Bulloo Downs is a rural

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in the

Shire of Bulloo The Shire of Bulloo ( ) is a Local government in Australia, local government area in South West Queensland, Australia. On 17 April 2020 the Queensland Government reorganised the nine localities in the Shire, resulting in six localities by makin ...

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, Australia. It is on the Queensland border with

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. In the , Bulloo Downs had "no people or a very low population". On 17 April 2020 the

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reorganised the nine localities in the Shire, resulting in six localities. It included Bulloo Downs losing a portion of its western land to the locality of Cameron Corner while gaining a small portion from the south of the former Bullawarra (the rest being incorporated into

Thargomindah Thargomindah (frequently shortened to Thargo) is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. The town of Thargomindah is the administrative centre for the Shire of Bulloo. In the , the locality of Thargomindah h ...

). The area of Bulloo Downs decreased from to .

Geography

Adelaide Gate is a border crossing point on the Adelaide Gate Road/Track between Queensland and New South Wales ().

History

One group of the

Burke and Wills expedition The Burke and Wills expedition (originally called the Victorian Exploring Expedition) was an exploration expedition organised by the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) in Australia in 1860–61. The exploration party initially consisted of ninet ...

camped in Bulloo Downs in 1861; three men from the group died and were buried there. This expedition provided information about the suitability of the land for pastoral purposes and the first recorded settlement was

Bulloo Downs Station Bulloo Downs Station, most commonly referred to as Bulloo Downs, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Shire of Bulloo, Queensland, Australia. It is located on the traditional lands of the Bitjara. It is situated about ...

taken up by Jones, Sullivan and Molesworth Green in 1864. The locality takes its name from the Bulloo Downs Station. ''Bulloo'' is an Aboriginal word from the Kamilaroi language meaning ''slow''. On 28 January 1919, the

placed restrictions on the border crossing at Adelaide Gate to prevent the spread of the

Spanish flu The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest docum ...

into Queensland, which were enforced by the

Queensland Police The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto ...

. A medical screening process was used to determine if Queensland residents could safely return to the state. On 17 April 2020 the

reorganised the nine localities in the Shire, resulting in six localities. It included Bulloo Downs losing a small portion of its western land to the locality of Cameron Corner while gaining a small portion from the south of the former Bullawarra (the rest being incorporated into

Demographics

In the , Bulloo Downs had "no people or a very low population". In the , Bulloo Downs had "no people or a very low population".

Heritage listings

Bulloo Downs has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...

sites, including: * Dr Ludwig Becker's Grave,

Bulloo River The Bulloo River is an isolated drainage system in western Queensland, central Australia. Its floodplain, which extends into northern New South Wales, is an important area for waterbirds when inundated. It comprises most of the Bulloo-Banc ...

Education

There are no schools in Bulloo Downs nor nearby. The options are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

or boarding school.

References

External links

{{Shire of Bulloo Shire of Bulloo Localities in Queensland