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Thulimbah, Queensland
Thulimbah is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Thulimbah had a population of 351 people. It borders New South Wales. Geography Thulimbah is located on the Darling Downs. The town is on the New England Highway New England Highway is an long highway in Australia running from Yarraman, Queensland, Yarraman, north of Toowoomba, Queensland, at its northern end to Hexham, New South Wales, Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle, New South Wales, ..., from the state capital, Brisbane. History The name of the town derives from the name of the railway station used from 1883, meaning "place of water" in an Indigenous Australian, Aboriginal language. Bentinck State School opened on 28 September 1914. On 30 August 1916 it was renamed Thulimbah State School. A preschool was added in 1976. There was originally another district in Queensland called Thulimbah, which was a source of confusion to many peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
