QUEENSLAND STATE THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA SITUATED BORDERED THE NORTHERN TERRITORY SOUTH AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES SOUTH THE CORAL SEA PACIFIC OCEAN POPULATION CONCENTRATED ALONG THE COAST PARTICULARLY SOUTH EAST THE STATE WORLDS SIXTH LARGEST ENTITY AREA THE CAPITAL BRISBANE AUSTRALIAS THE SUNSHINE STATE LARGEST CITIES THE NATIONS LARGEST ECONOMY ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS THE FIRST EUROPEAN DUTCH NAVIGATOR WILLEM JANSZOON THE WEST COAST CAPE YORK PENINSULA WEIPA LIEUTENANT JAMES COOK CLAIMED THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA FOR THE KINGDOM GREAT BRITAIN THE COLONY GOVERNOR ARTHUR PHILLIP SYDNEY THAT TIME VICTORIA TASMANIA DECADES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PENAL COLONY BY JOHN PENAL TRANSPORTATION CEASED FREE SETTLEMENT HONOUR QUEEN VICTORIA SIGNED LETTERS PATENT OF JUNE QUEENSLAND DAY QUEEN BRITAIN MONARCH CHOSE EPONYMOUS NAME LOCAL PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER JOHN DUNMORE LANG JAMES COOK THE FEDERATION OF THE HISTORY OF THOUSANDS INDIGENOUS EVENTFUL TIMES AUSTRALIAN REGION PORTUGUESE FRENCH NAVIGATORS FRONTIER WARFARE EUROPEAN SETTLERS INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS SETTLEMENT EXPLOITATION CHEAP KANAKA LABOUR THE SOUTH PACIFIC FORCED BLACKBIRDING THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY ORIGIN FORMAL ORGANISATION THE TOWN BARCALDINE THE SYMBOLIC BIRTHPLACE MARKED THE ANNIVERSARY OF CREATION COLONY NEW SOUTH RARE RECORD SETTLER NORTH QUEENSLAND SEEN PHOTOGRAPHIC GLASS TAKEN IN RICHARD DAINTREE THE COLLECTION THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF OCCUPATION THOUGHT BOAT LAND BRIDGE TORRES STRAIT DIVIDED LANGUAGE THE LAST ICE AGE LANDSCAPE ARID FOOD THE WORLDS FIRST THE LAND HOSPITABLE HIGH RAINFALL EASTERN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS THE SITE THE WESTERN SHORE CAPE YORK THIS WAS LANDING REPORTED CONTACT ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN THE REGION PORTUGUESE EXPLORERS LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE TORRES PRIOR THE ARRIVAL COOK INSTRUCTION KING GEORGE III ENGLAND POSSESSION ISLAND NAMING DECLINED SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC CONTROVERSY REGARDING ORIGINS SOURCES BRITISH SETTLERS THEORY CONTRADICTED SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE MARINERS ARNHEM LAND JOHN OXLEY BRITISH NORTH SCOUT POSSIBLE GLADSTONE PORT CURTIS MORETON BAY MORETON THE BRISBANE RIVER THE SETTLEMENT EDENGLASSIE THE CURRENT LOCATION BRISBANE CITY CENTRE EDMUND LOCKYER DISCOVERED OUTCROPS COAL THE BANKS UPPER BRISBANE RIVER TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS CLOSURE PENAL PORT OF MARYBOROUGH WOOL FREE IMMIGRANT SHIP ARRIVE ARTEMISIA LIGHTHOUSE CAPE MORETON SOMETIMES WAR EXTERMINATION ABORIGINES COLONIAL THE FRONTIER BLOODY THE OTHER AUSTRALIAN COLONIES ALLIES MELANESIAN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CASUALTIES ABORIGINAL PEOPLE NATIVE POLICE FORCE EMPLOYED QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION MARTHA FRASERS HORNET BANK STATION DAWSON RIVER ELEVEN MASSACRE COLONISTS AUTHOR ESTIMATES WOMEN AND CHILDREN DIED THE HANDS NATIVE POLICE PUBLIC MEETING CONSIDER SEPARATION OF QUEENSLAND PROCLAMATION READ GEORGE BOWEN GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND ELECTION ROBERT HERBERT BOWENS PRIVATE SECRETARY PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT RATHER SPENDING CROWN RAIL LINE IPSWICH GRANDCHESTER ECONOMY JAMES NASH GOLD MARY RIVER GYMPIE SPARKING SMALLER SCALE THE GOLD RUSHES PERIOD TILL THE EARLY LABOURERS KANAKAS NEIGHBOURING PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS WORK IN SUGAR CANE PEOPLE KIDNAPPED PROCESS PRESS EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS INDENTURED LABOUR THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF THE WHITE POLICY SAW FOREIGN WORKERS DEPORTED THE PACIFIC ISLAND ACT OF ISLANDER DECREASE HALF SUBSEQUENTLY WOMEN VOTED IN STATE ELECTIONS THE FIRST TIME THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR POLIO THE WORLD TODAY WORLD WAR MAJOR IMPACT IN WORLD MAJOR AIRLINE QANTAS SERVE OUTBACK THE UPPER HOUSE BECOMING THE ONLY CANE TOADS HAWAII ATTEMPT REDUCE NUMBER FRENCHS CANE GREYBACK CANE BEETLE THE ROOTS INTEGRAL COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OIL MOONIE AVAILABILITY AIR QUEENSLAND WORK LIVE FOR TO THIS DAY ECONOMIC THE THIRD POPULOUS ANNIVERSARY INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS EVENTS THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ICONS QUEENSLAND PREMIER ANNA BLIGH THE CREATION MONUMENTS SURVEY POINTS THE MANY BORDERS TO THE NORTH BOIGU ISLAND THE COAST NEW GUINEA REPRESENTING ABSOLUTE NORTHERN EXTREME TOWARD WEST PENINSULAS NORTHERN QUEENSLAND THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA ARM LONGITUDE THE SOUTHWEST NORTHEASTERN CORNER IN THE SOUTH BORDER WATERSHED POINT DANGER DUMARESQ RIVER THE RIVER SECTION DUMARESQ LATITUDE MINOR HISTORICAL BELOW THE PARALLEL THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL KILOMETRES ROAD THE NEW SOUTH WALES OFFICIALLY REGIONS GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS OF NOTE THE ATHERTON TABLELAND GRANITE BELT THE CHANNEL COUNTRY FAR SOUTHWEST AREAS OF NATURAL SUNSHINE COAST THE GOLD COAST POPULAR BEACHES BUNYA MOUNTAINS THE GREAT DIVIDING RANGE WATERFALLS PICNIC AREAS CARNARVON GORGE WHITSUNDAY ISLANDS HINCHINBROOK ISLAND WORLD HERITAGE PRESERVATION AUSTRALIAN FOSSIL MAMMAL SITES RIVERSLEIGH THE GULF GONDWANA RAINFORESTS OF FRASER ISLAND GREAT BARRIER REEF LAMINGTON NATIONAL PARK WET TROPICS OF QUEENSLAND VARIATION CLIMATE SUMMERS INLAND MONSOON WET SEASON THE FAR NORTH TEMPERATE COASTAL STRIP ELEVATED EXPERIENCE TEMPERATURES FREEZ