Bonshaw is a rural

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in the

Goondiwindi Region The Goondiwindi Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia along the state's border with New South Wales. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas which dat ...

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, Australia. It is on the

border of Queensland Queensland is the north-eastern state of Australia and has land borders with three other Australian states and territories: New South Wales (to the south), South Australia (to the south-west) and Northern Territory (to the west). To the north o ...

and

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. In the , Bonshaw had a population of 25 people.

Geography

The

Dumaresq River The Dumaresq River ( Indigenous ) is a perennial stream of the Macintyre catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales and the Darling Downs region of Que ...

(sometimes called the Severn River) forms the western boundary of the locality and also the state border with

. The Bonshaw Weir is across the river (). The land use is predominantly

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to feed conversion ratio, convert the otherwise indigestible (by human diges ...

on native vegetation with crop growing along the Dumaresq River.

History

The locality takes its name from an early pastoral run visible on an 1883 map, but appears in newspaper mentions as early as 1845. Land in Bonshaw was open for selection on 17 April 1877; were available. Construction commenced on the Bonshaw Weir on 22 June 1949, but construction was far slower than expected and the costs increased significantly over original estimates. It was completed in May 1953.

Demographics

In the , Bonshaw had a population of 40 people. In the , Bonshaw had a population of 25 people.

Education

There are no schools in Bonshaw. The nearest government primary and secondary school is Texas State School (Early Childhood to Year 10) in

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to the north-west. There are no schools offering education to Year 12 nearby; the alternatives 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 ...

and boarding school.

References

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