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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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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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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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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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Hughenden, a rural town, is situated on the Flinders River 320 km south-west of Townsville. In 1861-62 two search parties for the Burke and Wills expedition, the Landsborough and Frederick Waler expeditions, reported favourably on the pastoral prospects around the Flinders River and the Jardine Valley.

Several pastoralists set out for the district. The first of them, Ernest Henry, took up five pastoral runs, one of them named Hughenden after his grandfather’s property in Buckinghamshire, England. In 1877 a township was surveyed and named after Henry’s pastoral station.

Somewhat in advance of the railway reaching the district, Hughenden was a prosperous pastoral area. By 1882 Hughenden had a court house, two hotels, stores, a hospital, a post office, a school (1880) and a Jockey Club. It was the administrative centre of the Hughenden local government division, separated from the Doonmunya division in 1882.

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Cunnamulla (Aboriginal meaning “long stretch of water”) is a small town that lies on the Warrego River in South West Queensland. It is situated at the intersection of the Mitchell Highway and the Balonne Highway.

The original indigenous inhabitants of the area were the Kunja. The area’s first European explorer was Thomas Mitchell who passed through the region in 1846. A settlement arose here because there was a reliable waterhole where two major stock routes intersected.

The town itself came into being in the late 19th century as a coach stop for Cobb and Co coaches. A town survey was conducted in 1868, the same year a courthouse was built. A railway to the town was completed in 1899.

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Bundaberg Court House is a heritage-listed former court house (1882-1958) and former police station (1958-1997) at Quay Street, Bundaberg, Queensland. It is a rendered masonry and timber building constructed between 1882 and 1884.

The township of Bundaberg increased in both demographic size and political influence during the late nineteenth century, stimulating the demand for public buildings that reflected this affluence. Originally designed as a smaller timber building, a larger brick building was the resultant design from the Department of Public Works and Housing, more befitting to the political importance and economic stature of Bundaberg.

The court house was designed by George St Paul Connolly, acting Queensland Colonial Architect in the Queensland Department of Public Works. Following the “T” shape design developed during the nineteenth century, the major consideration in the design and planning of the building was the allowance for the correct movement of people in

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Boulia is a tiny settlement on the edge of the desert. The name of the town means either ‘waterhole’ or ‘clear water’ in the language of the local Pitta Pitta Aborigines.

The first Europeans to pass through the area were the ill-fated Burke and Wills in 1861. A kind of town was first settled in 1876. It was at the western limit of pastoral land and was nothing more than a collection of tents.

By 1879 there was a store at a waterhole. This was the beginning of the town. The end of the 1880s saw the town as the administrative centre for the far northwest of Queensland with a courthouse, police barracks and post office.

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The 1982 Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane, Queensland from 30 September to 9 October 1982. The Opening Ceremony was held at the QEII Stadium (named for Elizabeth II), in the Brisbane suburb of Nathan. The QEII Stadium was also the venue which was used for the athletics and archery competitions during the Games. Other events were held at the purpose-built Sleeman Sports Complex in Chandler.

The Chairman of the 1982 Commonwealth Games was Sir Edward Williams. The 1982 Commonwealth Games Logo was designed by Paulo Ferreira, who was the winner of a nationwide competition held in 1978. The symbol is derived from the form of a bounding kangaroo. The three bands, forming stylized A’s (for Australia), are in colours which are common to flags of many Commonwealth countries.

Matilda the kangaroo mascot for the 1982 Commonwealth Games was represented by a cartoon kangaroo, and a gigantic

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