The latter half of the s saw a series of small Gold Rushes in Queensland, with discoveries made in Canoona, Gympie, the Palmer River and plenty of other locations, bringing an influx of people into the state, as well as Chinese settlers arriving to work in the gold fields. It was this time that saw the growth of a number of industries, particularly sugar production, and by sugar plantations had made it as far north as Cairns. On the 1 st of January , the Commonwealth of Australia was created.
The result was Queensland losing its colonial status to become a state in the new country of Australia. The colonial era was over. At the start of the twentieth century the population of Queensland was at the half a million mark. It was a time of establishment for the new state; Brisbane was proclaimed a city in , women voted in state elections for the first time in , the first National Park was declared in now Tamborine National Park , in the University of Queensland was established, and saw a small airline called Qantas founded to serve outback Queensland.
A number of cities in northern Queensland were bombed during air attacks including Horn Island, Townsville , Cairns and Mossman. There was a massive build-up of Australian and US forces in the state as MacArthur established his headquarters in Brisbane. In a major flood devastated the city of Brisbane causing widespread damage. The first electric Tilt Train service runs from Brisbane to Rockhampton. Queensland celebrates its th anniversary with a statewide program of special events and celebrations.
A series of floods hits Queensland, beginning in November and continuing through to January The floods force the evacuation of thousands of people from towns and cities, with at least 90 towns and more than , people affected.
Cyclone Yasi makes landfall in northern Queensland and causes an estimated 3. Queensland hosts the G20 summit on 15 and 16 November, bringing delegates and international media to the state. In March, the drought, covering more than 80 per cent of the state, is declared as the worst on record.
A new dinosaur type is found in Winton, later named the Savannasaurus elliottorum after the Elliot family who found the bones on their farm. The Queensland Government declared a public health emergency on 29 January in response to the global outbreak of coronavirus. This was the first time a Grand Final was held outside Victoria in years. Please use our complaints and compliments form. Thank you! From , free settlers and convicts who had been pardoned were encouraged to take up land in the colony.
The majority came from Britain and Europe. Many battles took place as Indigenous people resisted the intrusion and occupation of the land for which they had cared for thousands of years. By the s, the people of Moreton Bay were concerned that the government in Sydney was too far away. They began to call for the creation of a new colony, and petitioned the British Government to grant their request to separate from New South Wales.
But, the squatters had rivals who competed for wealth and power. The plantation owners, cattle graziers and mine operators of central and northern Queensland considered their needs and interests to be different from those who governed them from Brisbane.
They wanted to separate and form new colonies. Queensland was as large as Europe, and it was not practical or desirable that Brisbane should be the only link with the outside world.
Those in the north also had different ideas about migrant labour. The success of the sugar plantations of the north around Bundaberg, Mackay, Cairns and Townsville, depended on thousands of South Pacific Islanders who came to the colony as indentured workers.
They were transported to the colony by the plantation owners, then paid at the end of their time and transported back to their islands. Many were swindled out of their already low wages and some died from disease or illness.
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