Queensland

sunshine, rain, scenery, beaches, agriculture, coal mining , mineral mining, cane toads (unfortunately), growing tropical fruit, bananas, pineapples, the Darling Downs is the growing food bowl of Queensland, wheat, vegetables, cattle.

• Aboriginal athlete and Olympic champion Cathy freeman was born in Mackay, Queensland.
• Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, who was the first to cross the Pacific from the United States to Australia, was from Queensland.
• Hugh Sawrey, famous Australian artist and founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, was born in Queensland.
• Steve Irwin, the great Crocodile-hunter, was from Queensland, although he was not born there, and only came to Qld as a young child. His daughter Bindi is becoming more famous in her own right.
• Steele Rudd, Australian journalist and author of "On Our Selection", was born on the Darling Downs in Queensland.
• Australian pioneer in physical therapy for polio sufferers, Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was actually born at Warialda, NSW, but moved to Queensland as a child, and it was in Queensland that she developed her ground-breaking techniques for rejuvenating polio-ridden limbs in children.
• Grant Hackett (Olympic swimmer)
• Pat Rafter (tennis player)
• Keith Urban (country singer)
• Kristy Hinze (famous supermodel)
• Stephanie Rice (Olympic swimmer)

There are different types of local food that were eaten in Brisbane Australia. Some of the popular ones included Campari sherbet, curds, orange sorbet, bombe and so much more.

Distance from Cairns to Airlie Beach: 632km. • Nearest domestic airport: Hamilton Island

The driving distance between Rockhampton and Mackay, Queensland, is 335 km. On average, the drive takes just over four hours.

2 1/2 to 3 hours. (depending on what part of Brisbane you are leaving from)

There is just one theme park in Surfers' Paradise, and that is SeaWorld.

Within the city of the Gold Coast, however, of which Surfers' Paradise is just one suburb, there are three more theme parks: Movie World, Dream World and Wet'n'Wild.

Australia is a country that has many climates. The coldest place to live in Australia is Tasmania, where the mean temperature is 15 degrees.

Queensland Day is celebrated on 6 June every year. On 6 June 1859, the former Moreton Bay District was granted separation from New South Wales, and given the name of Queensland, with Brisbane as its capital city. June 6th is celebrated every year as Queensland Day, the day which marks the birth of Queensland as a self-governing colony.

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Mary Kathleen used to be a town between Mt Isa and Cloncurry. It is now nothing more than a ghost town, a relic of a once prosperous mining boom. The town was completely closed down in 1982 and all the buildings removed. All that remains now are the completely mpty streets.

From Gladstone to Biloela is a distance of 120km. Travel time is around 1 hr 45 mins.

The distance from the Gold Coast to Childers is 391km. Due to heavy traffic in places, the journey may take up to five and a half hours.

It would depend upon which part of the Victoria border one was talking about.

From Sydney, straight down the Hume Highway to Wodonga on the Victorian side of the border of NSW and Victoria is a distance of 561km.

Straight down the Princes Highway along the coastal route, the distance from Sydney to the border of Victoria is 520km.

Both journeys by car take over seven hours.

The distance between Rockhampton and Ipswich is 668km. The travelling time is about 8 hours.

The name Fraser Island comes from Eliza Fraser and her story of survival from a shipwreck on the island. Captain James Fraser and his wife, Eliza Fraser, were shipwrecked on the island in 1836. The name of the ship was the Stirling Castle. Captain Fraser died but Eliza was rescued off the island. Eliza later made money traveling around England and Australia telling her story of the events that had occurred while the Stirling Castle'sofficers were on the island. As she is known to have told several versions of the story, it is unknown which version is the most accurate.

Eidsvold is about 395 kilometres northwest of Brisbane on the Burnett Highway.

Yes it is. However the quality of the course is dependent on which area you wish to study. People who are studying social sciences seem more satisfied than those studying nursing. I would highly recommend you examine all of the universities and their reputation in regards to your area of interest. I have heard mostly bad things from international students, however I have heard good things about their flexible learning options. www.cqu.edu.au

As is to be expected, the Queensland floods have brought a very wide range of responses.

Grief was the first response. People lost family members, pets, property and their very livelihood. Farmers and business owners, in particular, faced heartbreak of losses that they can never recoup. Flood insurance is very expensive for people who live anywhere near the river or in low areas, so many of these people were not insured. There was nothing for them to do but rebuild from scratch. It was especially hard when people saw others swept away, or went to assist in saving people, and saw young children swept away by the floodwaters. There was a great deal of grief.

Above all, though, Australians are remarkable and resilient people. People helped total strangers evacuate homes and offices. At the RSPCA refuge, people came along as they were being evacuated themselves, and took animals to foster. Although they faced losing everything, they were still willing to give more of themselves. Within the areas of devastation, people who were luckier and avoided floods in their own homes helped fill sandbags, helped organise the sorting and packing of donations, volunteered their time at the evacuation centres or opened their homes to people who needed a place to stay. Again and again, stories surfaced about people who had not escaped unscathed, but who still offered their help to people worse off than themselves. There is an Australian ethos of just getting in and helping neighbours, no matter what, and this really shone through in this difficult time. Naturally, the police and emergency services personnel worked tirelessly.

In each community, once the rivers and floodwaters peaked, people immediately started to rally, looking ahead to the need to clean up. There was no complaining - just people getting in and starting to clean up, because they knew it had to be done. And, as always, there were total strangers getting in and helping clean up. Brisbane dubbed Saturday 15 January as "Salvation Saturday". On this day, thousands and thousands of volunteers turned up at registration centres around the city with any cleaning equipment they had, queuing for long periods of time, awaiting their instructions and ready to be bussed to suburbs where help was needed.

After the floods started to go down, various authorities started looking for someone to blame. An inquiry was initiated into whether more water from Wivenhoe Dam should have been released earlier; questions were asked as to why the authorities did not heed warnings from people with local knowledge who believed a flood was inevitable.

The Great Barrier Reef itself is an example of mutualism. The corals which create coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef have a symbiotic relationship with algae known as zooxanthellae. This algae, which lives within the tissues of the coral, causes a photosynthetic reaction which enables the polyps to make skeletons about three times faster in the light than in the dark. This means the corals deposit skeletons faster than the environment can remove it, and these skeletons build upon each other over time, creating a coral reef.

Queensland is famous for a range of things.

Because of its tropical climate there are many tropical fruits like mango, banana, pineapple, pawpaw etc grown there. It is also ideal sugar-cane country.

When people think of Queensland they mainly associate it with great beaches, great surf, great tans, and adventure parks.

Australia does not have Disney land, but there is a range of parks with rides and attractions and many are in Queensland on the Gold Coast or the Sunshine Coast. They include SeaWorld, Movie World, Wet 'n' Wild, Dreamworld, Underwater World, Australia Zoo, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Queensland is one of just three states where opals are found, and there are many other precious stones found in central Queensland.

Queensland is famous for being where the Royal Flying Doctor Service started, and for where the School of the Air began. It is also the home of the Stockman's Hall of Fame, at Longreach, and also the home of QANTAS, Australia's national airline. The outback town of Winton celebrates the fact that Banjo Pateson's "Waltzing Matilda" was first performed there.

It is famous for Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef; for the skyrail between Kuranda and the outskirts of Cairns; for snorkelling and diving.