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

Queensland, c1900

QLD
Australia
1 January 1900
31 August 2010
31 August 2010

Location

QLD
Australia
London
Thomas Nelson and Sons

Collection of John Young

Pastoral occupation and land clearing were so imprinted on Queensland that the settled and unsettled districts continued to be shown in standard atlas maps into the twentieth century. They are shown thus on the map taken from J.G. Bartholomew’s Royal Australasian World Atlas, c1900. Municipal and shire boundaries had neither the simplicity nor popular recognition of the twelve districts.

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