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Tommy Wills, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Tommy Wills (right) with cricketing colleagues, 1864. MCC Collection.

MCC Collection

Thomas Wentworth Wills and Cullin-la-ringo Station

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.

Architect’s drawing of Trades Hall Theatre and adjoining Trades Hall, Rockhampton, c1920. Collection of Barbara Webster

Collection of Barbara Webster

The Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009. Featuring the original trunk, poisoned. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Inside the Tree of Knowledge Memorial, Barcaldine, 2009. Barcaldine – and the labour movement –suffered a symbolic blow in October 2006, with the poisoning death of the heritage-listed Tree of Knowledge. However, a spectacular architect-designed new Tree of Knowledge memorial using the site and the trunk of the original tree was opened in May 2009 by Premier Anna Bligh. It features an 18 metre high cube in which 4000 suspended timbers of varying length form the tree canopy. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Australian Workers Heritage Centre, Barcaldine, 2009. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Australian Workers Heritage Centre, Barcaldine, 1991. Celebration Theatre, Centenary of Australian Labour Movement, Barcaldine. Slide by Barcaldine Council, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine, 1991. Slide by Barcaldine Council, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Shearer’s strike camp at Barcaldine, 1891. Collection of the Australian Workers Heritage Centre

Collection of the Australian Workers Heritage Centre