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Danderoo, Queensland
Danderoo is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Danderoo had a population of 30 people. Geography The predominant land use is for crops with small areas of grazing on native vegetation. History The name ''Danderoo'' is believed to be an Aboriginal word, meaning a ''place of killing'', possibly referring to a clash between Aboriginal people and shepherds on Toolburra pastoral run in the 1840s. Danderoo State School opened on 22 January 1900 and closed on 1964. In the , Danderoo had a population of 30 people. Education There are no schools in Danderoo. The nearest primary school is Yangan State School in Yangan to the north. The nearest secondary school is Killarney State School (to Year 10) in Killarney to the south-east and Warwick State High School (to Year 12) in Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. 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 mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yangan, Queensland
Yangan is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yangan had a population of 386 people. Geography The locality is traversed by Swan Creek, a tributary of the Condamine River. Sandstone is extracted from a quarry directly south of the town's centre from a property which fronts Swan Creek. History The district was known as Upper Swan Creek, but in 1887 took the name ''Yangan'' from its railway station. The name ''Yangan'' is reported to be an Aboriginal word meaning ''proceed'' or ''go away''. Swan Creek (No. 2) School opened on 27 May 1874. In 1878 it was renamed Swan Creek Upper State School. In 1887 it became Yangan State School. On Monday 15 May 1905 the Bishop of Brisbane St Clair Donaldson consecrated the new Anglican church, St Peter's. The architect was Conrad Dornbusch and the contractor was Mr J. Purcell. The final service was held on Palm Sunday 25 March 2018 and a deconsecration service was held on Saturday 21 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killarney, Queensland
Killarney is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It borders New South Wales. In the , the locality of Killarney had a population of 954 people. Geography Killarney is located south-east of Warwick on the Condamine River in the Darling Downs. Killarney is located about from the Queensland/New South Wales border. It is close to Queen Mary Falls in the Main Range National Park, where Spring Creek plunges into the valley. Mountain View is a neighbourhood within the locality of Killarney (). Melrose is a neighbourhood within the locality of Killarney (); it is associated with the Melrose pastoral station. History The Githabal (also known as Gidabal, Kitabal) language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Southern Downs Regional Council, particularly Warwick, Killarney and Woodenbong extending into New South Wales. Killarney bordered on the northern boundaries of the Yetimarala. Originally p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick, Queensland
Warwick ( ) is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Region Local government in Australia, local government area. The surrounding Darling Downs have fostered a strong agricultural industry for which Warwick, together with the larger city of Toowoomba, serve as convenient service centres. The town had an urban population of 15,380 as at June 2018, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. having declined slightly at an average annual rate of -0.15% year-on-year over the preceding five years. Geography The Condamine River meanders from the east to the north-west of Warwick. One of its tributaries, Rosenthal Creek, enters Warwick from the south and enters the Condamine within Warwick. The Cunningham Highway and the New England Highway jointly enter Warwick from the north, cross the Condamine River, and then turn west within the town close to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Traditional Owners of the Brisbane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Southern Downs
Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 2001 as a replacement for Warwick. The district takes in the southern parts of the Darling Downs region along the New South Wales border. It includes the major towns of Warwick, Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi and extends westward almost to St George. It includes a number of smaller communities such as: * Allora * Cecil Plains * Inglewood * Killarney * Leyburn * Millmerran * Texas * Wallangarra * Yelarbon Darling Downs has traditionally been a conservative area, and Southern Downs is no exception. It has been a comfortably safe seat for the Liberal National Party and its predecessor, the National Party for its entire existence. Predecessor seat Warwick had been in the hands of a non-Labor party since 1947. The seat's first member, Lawrence Springborg, transferred from Warwick in 2001. He served as the last leader of the Queensland branch of the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Maranoa
The Division of Maranoa is an Australian electoral division in Queensland. Maranoa extends across the Southern Outback and is socially conservative. In the 2016 and 2019 federal elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation finished ahead of Labor, reaching 20% of the primary vote. Maranoa is a stronghold for the Liberal National Party of Queensland. The current MP is David Littleproud, former Minister of Agriculture and current leader of the National Party. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emu Vale, Queensland
Emu Vale is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Emu Vale had a population of 185 people. History The town takes its name from the Emu Vale railway station on the Killarney railway line, which is believed to be named after an early pastoral run. Emu Vale Provisional School opened on 2 February 1876. It became Emu Vale State School on 20 January 1879. It was closed on 31 December 2003. The school was located on the triangle of land bounded by Yangan Killarney Road, Swift Road and Emu Creek (). The school's website was archived. Land in Emu Vale was Land selection in Queensland, open for selection on 17 April 1877; were available. The first section of the Killarney railway line from Warwick was long and terminated at Emu Vale. The contract to build the first section was given to John Garget (contractor), John Garget on 22 November 1881, but progress was delayed when the Queensland Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tannymorel, Queensland
Tannymorel is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Tannymorel had a population of 161 people. History The name ''Tannymorel'' comes from a village in Ireland and means ''a bend in the creek''. It was named by Patrick Leslie and Ernest Dalrymple, both of whom were from Scotland. Farm Creek Provisional School opened on 22 May 1877. On 18 January 1892 it became Farm Creek State School. In 1910 it was renamed Tannymorel State School in 1910. The school closed on 20 July 2017. The school was at 2 Oak Street (). The Killarney railway line from Warwick to Killarney reached Tannymorel on 24 August 1885 with town being served by the Tannymorel railway station (). Grayson railway station was to the south-east of the town on Grayson Siding Road (). The Mount Colliery Tramway, a private 5 km-long horse tramway, opened in 1908. The tramway joined the line at Tannymorel to transport coal from a nearby mine to the rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiyarra, Queensland
Wiyarra is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Wiyarra had a population of 19 people. History The locality takes its name from a former railway station, an Aboriginal word for a local lagoon with black swans Black swan is the common name for ''Cygnus atratus'', an Australasian waterfowl. (The) Black Swan(s) may also refer to: Film and television * ''The Black Swan'' (film), a 1942 swashbuckler film * ''Black Swans'' (film), a 2005 Dutch drama film * ' .... References Southern Downs Region Localities in Queensland {{SouthernDowns-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junabee, Queensland
Junabee is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Junabee had a population of 213 people. History Junabee Provisional School opened in 1904. On 1 January 1909 it became Junabee State School. It closed on 1 May 1939, but reopened in 1953. It closed permanently on 28 January 1963. A new public hall opened in Junabee on Wednesday 5 August 1908. Jingarry State School opened on 4 August 1919. It closed on 28 January 1963. It was at 439 Jingarry Mount Sturt Road (). St George's Anglican Church held its first service on 4 March 1945. It closed in 1973. However, there are mentions of an earlier church dating back to 1908. On 5 January 1946, the Junabee Memorial Hall was opened at 573 Roona Road (). The hall commemorates those who served in World War I and World War II. In the , Junabee had a population of 213 people. Education There are no schools in Junabee. The nearest primary schools are Warwick East State School in Warwick Warwic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suburbs And Localities (Australia)
Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia, used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
