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Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum (Goodna) opened in 1865

Goodna, QLD

Australia

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19 November 2010

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Goodna, QLD

Australia

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19 November 2010

Collection of Mark Finnane & Joanna Besley

Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum (Goodna) opened in 1865. Collection of Mark Finnane & Joanna Besley

Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, 1825

Australia

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1 January 1825

19 November 2010

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Australia

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19 November 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, inset map 1825 to Chart of part of New South Wales and plans of the harbours, London 1827. Moreton Bay and Brisbane River map taken from Stirling’s and Lockyer surveys. Annotations show course of the Brisbane River and include tide mark, coal bed, quality of the land and soil, kangaroos, and where ‘natives’ were met. Sir Herbert Taylor’s Range and D’Aguilar’s Range noted as well as the Glass Houses to the north. 'Respectfully dedicated to John Oxley Esq, Surveyor General'. Collection of the National Library of Australia

The Commissariat Store, Brisbane, 1972. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Convict-built windmill, erected in 1829, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, 1971. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Plan of the limits of the town of Brisbane, 1843

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1843

12 November 2010

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Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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12 November 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Plan of the limits of the town of Brisbane, 1843. On 10 February 1842, three years after the penal colony officially closed, the district was proclaimed open to free settlers. New residents found a frontier town with vestiges of suburbs, basic government buildings, a network of roads and a navigable river. This map, by the Surveyor in charge of the Moreton Bay district Henry Wade, shows the Commissariat Store (C Store) and Windmill. Also plotted are the ferry crossing to South Brisbane, saw pit, hospital, survey office, post office, gaol, police barracks, church, factory, Government House, wharf, government garden, and old burial ground. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Moreton Bay, c1830

One Sunday morning as I went walking
By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray
I heard a convict his fate bewailing
As on the sunny river bank I lay

12 November 2010

From Geoffrey C. Ingleton, True patriots all, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1952. Logan became Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1826. He was hated by the convicts for his harsh methods. He did some exploring and was surveying the Upper Brisbane river when he was killed by Aborigines in 1830. Logan was a relentless flogger as shown in a sample record of his floggings that were noted in the diary of one of the prison clerks. This records that from February to October in 1828 Logan ordered 200 floggings with over 11,000 lashes. When Logan's body was brought back to Moreton Bay, the convicts ‘manifested insane joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of the warders’.

Convict Brisbane

Between September 1824 and late 1839 a small remote penal settlement was established at Moreton Bay on Australia’s north-eastern coast.

Historical diagrams showing the subdivision of Australia, 1904

Australia

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1 January 1904

12 November 2010

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Australia

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12 November 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Historical diagrams showing the subdivision of Australia, 1904. The borders and states of Australia evolved between 1788 and 1911, when the Australian Capital Territory was created. Queensland was separated from New South Wales as a colony in 1859. The western Queensland border was extended in June 1862, creating the present Queensland shape. From The Lady Northcote atlas of Australasia, Sydney, H.E.C. Robinson, 1908. Collection of the National Library of Australia

J.D.Lang, Map of the proposed seven united provinces of eastern Australia, 1857

Australia

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1 January 1857

12 November 2010

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Australia

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12 November 2010

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

J.D.Lang, Map of the proposed seven united provinces of eastern Australia, 1857. Here Lang proposes three divisions for Queensland – Flinders Land in the north, Leicharts (sic) Land in the centre and Cooks Land in the south. From John Dunmore Lang, Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia: the right of the colonies, and the interest of Britain and of the world, (second edition) Sydney, Cunninghame, 1857. Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Secession movements

Queensland is governed from a state capital located a great distance from the majority of its land area.