and East departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Taxation Office
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian Government. The ATO has responsibility for administering the Taxation in Australia, Australian federal taxation system, Superannuation in Australia, superannuation legislation, and other associated matters. Responsibility for the operations of the ATO are within the portfolio of the Treasurer of Australia and Department of the Treasury (Australia), the Treasury. As the Australian government's principal revenue collection body, the ATO collects income tax, Goods and Services Tax (Australia), goods and services tax (GST) and other federal taxes. The ATO also has responsibility for managing the Australian Business Register, delivering the Tertiary education fees in Australia, Higher Education Loan Program, delivering many Australian government payments and administering key components of Australia's superannuation system. History During the colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police
The police are Law enforcement organization, a constituted body of Law enforcement officer, people empowered by a State (polity), state with the aim of Law enforcement, enforcing the law and protecting the Public order policing, public order as well as the public itself. This commonly includes ensuring the safety, health, and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers encompass arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the Law enforcement agency powers, police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing. Police forces are usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city centre" or "downtown". However, these concepts are not necessarily synonymous: many cities have a central ''business'' district located away from its traditional city center, and there may be multiple CBDs within a single urban area. The CBD will often be highly accessible and have a large variety and concentration of specialised goods and services compared to other parts of the city. Midtown Manhattan is the world's largest central business district. In the City of London, the largest concentration of economic output in the world is held there, with many headquarters of major financial and law firms being based in the City. In Chicago, the Chicago Loop is the second-largest central business district in the United States. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carindale, Queensland
Carindale is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO, and borders Belmont, Carina, Carina Heights, Mackenzie, Mansfield, Mount Gravatt East, and Tingalpa. In the , Carindale had a population of 16,535 people. Notable features of the suburb include a large shopping centre – Westfield Carindale, the Pacific Golf Club, Belmont State School, Belmont Bushland Reserve, Belmont Private Hospital (psychiatric only) and Bulimba Creek. The Gateway Motorway borders the suburb. Toponymy Carindale was the name of a housing estate constructed in the area in 1976 and was taken as the official name of the suburb when it separated from Belmont in 1980. The name itself is a combination of "Carin" from the nearby suburb of Carina, and " Dale" meaning valley. History The area was first settled by Europeans in the 1850s, with activity focussing on timber and agriculture. Belmont State School opened on 5 June 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chermside, Queensland
Chermside is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The suburb is situated by road north of the Brisbane CBD. It is home to a large Westfield Group, Westfield shopping centre. In the , Chermside had a population of 11,426 people. Geography Chermside is a key destination along Queensland Transport's future Northern Busway, Brisbane, Northern Busway, and home to Westfield Chermside, the List_of_largest_shopping_centres_in_Australia, second largest Westfield Group, Westfield shopping centre in Australia, with a three-storey Myer and a 16 screen cinema complex. History The Chermside area was first settled by Europeans in the late 19th century. The first plot of land was sold on 23 May 1866, and the population has progressively increased since with a significant increase with the post-war residential development. When the Gympie goldrush started in 1867, many travellers heading north would run into trouble at a creek in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
