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Scrubby Mountain, Queensland
Scrubby Mountain is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Scrubby Mountain had a population of 203 people. Geography Scrubby Mountain has the following mountains (from north to south) * Scrubby Mountain () rising to above sea level * Scrubby Mountain South () * Gentlemans Seat () Demographics In the , Scrubby Mountain had a population of 164 people. In the , Scrubby Mountain had a population of 203 people. Education There are no schools in Scrubby Mountain. The nearest government primary schools are Pittsworth State School in neighbouring Pittsworth Pittsworth is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Pittsworth had a population of 3,300 people. Geography Pittsworth township is south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, s ... to the north-east and Brookstead State School in Brookstead to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Pittsworth State Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00). Time is regulated by the individual states and territories of Australia, state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used between the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: * New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Jervis Bay Territory and the Australian Capital Territory switches to the Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT; UTC+11:00), and * South Australia switches to the Australian Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT; UTC+10:30). 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 mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsworth
Pittsworth is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Pittsworth had a population of 3,300 people. Geography Pittsworth township is south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, south-west of Toowoomba and is a service centre for the surrounding agricultural area. It is situated on the basalt upland section of the Darling Downs of southern Queensland which is undulating in nature and hosts mixed farming and intensive animal industries. Nearby is an alluvial flood plain, mostly leading directly to the north branch of the Condamine River. This flood plain provides some of the best quality grains and cotton in Australia and utilises overland flood flows for irrigation purposes. Climate History The first known people to have lived on the land surrounding Pittsworth are the Giabal people. Situated on the Darling Downs, Pittsworth owes its existence to that great explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowoomba
Toowoomba ( ), nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar', is a city on the border of South East Queensland and Darling Downs regions of Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital, Brisbane. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the was 142,163, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades. Toowoomba is the List of cities in Australia by population, second-most-populous inland city in Australia after the nation's capital, Canberra. It is also the second-largest regional centre in Queensland and is often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs, or the 4th biggest city in South East Queensland after Brisbane, Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, & the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast. The city serves as the council seat of the Toowoomba Region. Toowoomba, one of Australia's oldest inland cities, was founded in 1849 on the lands of the Giabal and Jarowair people. The city's central streets were named after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million. The Brisbane central business district, central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls over the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Condamine
Condamine is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Condamine takes in areas to the north-west, west and south of Toowoomba. It includes a number of small towns, such as Oakey, Pittsworth, Cambooya and Clifton. The district is named for the Condamine River which runs through it. Created for the 2009 state election, it was mostly made up of territory previously belonging to the abolished districts of Cunningham and Darling Downs. It also drew a small number of voters previously belonging to the district of Toowoomba South. Originally proposed to be named Dalby by the Electoral Commission of Queensland The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) is established under the ''Electoral Act 1992'' as an independent statutory authority, responsible for the impartial conduct of state and local government elections in Queensland. Functions The Commi ..., the name Condamine was adopted instead upon further review. There was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Groom
The Division of Groom is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Groom is an Agriculture in Australia, agricultural electorate located on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland. It includes the regional city of Toowoomba and Rural area, rural communities to the west and south. The current Parliament of Australia, MP is Garth Hamilton, a member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal 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 created in 1984 as essentially a reconfigured version of the old Division of Darling Downs, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarranlea, Queensland
Yarranlea is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yarranlea had a population of 82 people. Geography The South Western railway line enters the locality from the east (Pittsworth) and exits to the west ( Brookstead) with the locality served by two now-abandoned railway stations: * Murlaggan railway station () * Yarranlea railway station () History Hermitage Provisional School opened in 1883 and by 1900 had become Hermitage State School. In 1901, it was renamed Yarranlea State School. The school closed in 1977. It was at 4688 Gore Highway (). Note that there was another unrelated Hermitage State School near Warwick. In 1979, the school building was relocated to the Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education (now Griffith University Mount Gravatt campus) which is located in Mount Gravatt in Brisbane. There the building was initially used as a museum display school, then resumed as a primary school known as Old Yarranlea State School to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsworth, Queensland
Pittsworth is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Pittsworth had a population of 3,300 people. Geography Pittsworth township is south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, south-west of Toowoomba and is a service centre for the surrounding agricultural area. It is situated on the basalt upland section of the Darling Downs of southern Queensland which is undulating in nature and hosts mixed farming and intensive animal industries. Nearby is an alluvial flood plain, mostly leading directly to the north branch of the Condamine River. This flood plain provides some of the best quality grains and cotton in Australia and utilises overland flood flows for irrigation purposes. Climate History The first known people to have lived on the land surrounding Pittsworth are the Giabal people. Situated on the Darling Downs, Pittsworth owes its existence to that great explorer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Branch, Queensland (Toowoomba Region)
North Branch is a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , North Branch had a population of 48 people. Geography The Condamine River forms part of the locality's south-east border with Felton South before crossing the locality towards the west where it splits into two branches (). The southern branch remains known as the Condamine River and the northern branch is known as the Condamine River (north branch) and is presumably the origin of the locality name. The two branches rejoin on the boundary of Cecil Plains and Tipton () approximately to the north-west. The mountain Woolly Butt is in the north-east of the locality () rising to above sea level. The land use is predominantly crop growing with some grazing on native vegetation. History In 1877, of land was resumed from the North Branch pastoral run; it was offer for selection on 17 April 1877. The first North Branch State School opened circa 1878 at the North Branch homestead. It was . It c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kincora, Queensland
Kincora is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kincora had a population of 71 people. History Kincora Provisional School opened on 7 May 1883. On 1 January 1909, it became Kincora State School. It closed on 28 January 1963. It was on a site on the north-west corner of Janz Road (shown as Keene Road on some maps) and School Road (). Demographics In the , Kincora had a population of 57 people. In the , Kincora had a population of 71 people. Education There are no schools in Kincora. The nearest government primary schools are Brookstead State School in neighbouring Brookstead to the north-west and Pittsworth State School in Pittsworth Pittsworth is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Pittsworth had a population of 3,300 people. Geography Pittsworth township is south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, s ... to the north-east. The nearest government secondary s ... [...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. Postcodes in Australia, 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 of suburb (municipality outside of a big city). The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "neighbourhood" or "district", 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 boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowoomba Region
The Toowoomba Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) on the border of Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, the LGA was preceded by several other local government authorities with histories extending back to the early 1900s and beyond. In 2018–2019, it had a Australian dollar, A$491 million budget, of which A$316 million is for service delivery and A$175.13 million capital (infrastructure) budget. In the , the Toowoomba Region had a population of 173,204 people. History Prehistory Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Toowoomba Region existed as eight distinct local government areas: the City of Toowoomba and the Shires of Shire of Cambooya, Cambooya, Shire of Clifton, Clifton, Shire of Crows Nest, Crows Nest, Shire of Jondaryan, Jondaryan, Shire of Millmerran, Millmerran, Shire of Pittsworth, Pittsworth, and Shire of Rosalie, Rosalie. The City had its beginning in the Toowoomba Mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
