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Tully is a town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland. The Tully River was named after Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully in the 1870s. The town of Tully was named after the river when it was surveyed off when the sugar mill was erected in 1924.

Tully is one of the larger towns of the Cassowary Coast Region. The economic base of the region is agriculture; sugar cane and banana being the dominant crops grown. The sugar cane grown at the many farms in the district is processed locally at the Tully Sugar Mill to give raw sugar which is shipped elsewhere for refinement.

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Longreach is a town in Central West Queensland. It is named after the “long reach” of the Thomson River on which it is situated. The town was gazetted in 1887, and the railway reached the town in 1892, causing the population to grow. The main industries of the area are cattle, sheep and, more recently, tourism.

A number of Queensland towns have their streets named to a theme. In Longreach, the streets are named after species of birds, with the streets running east-west named after water birds and those running north-south after land birds. The main business street is called Eagle Street. Other streets honour Hudson Fysh, an Australian aviation pioneer, and Sir James Walker, a farmer and long-serving mayor of the former Longreach Shire Council.

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Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia’s sugar cane. The city was named after John Mackay, who led an expedition into the Pioneer Valley in 1860.

One of the first white settlers to travel through the Mackay region was Captain James Cook, who reached the Mackay coast on 1 June 1770 and named several landmarks, including Cape Palmerston, Slade Point, and Cape Hillsborough. It was during this trip that the Endeavour’s botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, briefly recorded seeing Aborigines.

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Barcaldine is a small town and locality in Central West Queensland which played a major role in the Australian labour movement. Major industries are sheep and beef cattle rearing. The streets in Barcaldine are named after different types of trees.

The town takes its name from a sheep station called Barcaldine Downs, which was established in 1863 by Donald Cameron, whose family property in Ayrshire, Scotland was named for Barcaldine, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The post office opened in Barcaldine in 1886, and the first state school opened in 1887.

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Blackall is a small town and rural locality in Central West Queensland. The dominant industry in the area is grazing. Blackall claims to be the home of the original Black Stump, which marks the original Astro Station established in 1887. Places west of this point are said to be ‘beyond the black stump’.

The region was explored in 1846 by explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell and his party. Blackall was named by Surveyor Abraham H. May after Sir Samuel Blackall, the second Governor of Queensland. During the 1860s the town developed as a service centre for the surrounding pastoral properties.

Blackall was one of the first Queensland towns to sink an artesian bore in 1885, which now supplies the town with water from the Great Artesian Basin. The water temperature is 58 degrees Celsius. There is an artesian spa bath at the aquatic centre and locally produced

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