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Sexton, Queensland
Sexton is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Sexton had a population of 161 people. History The Nanango railway line The Nanango railway line was a narrow-gauge branch railway located in Queensland, Australia. On 31 October 1882, parliament approved the construction of a branch line from Theebine (then called Kilkivan Junction) west to Kilkivan after gold ... opened in December 1886 as far as Kilkivan. Carmyle Provisional School opened on 30 July 1906. On 1 January 1909 it became Carmyle State School. In closed in 1910, but reopened in 1911. It closed in December 1963. Sexton Provisional School opened on 1913. On 1 December 1914 it became Sexton State School. In 1922 it became a half-time provisional school in conjunction with Miva Provisional School (meaning the two schools shared a single teacher). Sexton Provisional School closed in 1924. In the Sexton had a population of 161 people. References Gympie Region Localities ... [...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] |
Electoral District Of Gympie ...
Gympie is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland The electorate is centred on the city of Gympie and stretches north to Rainbow Beach and as far south to Pomona. The seat is currently held by Tony Perrett of the Liberal National Party. The district's most famous former member is Andrew Fisher, who later became Prime Minister of Australia. Members for Gympie Election results References External links * {{Electoral districts of Queensland Gympie Gympie ( ) is a city and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Wide Bay-Burnett District, Gympie is about north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city lies on the Mary River (Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Wide Bay
The Division of Wide Bay is an Australian electoral division in the state of Queensland. 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 federal election. Wide Bay is located in south east Queensland and includes the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, Noosa, all of Fraser Island, and inland areas extending west to Murgon. Notable representatives have included three time Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, who was the seat's first member. However, it has been a conservative seat for most of its history; only one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miva, Queensland
Miva is a locality split between the Gympie Region and the Fraser Coast Region in Queensland, Australia. > In the Miva had a population of 57 people. Geography Miva's eastern boundary is the Mary River. Its western boundary is the Bauple-Woolooga Road. Miva is almost entirely within the Gympie Region apart from a small section in the north-east of the locality which is part of the Fraser Coast Region. The lower parts of the locality near the river and along the valleys (elevation 20–70 metres are used for farming). The hilly land to the west rises to peaks of 100 metres and the hilly land to the south-east rises to a peak of 150 metres; the hilly land is undeveloped bushland. The former Kingaroy branch railway passed through Miva from the east to the south-west; Miva was served by the now-abandoned Miva railway station (.) History The name ''Miva'' is taken from the name of a pastoral run belonging to Gideon Scott, a pastoralist in March 1851. It is thought to be an Abori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotchy Pocket, Queensland
Scotchy Pocket is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ..., Australia. In the , Scotchy Pocket had a population of 74 people. History Scotchy Pocket Provisional School opened on 1900. On 1 January 1909 it became Scotchy Pocket State School. The school closed in 1920 due to low student numbers. It reopened in 1938 and finally closed circa 1944. It was located on Scotchy Pocket Road (approx ). References Gympie Region Localities in Queensland {{GympieRegion-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curra, Queensland
Curra is a rural residential locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Curra had a population of 1,920 people. Geography Curra is in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland. It also belongs to the non-functional administrative unit known as the County of March. The Mary River forms the western boundary, and Curra Creek is part of the northern boundary. To the east of the locality is a large portion of Curra State Forest. Mount Corella is in the south of the locality () rising to . The Bruce Highway passes through the locality, entering from the south-east (Bells Bridge) and exiting to the north (Gunalda). The North Coast railway line pases through the locality, entering from the south-west ( Corella) and exiting to the north ( Scotchy Pocket / Gunalda) with two railway stops (from north to south): * Curra railway station () *Harvey's Siding () Curra is zoned rural/residential with working pastoral farms and small acreages. History Curra ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bells Bridge, Queensland
Bells Bridge is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Bells Bridge had a population of 197 people. Geography The Bruce Highway passes through the locality from the east to the north-east, where it has a junction with the Wide Bay Highway which passes through the location to the north-west. The Mary River flows through the locality from south-east to north-east, eventually flowing into the Great Sandy Strait. Most of the locality is the Brooyar State Forest, except for the eastern and north-eastern parts which are farmland supporting cropping and grazing. History The locality presumably takes its name from the Bell's Bridge built at O'Leary's Crossing over the Mary River, which was opened by the Minister for Lands, Joshua Thomas Bell, on Thursday 28 May 1908. The bridge was funded by the Widgee and Kilkivan Shire Councils, the Queensland Government and other public donations. It was named after Bell for the support he had given them in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Wonga, Queensland
Lower Wonga is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Lower Wonga had a population of 344 people. Geography The locality is predominantly flat cleared freehold land (80–100 metres above sea level) used for grazing, apart from an unnamed peak of 450 metres in the far south-west of the locality. Widgee Creek (a tributary of the Mary River) meanders from south to north through the east part of the locality. The Wide Bay Highway passes from east to west through the northern part of the locality. History Wonga State School opened on 27 January 1914 and was renamed Wonga Lower State School in 1918. The school closed in 1968. The school building was relocated to Queen's Park in Gympie where it was used for Scout Cubs. In the 2011 census, Lower Wonga had a population of 498 people. In the Lower Wonga had a population of 344 people. In April 2017, a company SolarQ announced plans to build the Lower Wonga Solar Farm, a photovoltaic power stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woolooga, Queensland
Woolooga is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Woolooga had a population of 247 people. The town is located in the Gympie Region local government area, north of the state capital, Brisbane. Geography The town is located in the south of the locality. The railway line from Theebine to Nanango passes from the east to the south-west through the locality, but the line is no longer operating. The town was served by the Woolooga railway station () while the eastern part was served by the Boowoogum railway station (), both of which are now abandoned. The Wide Bay Creek meanders from the south-west of the locality to the east. History Around 1848, John Murray decided to become a pastoral squatter and chose to go to the frontier region of Wide Bay-Burnett in the north of the colony of New South Wales to obtain land. Murray occupied the Walooga run about 40 kilometers west of Gympie. To the south was Widgee Widgee taken up ... [...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] |
Gympie Region
The Gympie Region is a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, the state capital. It is between the Sunshine Coast and Hervey Bay and centred on the town of Gympie. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shires of Cooloola and Kilkivan and part of the Shire of Tiaro. The Regional Council, which governs the Region, has an estimated operating budget of A$50 million. History ''Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi)'' is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gubbi Gubbi country. The Gubbi Gubbi language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Sunshine Coast Region and Gympie Region, particularly the towns of Caloundra, Noosa Heads, Gympie and extending north towards Maryborough and south to Caboolture''.'' Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Gympie Region existed as four distinct local government areas: * the Shire of Cooloola; ** the City of Gympie; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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