Repairing broken windows, American canteen, Brisbane 1942. During the Thanksgiving Day riot Australian soldiers tried to gain entrance to the building that distributed luxuries to American sol
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When thinking of the great battlefields of World War II it is Stalingrad’s rooftops, London’s skyline and the jungles of Burma that come to mind, not the sleepy 'big country town' of Brisbane.

Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.

Anti-chinese cartoon on the cover of Queensland Punch and Figaro, 14 July 1888. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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With the commencement of the Queensland gold-rushes in the 1860s, large numbers of Chinese miners and businesses arrived, and competition with Europeans led to rising tensions.

Sergeant James Whiteford and troopers, Cape York Peninsula, c1900. Collection of Jonathan Richards

Collection of Jonathan Richards

England, like most European powers, conquered and ruled a large colonial empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A bomb exploded at the Iwasaki resort at Yeppoon on 29 November 1980. It ripped a large crater in an unfinished block of holiday units, causing damage estimated at $1 million.

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