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Shorn sheep at Jondaryan Woolshed, Darling Downs, 1915. From Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Sheep on Oondooroo Station, near Winton, 1915. From Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland sheep and wool industry, 1918. Compiled and issues by the Government Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, Queensland.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Pastoralism 1860s-1915

After two decades of land seizure and frontier bloodshed, by 1859 the pastoral grazing of sheep and cattle had completely transformed at least a quarter of the land use in Queensland and had become

Schoolies week, Surfers Paradise, 2008

Surfers Paradise, QLD

Australia

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1 January 2008

12 November 2010

Location

Surfers Paradise, QLD

Australia

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12 November 2010

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Schoolies week, Surfers Paradise, free map, 2008

Schoolies week: a festival of misrule

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

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1 January 1907

3 November 2010

Location

Dornville Hotel

Millmerran, QLD

Australia

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3 November 2010

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’.