communications

Headquarters and signals room of Emergency Civil Defence Services, Green Street, West End (Townsville), set up in 1972 after Cyclone Althea struck in December 1971. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Post and telegraph offices, Mackay, c1908. Postcard Folder, Collection of John Young, Centre for the Government of Queensland

Telephone Exchange, Ayr, 1992. Slide by Michael Keniger, Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland.               

Redundant telephone-wire pole is pulled from the ground, Chinchilla Shire, 1979.  Slide by Neville Sim Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.