Queensland local government boundaries, 2008

QLD
Australia
1 January 2008
31 August 2010
31 August 2010

Location

QLD
Australia
State of Queensland

© The State of Queensland

The hotly contested amalgamations by the Beattie Labor Government in 2008 made for a simpler map, more than halving the number of councils from 157 to 73, but in many places they lacked public acceptance. Planning Information and Forecasting Unit, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, April 2008. The State of Queensland

By the 1850s Queensland’s greatest value to colonists was the pastoral potential of its land, all of which had been claimed by the British Crown.

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