Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Architectural plan of the Court House, Townsville

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Townsville Magistrates Court is a heritage-listed former courthouse and now theatre at 81 Sturt Street, Townsville, Queensland. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1874 to 1876 by J & J Rooney. It is a single-storeyed brick building and took two years to complete due to a shortage of suitable brick clay.

The building functioned as a courthouse for almost 100 years. With the construction of new court facilities in Walker Street, the old structure was threatened with demolition. Community agitation saved the building and it was purchased by the Townsville City Council in the early 1970s. It is significant historically as evidence of the early consolidation of Townsville as a government administrative centre in northern Queensland, and in illustrating the early use of brick in Townsville.

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Architectural plans of the Court House, Rockhampton

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Rockhampton Courthouse complex comprises of several buildings which all form part of a significant group of buildings of the Government Reserve bounded by Fitzroy, East and Bolsover Streets, Rockhampton. The buildings all reflect the involvement of the Queensland Government in the development of the City of Rockhampton from the colonial period until the present day, in various areas such as the administration of justice, and the provision of government services within Rockhampton.

The booming economy of the Rockhampton region was to find an expression of its wealth in the public buildings constructed in the period of 1885-1910. An example of this is the Supreme Court building. To accommodate the increased needs of the judiciary a replacement court house was under design in the period of 1884. The architect was John James Clark, the Queensland Colonial Architect.

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Portrait of Wayne Keith Goss, Premier of Queensland

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Wayne Keith Goss (26 February 1951 – 10 November 2014) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996, becoming the first Labor Premier in over 32 years. Prior to entering politics, Goss was a solicitor, and after leaving politics he served as Chairman of the Queensland Art Gallery and Chairman of Deloitte Australia.

The Goss Government introduced social reforms such as decriminalising homosexuality, appointing Queensland’s first female minister in cabinet and first female Governor, abolishing the Queensland Police Special Branch and Imperial honours, and made provision to buy thousands of extra university places and hire thousands of new teachers.

After his retirement from politics, Goss served in a variety of community and business roles, including as an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and as a member of a business task force dealing with the aftermath of the 2010-11 Queensland floods.

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Immigrant education

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By the 1980s, migrants from all over the world had settled in Australia. Immigration rates peaked in 1988 when 254,000 people arrived in Australia. The nation’s approach to new migrants since the 1970s has been one of ‘multiculturalism’.

This meant that Australian society embraced various cultural groups, with their distinct languages, religions, and traditions and granted them equal status. This was in contrast to the previous policy of ‘assimilation’, which stipulated that migrants should abandon their cultures and languages and ‘blend in’ to the existing population.

Multiculturalism challenged traditional ideas about what it meant to be an Australian. Large numbers of migrants from places like Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South America and Africa filtered into Australia. Most people found that migrants enriched the Australian experience, enabling people to share cultural traditions like music, food and religion.

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