Queensland brand

Queensland, twice the size of New South Wales and eight times the size of Victoria. That’s how the recently established Government Tourist Bureau promoted the state on postcards in 1912.

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Channel Country, near Bedourie, 1972

Channel Country, near Bedourie, sand hills after flood waters subside or evaporate, 1972. Slide by Dennis Costigan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright Dennis Costigan and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Shark dance headdress, 1989

Shark dance headdress, 1989        

Locations

Erub Island, Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
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Cairns, QLD
Australia
16° 55' 24.2364" S, 145° 46' 25.8636" E
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QE12721
Queensland Museum
Cairns, Queensland
1 January 1989
28 October 2010
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Erub Island, Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
Cairns, QLD
Australia
16° 55' 24.2364" S, 145° 46' 25.8636" E
See map: Google Maps
Distinctiveness
Distinctiveness: how Queensland is a distinctive landscape and culture
Memory: how people remember the landscape
Dimensions
660mm
650mm
260mm

South Sea Islander huts, Childers, 1904

South Sea Islander huts, Farnbro, Childers, 1904. Queensland agricultural journal, 1904. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islander recruitment, New Hebrides, 1893

Australia
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1 January 1893
22 October 2010
22 October 2010

Location

Australia
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22 October 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Neighbours: Asia and the Pacific
Sugar slaves

Map of the New Hebrides with handwritten numbers indicating where and how many South Sea Islanders were taken on board during the twentieth voyage of the Labour Vessel, Ariel, 1893 and list of Islanders 'recruited' on this voyage. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

See Queensland first before joh sells it, c1978

See Queensland first before joh sells it, c1978. Anti Joh Bjelke-Petersen bumper sticker, modeled on the Queensland tourism campaigns and issued by the Australian Labor Party.

Copyright © Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Aerial photograph, Darling Downs, 1969

Strips of winter crop and fallow make a striking contrast in this aerial picture taken over the Darling Downs, cover, Queensland agricultural journal, volume 95, number 4, April 1969.

Land classification, Channel Country, 1949

Channel Country Channel Country, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1949
16 July 2010
16 July 2010

Location

Channel Country Channel Country, QLD
Australia
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16 July 2010
Brisbane
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Public Lands
Channel Country

Channel Country

From the air, the braided Channel Country constitutes some of the most distinctive landscape in Australia.

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Darling Downs and Granite Belt (tourist map), c1935

Map from tourist brochure, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, published by Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Brisbane, c1935. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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