Queensland sugarcane fields were riven with ethnic divisions between Anglo-Celts and migrants with non-English speaking backgrounds from southern Europe.

Proposed Queensland sugar mill locations, 1923

QLD
Australia
1 January 1923
14 April 2011
14 April 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Government Printer

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Proposed Queensland sugar mill locations, 1923. In 1922, the Queensland Government appointed William Harris to chair a Royal Commission into the most suitable locations for future sugar mills. From 10 October to 13 December the Royal Commission inspected and listened to the testimony of witnesses at many of these proposed locations. Together with the evidence of interested people, the commission heard from master mariners, Crowns Lands Rangers, officers of the Public Estate Improvement Branch, and other departments of the Public Service. The product of the Royal Commission was a report presented to the parliament which included this map. Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the most suitable locations for sugar mills which may be erected in the near future, Brisbane, Government Printer, 1923

Burning sugar cane near Cairns, area is now a Cairns suburb, 1965. Slide by Rex Grattidge, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Rex Grattidge and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

A gang working on sugar cane tram lines, Isis central sugar mill, near Childers, 1976. Slide by George Moller, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © George Moller and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Sugar cane, Atherton Shire, 1966. Slide by Robin Barron, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Robin Barron and the Centre for the Government of Queensland 

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

The Sunshine Coast is one of Australia’s most rapidly changing regions.

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders planting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

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