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Mulgildie Coal Measures
Mulgildie (formerly Mulgeldie) is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mulgildie had a population of 174 people. Geography The town is located by road from the state capital, Brisbane. The town is situated within the north of the locality. The Burnett Highway enters the locality from the south-east ( Tellebang), passes through the town along Wattle Street and Monal Street, and exits to the north ( Three Moon). Mulgildie railway station is an abandoned railway station on the abandoned Mungar Junction to Monto railway line (). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. History The town was named Mulgeldie in 1925, and is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal name ''bulgeldee'' referring to a deep waterhole on Three Moon Creek. The spelling was changed to Mulgildie on 15 March 1945. A postal receiving office opened in 1902 and closed in 1905. Mulgildie Post Office opened on 6 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnett Highway
The Burnett Highway is an inland rural highway located in Queensland, Australia. The highway runs between its junction with the Bruce Highway at Gracemere, just south of Rockhampton, and Nanango. Its length is approximately 542 kilometres. The highway takes its name from the Burnett River, which it crosses in Gayndah. The Burnett Highway provides the most direct link between the northern end of the New England Highway (at Yarraman, south of Nanango) and Rockhampton. It is designated as a State Strategic Road (part of Australia’s Country Way) by the Queensland Government. History In January 2013, Cyclone Oswald caused flood damage to the road and a partial closure between Bouldercombe and Mount Morgan, which took longer than a year to repair. Roads of Strategic Importance upgrade The Roads of Strategic Importance initiative, last updated in March 2022, includes the following project for the Burnett Highway. Intersection upgrade A project to upgrade the intersection of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungar Junction To Monto Railway Line
The Mungar Junction to Monto railway line is a railway in Queensland, Australia. Progressively opened in eleven stages between 1889 and 1928 the line branched from the North Coast line at Mungar Junction a short distance west of Maryborough and followed a westerly route towards Biggenden and Gayndah before turning north via Mundubbera and Eidsvold to Monto. It is also known as the Gayndah Monto Branch Railway. History Whilst Bundaberg was chosen as the port for a rail line to Mount Perry, Maryborough was selected as the port for a line to the Central and Upper Burnett districts of Queensland, where minerals had been found. Opening To Brooweena The first section from Mungar Junction to Brooweena was opened on 29 July 1889 and sidings were established at Pilerwa, Yerra, Thinoomba, Hunter's Hut and Aramara. Originally called Teebar and later known as Clifton and then Woocoo, Brooweena (perhaps an Aboriginal word for "crab" or "crayfish") acquired that name in 1890. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Curriculum, Assessment And Reporting Authority
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is the independent statutory authority responsible for the development of a national curriculum, a national assessment program, and a national data collection and reporting program that supports learning for Australian students. ACARA's work is carried out in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including teachers, principals, governments, State and Territory education authorities, professional education associations, community groups and the general public. It was established in 2008 by an Act of the Australian Federal Parliament. The authority is also responsible for the My School website and NAPLAN The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a series of tests focused on basic skills that are administered to Australian students in year 3, 5, 7 and 9. These standardised tests assess students' reading, writing, l ... testing. Progress of the development of each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgildie State School 001
Mulgildie (formerly Mulgeldie) is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mulgildie had a population of 174 people. Geography The town is located by road from the state capital, Brisbane. The town is situated within the north of the locality. The Burnett Highway enters the locality from the south-east ( Tellebang), passes through the town along Wattle Street and Monal Street, and exits to the north ( Three Moon). Mulgildie railway station is an abandoned railway station on the abandoned Mungar Junction to Monto railway line (). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. History The town was named Mulgeldie in 1925, and is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal name ''bulgeldee'' referring to a deep waterhole on Three Moon Creek. The spelling was changed to Mulgildie on 15 March 1945. A postal receiving office opened in 1902 and closed in 1905. Mulgildie Post Office opened on 6 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Burnett Regional Council
The North Burnett Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia in the northern catchment of the Burnett River. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the early 1900s. It has an estimated operating budget of A$32 million. History Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the North Burnett Region, located in the northern catchment of the Burnett River, existed as six distinct local government areas: * the Shire of Biggenden; * the Shire of Eidsvold; * the Shire of Gayndah; * the Shire of Monto; * the Shire of Mundubbera; * and the Shire of Perry. The first local government in the North Burnett area was the Gayndah Municipality, which was created on 28 November 1866 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1864. On 11 November 1879, the Rawbelle and Perry Divisions were created to serve regional areas under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879''. A third division, Eidsvold, was proclaimed on 25 January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided. International *World Heritage Sites (see Lists of World Heritage Sites) – UNESCO, advised by the International Council on Monuments and Sites *Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO) *Memory of the World Programme (UNESCO) *Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) – Food and Agriculture Organization *UNESCO Biosphere Reserve * European Heritage Label (EHL) are European sites which are considered milestones in the creation of Europe. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Aspinall
Phillip John Aspinall (born 17 December 1959) is an Australian Anglican bishop. He has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane since February 2002 and was also the Anglican Primate of Australia, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from July 2005 until he stood down on 4 July 2014.Melbourne Archbishop to lead Australian Anglican Church, 29 June 2014 (Accessed 30 June 2014) Early life and education Aspinall was born in Hobart Tasmania, Australia, on 17 December 1959. He obtained a Bachelor of Science, BSc degree from the University of Tasmania in 1980, a Graduate Diploma in Religious Education (GradDipRE) from Brisbane College of Advanced ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Archbishop Of Brisbane
The Archbishop of Brisbane is the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, Australia, and ''ex officio'' metropolitan bishop In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis. Originally, the term referred to the b ... of the ecclesiastical Province of Queensland. List of Bishops and Archbishops of Brisbane References External links * – official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Brisbane, Anglican Archbishop of Lists of Anglican bishops and archbishops Anglican bishops of Brisbane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulgildie Anglican Church 001
Mulgildie (formerly Mulgeldie) is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mulgildie had a population of 174 people. Geography The town is located by road from the state capital, Brisbane. The town is situated within the north of the locality. The Burnett Highway enters the locality from the south-east ( Tellebang), passes through the town along Wattle Street and Monal Street, and exits to the north ( Three Moon). Mulgildie railway station is an abandoned railway station on the abandoned Mungar Junction to Monto railway line (). The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with some crop growing. History The town was named Mulgeldie in 1925, and is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal name ''bulgeldee'' referring to a deep waterhole on Three Moon Creek. The spelling was changed to Mulgildie on 15 March 1945. A postal receiving office opened in 1902 and closed in 1905. Mulgildie Post Office opened on 6 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, Queensland, Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, Queensland, Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory. History The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four Nameplate (publishing), mastheads. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' later became ''The Courier (Brisbane), The Courier'', then the ''Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the Daily Mail in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Issue frequency increased steadily to bi-weekly in January 1858, tri-weekly in December 1859, then daily under the ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abercorn, Queensland
Abercorn is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Abercorn had a population of 46 people. Geography The Burnett River forms the eastern boundary of Abercorn. Three Moon Creek passes close to the town and across the locality into the Burnett River. The Burnett Highway passes through the locality but there is no direct access from the highway to the town; to get to Abercorn, the turn-off from the highway is onto Wuruma Dam Road at Cynthia. There is a state forest in the north of the locality extending into Kapaldo. History The town takes its name from its railway station, which was named on 19 June 1925 by the Queensland Railway Department.possibly after the champion thoroughbred horse Abercorn The origin of the railway station name may be after the champion thoroughbred horse Abercorn or after Abercorn Homestead as a gesture to “Old Boss”, Robert David Hamilton owner of the property. Abercorn State School opene ... [...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 families. At the end of 2022, the society relocated from 58 Bellevue Avenue, Gaythorne Gaythorne is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gaythorne had a population of 3,023 people. Geography Gaythorne is located seven kilometres north-west of the Brisbane central business district. It is bounded to ... () 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 Australia Libraries in Brisbane Family hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
