If Queensland was a country it would be among the top ten sporting nations in the world.

Australia’s coastal and inland towns have long resented the dominance of the capital cities, not only as the major seats of government, commerce and transport, but as the dominant sites for sportin

Schoolies week, Surfers Paradise, 2008

Surfers Paradise, QLD
Australia
1 January 2008
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Surfers Paradise, QLD
Australia

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Schoolies week, Surfers Paradise, free map, 2008 

Since the mid-sixteenth century, there has been a tradition in British society wherein, upon the completion of their education, privileged young men would embark upon a celebratory period in which

Patrick Keating, Truth (Brisbane), 28 July 1907. Keating was charged in 1907 following an incident at the Dornville Hotel, Millmerran

Dornville Hotel, Millmerran, 1907

Dornville Hotel
Millmerran, QLD
Australia
1 January 1907
3 November 2010
3 November 2010

Location

Dornville Hotel
Millmerran, QLD
Australia

Collection Queensland State Archives

Plan of the Dornville Hotel, Criminal Depositions, 1907, Queensland State Archives. In 1907, 47-year-old Patrick Keating was seen acting suspiciously in the hallway of the Dornville Hotel in Millmerran near Pittsworth. He was making his way from bedroom no 4 to bedroom no 6, occupied by heavy-set shearer John Conway, aged about 40.  Conway tried to assert that Keating had assaulted him. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Why had Conway decided to stay the night when he only lived a few miles away?  He was sober and aware of ‘certain rumours’ concerning Keating. Conway admitted that he had asked Keating to return to his room for a tube of lanoline. His apparent excuse: ‘I wanted to see how far ... [he] would go’.

Alfred Shaw and Co, new crockery shop in Queen Street Brisbane and the stores situated in Fortitude Valley, John Oxley Library.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 160411

William Green and James Fletcher, Truth (Brisbane), 30 August 1908. The police were aware of goings-on in certain places.

Truth (Brisbane) and John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image APU-048-0001-0017

William Johns, Truth (Brisbane) 13 January 1907; Pike Brothers, Queen Street, Brisbane c1920, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 67440

42-year-old Peter Crown and 23-year-old Patrick Hogan, from Her Majesty’s Prison, Photographic Record and Description of Prisoners, February 1894 to August 1896, QSA, PRI 1/10.

Collection Queensland State Archives

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