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Historical diagrams showing the subdivision of Australia, 1904

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1 January 1904

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12 November 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Historical diagrams showing the subdivision of Australia, 1904. The borders and states of Australia evolved between 1788 and 1911, when the Australian Capital Territory was created. Queensland was separated from New South Wales as a colony in 1859. The western Queensland border was extended in June 1862, creating the present Queensland shape. From The Lady Northcote atlas of Australasia, Sydney, H.E.C. Robinson, 1908. Collection of the National Library of Australia

J.D.Lang, Map of the proposed seven united provinces of eastern Australia, 1857

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1 January 1857

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12 November 2010

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

J.D.Lang, Map of the proposed seven united provinces of eastern Australia, 1857. Here Lang proposes three divisions for Queensland – Flinders Land in the north, Leicharts (sic) Land in the centre and Cooks Land in the south. From John Dunmore Lang, Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia: the right of the colonies, and the interest of Britain and of the world, (second edition) Sydney, Cunninghame, 1857. Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Queensland local government boundaries, 2008

QLD

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1 January 2008

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QLD

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31 August 2010

State of Queensland

Queensland local government boundaries, 2008

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

Civil government boundaries

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.