The American-inspired ‘radial’ design was widely used in late nineteenth century Queensland prisons. A variation on Jeremy Bentham’s ‘panopticon’, this design created a central focus of control and sense of architectural and social order. The second prison at Rockhampton, built in 1884 and Townsville prison, 1887, from Inquiry into Gaols, 1887. Collection of Christopher Dawson.

Collection of Christopher Dawson

Queen Street prison, 1850s. Collection of Christopher Dawson. One of the major shifts in nineteenth century penological thinking was in the area of prisoner classification, a shift that was neatly reflected in the changing design of Queensland prisons constructed throughout that century.

Collection of Christopher Dawson

Palen Creek prison farm, 1939. State farms, or ‘honour prisons’, are low-security facilities used to house low-risk inmates.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 189041

The imposition of a new and dominant system of law was an important part of the European settlement of Queensland.

Queensland local government boundaries, 2008

QLD
Australia
1 January 2008
31 August 2010
31 August 2010

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QLD
Australia
State of Queensland

© The State of Queensland

The hotly contested amalgamations by the Beattie Labor Government in 2008 made for a simpler map, more than halving the number of councils from 157 to 73, but in many places they lacked public acceptance. Planning Information and Forecasting Unit, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, April 2008. The State of Queensland

Queensland, c1900

QLD
Australia
1 January 1900
31 August 2010
31 August 2010

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QLD
Australia
London
Thomas Nelson and Sons

Collection of John Young

Pastoral occupation and land clearing were so imprinted on Queensland that the settled and unsettled districts continued to be shown in standard atlas maps into the twentieth century. They are shown thus on the map taken from J.G. Bartholomew’s Royal Australasian World Atlas, c1900. Municipal and shire boundaries had neither the simplicity nor popular recognition of the twelve districts.

By the 1850s Queensland’s greatest value to colonists was the pastoral potential of its land, all of which had been claimed by the British Crown.

Griffith Taylor's Climograph, 1918

Australia
1 January 1918
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

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Australia
Queensland Geographical Journal

Griffith Taylor’s climographs comparing selected Australian towns with the ideal climate for the white race. Taylor’s climographs combine wet-bulb temperature and humidity data for each month of the year, producing a twelve-sided polygon for each location to allow easy comparison between them. Other climographs compiled by Taylor show the close similarity between tropical Australia and India.

Griffith Taylor, ‘Geographical factors controlling the settlement of tropical Australia’, Queensland Geographical Journal, No18-19, 1918, vols 32-33.

Group of sugar growers and families, Innisfail, North Queensland. Sure proof of a white race living and thriving in the Queensland tropics.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, 1903

Australia
1 January 1903
30 August 2010
30 August 2010

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Australia
Melbourne
E.W. Cole Book Arcade

Map of the world showing the warm countries in which the skin of human beings gradually becomes brown, and the hot countries in which it gradually becomes black, 1903. E.W.

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