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Pullenvale Ward
The Pullenvale Ward is a Brisbane City Council ward covering Pullenvale, Anstead, Bellbowrie, Brookfield, Karana Downs, Kenmore, Kenmore Hills, Kholo, Lake Manchester, Moggill, Mt Crosby, Pinjarra Hills, Upper Brookfield and parts of Chapel Hill Chapel Hill or Chapelhill may refer to: Places Antarctica * Chapel Hill (Antarctica) Australia *Chapel Hill, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane *Chapel Hill, South Australia, in the Mount Barker council area Canada * Chapel Hill, Ottawa, a neighbo ... and Chuwar. Councillors for Pullenvale Ward Results References City of Brisbane wards {{Brisbane-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal National Party Of Queensland
The Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) is a major political party in Queensland, Australia. It was formed in 2008 by a merger of the Queensland divisions of the Liberal Party and the National Party. At a federal level and in most other states, the two parties remain distinct and operate as a Coalition. The LNP is a division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and an affiliate of the National Party of Australia. After suffering defeat at its first election in 2009 the LNP won government for the first time at the 2012 election, winning 78 out of 89 seats, a record majority in the unicameral Parliament of Queensland. Campbell Newman became the first LNP Premier of Queensland. The Newman Government was subsequently defeated by the Labor Party at the 2015 election. History Background Since the 1970s, the Queensland branches/divisions of the National Party and Liberal Party had found themselves in frequent competition with one another for seats in Queensland. The Liberal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kholo, Queensland
Kholo is a rural locality in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kholo had a population of 396 people. Geography Kholo is an outer locality of Brisbane, located south-west of the Brisbane CBD. History On Friday 23 June 1876, the Kholo Bridge across the Brisbane River to Chuwar () was officially opened. Due to a period of heavy rain, the river was swollen and the deck of the new bridge was below the surface of the river. Determined to have a first official crossing of the bridge, a group of men pulled a buggy containing a "courageous lady" across the submerged bridge and Mrs Foote smashed a bottle against a bridge post and named the bridge. A banquet followed the ceremony. Kholo Provisional School opened circa 1 January 1877. It was described in June 1877 as being in a barn in an inconvenient location. In June 1878, the local residents were advocating for a more permanent state school. In September 1883, a report describes the school as having "most irregular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Queensland Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division), branded as Liberal Queensland, was the Queensland division of the Liberal Party of Australia until 2008. It was initially formed in October 1943 as the Queensland People's Party (QPP), which then absorbed the disbanded Queensland branch of the United Australia Party in 1944. In 1945, the QPP had an agreement with the newly formed Liberal Party, where in the "federal sphere", QPP would be the Queensland division of the Liberal Party and would run its candidates under the Liberal Party banner in federal elections. However, in the "state sphere", it would continue to exist individually under its own banner. In July 1949, the QPP was renamed to reflect its status as the Queensland division of the Liberal Party. Based predominantly in Brisbane and other cities in Queensland, from 1957 it held power as the junior party in a coalition with the state Country Party, later the National Party, until 1983 when the Liberals broke away ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuwar, Queensland
Chuwar is a town and suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich and a locality of the City of Brisbane in South East Queensland, Australia. In the , the suburb of Chuwar had a population of 2,244 people. Geography Chuwar is north of the Ipswich central business district, west of Brisbane by road. The suburb is known for its leafy streets and solid brick homes which line Allawah Road, Lansdowne Way and Brodzig Road. History The town takes its name from the parish, which in turn was named in October 1848 by surveyor James Warner. The origin of the name was not recorded by Warner but it has been suggested that it was the Ugarapul name for the district or a corruption of it. On Friday 23 June 1876, the Kholo Bridge across the Brisbane River to Kholo () was officially opened. Due to a period of heavy rain, the river was swollen and the deck of the new bridge was below the surface of the river. Determined to have a first official crossing of the bridge, a group of men pull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Hill, Queensland
Chapel Hill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Chapel Hill had a population of 10,113 people. Geography Chapel Hill is primarily a residential suburb, consisting of mostly detached housing and backs on to the Mt Coot-tha reserve and walking tracks. History The suburb takes its name from the Primitive Methodist chapel built on the top of the hill in 1874. The ground for the Primitive Methodist Church in Indooroopilly (as Chapel Hill was then known) was officially broken in a ceremony on Monday 10 November 1873. The church opened on Sunday 28 March 1875. The current church was built in 1955, with the historic church retained as a community facility. As the church is located on a highpoint within the area, the suburb takes its name from this church on the hill. On 20 November 1922, the Queensland Governor Matthew Nathan officially opened the Industrial School for Boys on a site between Moggill Road and Jerrang Road (now 724 Moggill Road, ). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Brookfield, Queensland
Upper Brookfield is an outer western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Upper Brookfield had a population of 785 people. Geography Upper Brookfield is a mountainous rural suburb consisting of acreage properties. It is by road west of the Brisbane GPO. Marshalls Flat is a plain () alongside Moggill Creek in the centre of the suburb. It named after husband and wife Arthur John (Jack) Marshall (1913-2003) and Kathleen Bell Marshall (1915-2005), owners and farmer of the flats from 1944 to 1976. History Upper Brookfield is named after its neighbouring suburb Brookfield. The name came into use about 1910 but it was not officially named and bounded until 11 August 1975. In 1914 there was a sale of 23 fruit farm blocks of land in the vicinity of Upper Brookfield Road and its junctions with Kittani Street and Pacey Road (near the Upper Brookfield State School, ). It was called the Brookfield Fruit Farms Estate and was marketed by W.R. Moon. The land w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinjarra Hills, Queensland
Pinjarra Hills is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pinjarra Hills had a population of 606 people. Geography Pinjarra Hills is by road south-west of the Brisbane central business district on the northern bank of the Brisbane River. Most of the land between Pullenvale Road and the river () is the University of Queensland's Pinjarra Hills campus. The campus is a research facility. Apart from the university camps, the suburb is rural residential. Moggill Road is the main road route through the suburb. History The suburb was named after Pinjarra Road which travels through the suburb. However, the origin of the road name is unknown. In the 1860s Patrick Mayne purchased the land now owned by the University of Queensland. Following the death of Patrick Mayne, it was inherited by his son William. In 1922 William's death resulted in his siblings Dr James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Miss Mary Emelia Mayne inheriting the land. In 1923 the Mayne sibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moggill, Queensland
Moggill is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Moggill had a population of 4,641 people. Geography Moggill is about by from the Brisbane GPO. The Brisbane River bounds the suburb to the east, south and west with two of its reaches: * Cockatoo Reach () * Redbank Reach () Priors Pocket is a neighbourhood in the south-east of the suburb (). It is also known as Toocoobah. It was gazetted on16 August 1975 and was named Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, who was an early land holder freeholder in the area. It comprises a mixture of small-lot and acreage residential homes along with a small number of remaining farms. Moggill is located in the Parish of Moggill within the County of Stanley, Queensland. History Garumngar (also known as Dalla, Garumga. See also Wakka Wakka related languages/dialects) is a language of the Upper Brisbane River catchment. The Garumngar language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Ipswi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Manchester, Queensland
Lake Manchester is both a lake in the City of Brisbane and the surrounding locality which is split between the City of Brisbane and Somerset Region in Queensland, Australia. It is west of the CBD. In the , Lake Manchester had a population of 23 people. Geography The locality is mostly undeveloped mountainous terrain of the south west D'Aguilar Range. The north of the suburb is part of the D'Aguilar National Park and most of the southern parts belong to the Brisbane State Forest. The western part of the locality in Somerset Region is rural land, predominantly use for grazing on native vegetation. History The locality is named after the lake which was created by the Lake Manchester Dam constructed between 1912 and 1916. It is named after civil engineer, Ernest James Theodore Manchester, who was the President of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board from 1909 to 1928. In the , Lake Manchester had a population of 23 people. Education There are no schools in Lake Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenmore Hills, Queensland
Kenmore Hills is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kenmore Hills had a population of 2,402 people. Geography Kenmore Hills is by road by the Brisbane GPO. Although the northern part of the suburb is on the foothills of Mount Coot-tha, there is only one named peak in the suburb: Carver Hill in the south-east () at above sea level. History Kenmore Hills originally formed part of Brookfield, but in 1969 the name was changed to Kenmore Hills, based on the neighbouring suburb of Kenmore. In 1932 Father Robert Bartlett Bates, the rector of All Saints Anglican Church at Wickham Terrace purchased a house at 139 Brookfield Road () to establish St John's Home for Aged Men, which subsequently relocated to West Toowong (where it continues to operate as St John's Residential Aged Care Home). On 12 May 1934 the Anglican Church opened St Christopher's Lodge, a home for boys. It was officially opened by James Francis Maxwell, the Member of the Queensland L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullenvale, Queensland
Pullenvale is a western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pullenvale had a population of 3,179 people. Geography Mount Elphinstone is in the north of the locality () and rises to above sea level. Pullenvale is by road south-west of the Brisbane GPO. Located in the southern foothills of Mount Elphinstone, Pullenvale features rolling hills and areas of bush land, and is spread over an area of approximately . Apart from a small area of undeveloped land in the north-west of the locality, the land usage is predominantly rural residential housing. History In 1827, Mount Elphinstone was named by botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham as Mount Halsey, which also appears on some maps as Mount Helsey and Mount Kelsey. There are a number of theories about the original of the name ''Pullenvale''. One theory from a 1920s newspaper is that it is named after early timbergetter, George Pullen; however, no land records have been found to confirm this. Give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenmore, Queensland
Kenmore is a riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kenmore had a population of 9,675 people. Geography Kenmore is on the Brisbane River by road south-west of the Brisbane GPO. The suburb is bounded to the north-east by Cubberla Creek, to the south-east by the Centenary Highway, to the south by the Brisbane River and to the west by Moggill Creek. Mosquito Island is a island in the Brisbane River in the south of the suburb (), but there is no longer a channel separating it from the mainland. The island is undeveloped. History European settlement began in the 1840s and was part of a sheep and cattle run which extended from Milton to Mount Crosby. In the 1850s land was released to new settlers from Britain in 15 to 20 acre lots. During the 1850s and 1860s areas around Kenmore and Brookfield provided Brisbane with timber and there were also small farms producing a variety of crops.Kenmore and District Historical SocietyKenmore Local Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
