Injune district near 'Fairview' property, clear-felled mixed brigalow and cypress-pine woodland using a ball-and-chain dragline, 1986. Slide by Patrick Conaghan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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Banyan tree, which covered nearly an acre in the grounds of Ormiston House, Ormiston, 1959. Slide by Oswald Endacott, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Bottle trees, Boondoomba, c1959. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Drought feeding bottle trees to cattle, Monogorilby, c1955. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Men's woodchop, Goombungee show, c1960. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright © John Thun and Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

Women's woodchop, Goombungee show, c1960. Slides by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Aboriginal shield tree, Ackeray Station, Augathella, 1979. Slide by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library.

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Trees are found in most Queensland landscapes.

The coal miners

The coal miners

by Eric MacKenzie

They shuffle out, darkened by need,

a minstrel show of faces, fake.

Location

Australia
19 October 2010
19 October 2010

Rodney Hall (ed), Poems from prison, St Lucia, UQP, 1973

Australia

Queensland is the world’s third biggest coal exporter.

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