Queensland, twice the size of New South Wales and eight times the size of Victoria. That’s how the recently established Government Tourist Bureau promoted the state on postcards in 1912.

South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, November 1888

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
1 January 1888
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Maryborough, QLD
Australia

Collection of Queensland State Archives

List of South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, 1888, using an employment register schedule. List shows date admitted, illness, employer plantation and discharge date. This shows how Islander patients were segregated from other patients. Collection of Queensland State Archives

South Sea Islander School Children, Mackay, 1932

Mackay, QLD
Australia
1 January 1932
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Mackay, QLD
Australia

Collection of Queensland State Archives

List of South Sea Islander School Children, Pleystowe, Walkerston and Dumbleton Schools, Mackay. Noted are ages, grade, school and remarks about where the children live and how they get to school.

Generations of Australian South Sea Islanders gather on the lawns of the Queensland Parliament to accept recognition, acknowledgement, commitment and understanding from the people of Queensland, 20

Collection of Imelda Miller

On 7 September 2000, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and the Queensland Parliament in bipartisan solidarity formally recognised the Australian South Sea Islander Community as a distinct cultural g

Collection of the Queensland Museum

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

Channel Country, near Bedourie, sand hills after flood waters subside or evaporate, 1972. Slide by Dennis Costigan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright Dennis Costigan and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Gregory’s theodolite, c1870

Gregory’s theodolite, c1870

Location

Australia
H28314
Queensland Museum
29 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
295mm
240mm
157mm

String bag, 1960-1970

Location

Australia
QE6005
Queensland Museum
Aurukun Mission Station
29 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
350mm
140mm
5mm

Shark dance headdress, 1989

Shark dance headdress, 1989        

Locations

Erub Island, Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
Cairns, QLD
Australia
16° 55' 24.2364" S, 145° 46' 25.8636" E
QE12721
Queensland Museum
Cairns, Queensland
1 January 1989
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Erub Island, Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
Cairns, QLD
Australia
16° 55' 24.2364" S, 145° 46' 25.8636" E
Dimensions
660mm
650mm
260mm
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