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The University of Queensland Gatton Campus was established in 1897 at Gatton as the Queensland Agricultural College. The College initially operated as a tertiary agricultural institution offering a basic practical and theoretical agricultural education for young men and short courses for farmers on specific topics, but from its inception, there was also an expectation that the College would be involved in agricultural research and experimentation.

In 1922, it was re-structured as the Gatton Agricultural High School and College. From 1927, the College also took students from the University of Queensland for a year of practical experience. During the Second World War, the College was used as a field hospital by the United State Army from 1942 to 1944.

After the war, it continued to operate as both a secondary and tertiary institution until the high school section was closed in 1962. In the 1960s the college began

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Labourer ‘set fire to court’

Brisbane, Thursday. – A 30-year-old unemployed labourer was alleged to have set fire to the Brisbane Supreme Court when he appeared in the City Magistrate’s Court today.

David Bertram Brooks, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody until Thursday. Bail was refused when the police prosecutor, Sub-Inspector C. J. Smith, said he considered that Brooks would abscond if granted bail.

Sub-Inspector Smith said it would be alleged that Brooks had been removed from a public toilet in the city at 3am on Sunday by a policeman. He had then gone to the Supreme Court and had opened the front door of the building.

Cupboard fire

He had gone into No 4 criminal court, where he had put some typing paper in a cupboard and lit it with a match. Then he had gone into No 1 civil court, on the first floor, and had

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Supreme Court Fire of 1968

In the early hours of 1 September 1968, as the building’s caretaker was doing his rounds, an unemployed alcoholic named David Brooks, slipped through the doors of Queensland’s historic law courts, designed by colonial architect F D G Stanley in the 1870s.

Resentful of the police and the justice system for his habitual arrests, Brooks made his way to the judges’ chambers, drove a knife into an associate’s desk and scribbled the note ‘judge not lest you be judged, sinner’. He then set the building alight.

By the time the fire was brought under control, much of the building was in ruins. The Supreme Court Library’s books were seriously damaged by the fire, smoke and water – as were the portraits hanging in the Judges’ Hall.

The arsonist was apprehended within three days of the fire, and convicted within three months of the crime.

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The Supreme Court of Queensland was founded on 7 August 1861. Initially, the Brisbane Supreme Court served as the Supreme Court for all of Queensland. As the colony’s population grew, two other courts were constructed.

The first sittings of the Northern Supreme Court were held at Bowen in 1874 and the Bowen Court House was built in 1880 in classical revival style. After the opening of the Central Supreme Court at Rockhampton in 1896, the Northern Supreme Court moved from Bowen to Townsville.

Although the Brisbane Supreme Court initially served the needs of the entire colony of Queensland, it did not occupy a purpose-built building until 1879. Until then, the Brisbane Court sat at the Old Convict Barracks in Queen Street, but they were in disrepair and several improvements were needed to allow the continued sitting of the Court.

Despite these improvements, by 1870 it had

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Origins of technical education 1881-1902

In 1882, a sub-committee of the North Brisbane School of Arts was formed to control the Brisbane Technical College and an annual grant of £600 was obtained from Parliament. The college had nine teachers who gave instruction in 11 subjects to 80 students. There was no systematic approach to courses of instruction.

By 1889 the College’s activities were made distinct from those of the School of Arts, and the work of instruction was placed under D.R. McConnel who systematised instruction and remained in control for 20 years. In 1892 a pound for pound subsidy was instituted, which meant that such classes as typewriting, shorthand and bookkeeping, which attracted large numbers of students and required little apparatus, were most profitable.

The Brisbane Technical College Incorporation Act of 1898 set up a council consisting of six Government representatives, which controlled the College for the next

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Origins of technical education 1881-1902

During the 1860s and 1870s, formal education in Queensland beyond primary level was conducted almost exclusively in grammar schools. These schools were expensive and thus available only to the wealthy. There were some individuals, however, who could not afford a grammar school education but were interested in further education which would provide a form of upward social mobility.

The middle-class liberals of the time encouraged such attitudes to education. In 1872 Charles Lilley, for example, urged that the North Brisbane School of Arts and Sciences should be used as a centre for teaching young mechanics and tradesmen the elements of the useful arts and sciences.

Lilley believed that such an education would lead to greater industrial efficiency and productivity and would also further the careers of these young men. Technical classes were established in that year but failed to continue beyond 1872.

It was

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In contrast to the restricted building program of the 1950s, the 1960s and 1970s was a boom construction period for the college. The Queensland Government made a commitment to upgrade facilities at the College and to replace the early timber buildings and Second World War timber and fibrous cement structures, with more substantial brick buildings.

The College gained autonomy from the Department of Education in 1967 and commence a major building program. Brisbane firm Bligh Jessup Brentnall was retained as architects and developed a site plan for the college, heralding the “red brick” era of its development.

Construction included halls of residence, lecture theatres and schools, a new administration block, and new animal facilities. A new gymnasium was erected in 1968, funded by the College Welfare Fund and Queensland Government subsidy, and was dedicated in 1969 as the War Memorial Gymnasium.

A new Commonwealth government education policy in

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Architectural models are used by architects for a range of purposes:

– Ad hoc models, or sketch models, are sometimes made to study the interaction of volumes, different viewpoints, or concepts during the design process. They may also be useful in explaining a complicated or unusual design to builders, or as a focus for discussion between designers and consultants such as architects, engineers and town planners.

– Presentation models can be used to exhibit, visualise or sell a final design. Models are also used as show pieces, for instance as a feature in the reception of a building, or as part of a museum exhibition such as scale replicas of historical buildings.

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Happy Valley is a suburb of Mount Isa in the City of Mount Isa, Queensland. It is bounded to the west by the Great Northern railway, to the north by Twenty-third Avenue, and to the east roughly by the Leichhardt River. The suburb was named in September 1973 and is the ironic name given to the area by the population during the Great Depression, when a shanty town existed in the area.

Isa Mines State School opened on 3 May 1932 with 79 students and head-teacher Mr Phail and assistant teacher Miss Bennett. The original school building had 2 rooms with verandahs on the front and one side. By the end of the first month there were 99 students.

Rising student numbers necessitated the use of the verandahs as classrooms resulting in the addition of two more schoolrooms and an office in 1933. In 1938 a fifth

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The establishment and operation of Queensland Agricultural College was an important commitment by the Queensland Government to agricultural advancement. The development of the dairying industry was an early priority as was the introduction of new agricultural methods and technologies. For instance, in 1897, the first cutting of a crop with a “Scientific Harvester” to produce ensilage was watched by a 200 strong crowd of farmers from as far away as Nanango.

As well as providing a basic practical and theoretical agricultural education for young men, the college also offered short courses for farmers on specific topics such as cheese making, milk testing, bee-keeping and sugar farming. The college also held short courses for teachers who were then able to offer basic agricultural education in schools across the state.

For the first 25 years of its existence, the Queensland Agricultural College was the responsibility of the Department of

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