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2010–11 Queensland floods

Index 2010–11 Queensland floods

A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in November 2010. [1]

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News is a national news service in Australia produced by the News and Current Affairs division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC Rural

ABC Rural was a department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that produced news, business, and entertainment programs targeted at audiences in regional Australia.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Andrew Fraser (Queensland politician)

Andrew Peter Fraser (born 15 September 1976) was first elected into the Legislative Assembly of Queensland on 7 February 2004.

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Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Anna Bligh

Anna Maria Bligh (born 14 July 1960) is a former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland, in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press (AAP) is an Australian news agency.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian Defence Force

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Australia.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Babinda

Babinda is a small town and locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Beaudesert, Queensland

Beaudesert is a town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Bellbowrie, Queensland

Bellbowrie is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Bob Atkinson (police officer)

Robert 'Bob' Atkinson, was the Queensland Police Commissioner from 2000 until his retirement in 2012.

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Bowen Basin

The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia.

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Bowen Hills, Queensland

Bowen Hills is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located 3 km (1.86 miles) northeast of the Brisbane CBD.

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Bremer River (Queensland)

The Bremer River is a river that is a tributary of the Brisbane River, located in the Scenic Rim and Brisbane regions of South East Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district (CBD), officially gazetted as the suburb of Brisbane City and colloquially referred to as 'the city', is the heart of the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane River

The Brisbane River (indigenous name Maiwar) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay.

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Brisbane Showgrounds

Brisbane Showgrounds (formerly known as the Brisbane Exhibition Ground) is located at 600 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and was established in 1875.

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Brisbane Times

Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

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Bull shark

The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally "zambi") in Africa, and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers.

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Bundaberg

Bundaberg is a city near the south-east coast of Queensland, Australia, situated on the Burnett River.

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Burnett River

The Burnett River is a river located in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia.

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Campbell Newman

Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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Central Queensland

Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland (a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn.

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Central Queensland University

Central Queensland University (alternatively known as CQUniversity) is an Australian dual sector university based in Queensland.

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Chinchilla, Queensland

Chinchilla is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Commission of Inquiry into the 2010–11 Queensland floods

The Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods was an Australian inquiry set up by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to investigate the circumstances surrounding the deadly 2010–2011 Queensland floods.

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Condamine River

The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia.

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Condamine, Queensland

Condamine is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

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Coroners Court of Queensland

The Coroners Court of Queensland is a court in the court hierarchy of Queensland, Australia.

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Courier Mail Piazza

The Courier Mail Piazza is a multi-purpose venue located in the South Bank Parklands in Brisbane, Australia.

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Cyclone Oswald

Tropical Cyclone Oswald in January 2013 passed over parts of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia over a number of days, causing widespread impact including severe storms, flooding, and water spouts.

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Cyclone Tasha

Tropical Cyclone Tasha was a short-lived, but devastating tropical cyclone that exacerbated widespread floods in Queensland, Australia during the 2010 Christmas holiday.

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Cyclone Tracy

Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974, devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Dalby, Queensland

Dalby is a town and locality in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

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Darling Downs

The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

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Downing Street

Downing Street is a street in London, United Kingdom, known for housing the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Dysart, Queensland

Dysart is a town and a locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Early 2011 Victorian floods

High intensity rainfall between 12–14 January 2011 caused major flooding across much of the western and central parts of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Economy of Australia

The economy of Australia is one of the largest mixed-market economies in the world, with a GDP of A$1.69 trillion as of 2017.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Emerald, Queensland

Emerald is a town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Emergency Management Queensland

Emergency Management Queensland was the emergency division of the Department of Community Safety.

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Enoggera Barracks

Enoggera Barracks (also known as Gallipoli Barracks) is an Australian Army base in the northwestern Brisbane suburb of Enoggera in Queensland.

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Enoggera, Queensland

Enoggera is a suburb of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia north-west of the Brisbane CBD.

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Fitzroy River (Queensland)

The Fitzroy River (Darumbal: Toonooba) is a river located in Central Queensland, Australia.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Flood levy

The flood levy was a temporary reconstruction tax that will fund the reconstruction of Queensland, Australia, following the 2010–2011 Queensland floods.

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Floodgate

Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems.

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Floods in Australia

This is a list of notable recorded floods that have occurred in the country of Australia.

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Fortitude Valley, Queensland

Fortitude Valley (also known simply as "The Valley") is a suburb of central Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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Gailes, Queensland

Gailes is a suburb in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

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Gatton, Queensland

Gatton is a town and the administrative centre of the Lockyer Valley local government area situated in the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland, Australia.

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Gayndah

Gayndah is a town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Gold Coast, Queensland

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the Australian state of Queensland, approximately south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales.

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Goodna, Queensland

Goodna is a suburb on the eastern edge of the City of Ipswich in Queensland, Australia.

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Goondiwindi

Goondiwindi is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.. At the, the town had an urban population of approximately 5,500. The name Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word with goondi indicating droppings or dung and windi indicating duck, probably connected with the roosting place on a large rock in the Macintyre River. The name was believed to be first used for a pastoral run in the area.

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Goonyella railway line

The Goonyella railway system is located in Central Queensland, Australia.

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Gordonvale, Queensland

Gordonvale is a small sugar-growing town and locality situated on the southern side of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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Governor of Queensland

The Governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the Queen of Australia.

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Graceville, Queensland

Graceville is a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Grantham, Queensland

Grantham is a town in the Lockyer Valley region of Queensland, Australia.

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Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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Gympie

Gympie is a town and a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Helidon, Queensland

Helidon is a town and locality in the Lockyer Valley region of southeast Queensland, Australia.

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Herald Sun

The Herald Sun is a morning newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and NSW South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In March 2009, the paper had a daily circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.

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Herbert River

The Herbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Hubert Chanson

Hubert Chanson (born 1 November 1961) is a professor in hydraulic engineering and applied fluid mechanics in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland since 1990.

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Hubners Bridge

The Hubners Bridge (also known as Hubner Bridge) was a road bridge on the Sandy Creek Road over Sandy Creek in the locality of Sandy Creek, northeast of Kilcoy in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Industrial and organizational psychology

Industrial and organizational psychology (I/O psychology), which is also known as occupational psychology, organizational psychology, and work and organizational psychology, is an applied discipline within psychology.

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Ingham, Queensland

Ingham is a town and locality in the Shire of Hinchinbrook, North Queensland, Australia.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 17 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.

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Ipswich, Queensland

Ipswich is an urban region in south-east Queensland, Australia, which is located in the south-west of the Brisbane metropolitan area.

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Jericho, Queensland

Jericho is a rural village situated on the Capricorn Highway in Central West Queensland, Australia.

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John Key

Sir John Phillip Key (born 9 August 1961) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand and Leader of the New Zealand National Party.

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Julia Gillard

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is a retired Australian politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 2010 to 2013.

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Karana Downs, Queensland

Karana Downs is a locality in the west of the City of Brisbane, South-East Queensland, Australia.

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Kevin E. Trenberth

Kevin Edward Trenberth (born November 8, 1944) is part of the Climate Analysis Section at the US NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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La Niña

La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.

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Lang Park

Lang Park, also known as Brisbane Stadium, and by the sponsored name Suncorp Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, located in the suburb of Milton.

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Len Brown

Leonard "Len" Brown (born in Taumarunui, Ruapehu District, Manawatu-Wanganui) is a former Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand and head of the Auckland Council.

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List of disasters in Australia by death toll

This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Australia sorted by death toll.

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Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world No. 1.

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Local government areas of Queensland

This is a list of local government areas (LGAs) in Queensland, sorted by region.

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Lockyer Creek

The Lockyer Creek is a creek located in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Lockyer Valley

The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmlands that lies to the west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and east of Toowoomba.

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Logan City

Logan City is a local government area situated within the south of the Brisbane metropolitan area in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Lord mayor

The lord mayor is the title of the mayor of a major city in the United Kingdom or Commonwealth realm, with special recognition bestowed by the sovereign.

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Macintyre River

The Macintyre River, a perennial river that forms part of the Border Rivers group, is part of the Barwon catchment of the Murray-Darling basin, located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales, and the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

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Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group Limited is a global investment banking and diversified financial services group.

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Major general (Australia)

Major general (abbreviated MAJGEN) is a senior rank of the Australian Army, and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of major general.

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March 2010 Queensland floods

Heavy rain in March 2010 saw much of south western and central Queensland undergo major flooding.

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Mark Geyer

Mark Geyer OAM (born 7 December 1967), is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Mary River (Queensland)

The Mary River (Kabi: Moocooboola) is a major river system located in the South East and Wide Bay–Burnett regions of Queensland, Australia.

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Maryborough, Queensland

Maryborough is a city and a suburb in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Maurice Blackburn (law firm)

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, (formerly Maurice Blackburn & Co and Maurice Blackburn Cashman), was founded in 1919 by Maurice Blackburn.

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Michael Slater (general)

Major General Michael David "Mick" Slater, (born 8 July 1958) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army, who served as Commander Forces Command from November 2011 until his retirement in January 2015.

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Moggill Road

Moggill Road is a major road in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Moggill, Queensland

Moggill is a suburb in the west of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Monarchy of Australia

The monarchy of Australia is a form of government in which a hereditary king or queen serves as the nation's sovereign.

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Monsoon trough

The monsoon trough is a portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone,Bin Wang.

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Moura, Queensland

Moura is a small town and locality in the Shire of Banana in Central Queensland, Australia.

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Mundubbera

Mundubbera is a town in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Neal Ashkanasy

Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD (born 5 June 1945) is an Australian academic, writer, and researcher, best known as one of the founders of the Emotions in Management movement, honored for his "service to tertiary education, to psychology and to the community." He began his career as a civil engineer but is now a Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School.

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Neil Roberts (politician)

Neil Stuart Roberts (born 3 January 1955) is a former Australian politician.

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New Farm, Queensland

New Farm is a riverside inner suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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New Scientist

New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand Defence Force

The New Zealand Defence Force (Maori: Te Ope Kaatua o Aotearoa, "Line of Defence of New Zealand") consists of three services: the Royal New Zealand Navy; New Zealand Army; and the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and is commanded and headed by the Chief of Defence Force (CDF) the Commander-in-Chief of the NZDF is Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand, who exercises power on the advice of the Minister of Defence, Ron Mark, under the Defence Act 1990.

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New Zealand Fire Service

The New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS, Whakaratonga Iwi, "Service to the People") was New Zealand's main firefighting body from 1 April 1976 until 1 July 2017 - at which point it was dissolved and incorporated into the new Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

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New Zealand Police

The New Zealand Police (Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa) is the national police force of New Zealand, responsible for enforcing criminal law, enhancing public safety, maintaining order and keeping the peace throughout New Zealand.

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News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited) is one of Australia's largest media companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists.

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Nick Xenophon

Nicholas Xenophon (né Xenophou; 29 January 1959) is an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Nine.com.au

Nine.com.au (formerly Ninemsn) is an Australian website owned by Mi9, a subsidiary of Nine Entertainment Co., in partnership with Microsoft.

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Nogoa River

The Nogoa River is a river located in Central Queensland, Australia.

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North Queensland

North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland.

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Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic (Novak Đoković / Новак Ђоковић,; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.

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Operation Queensland Flood Assist

Operation Queensland Flood Assist is a complex, multi-Service activity by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as a contribution to the response to the 2010–2011 Queensland floods.

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Paradise Dam (Queensland)

The Paradise Dam, also known as the Burnett River Dam, is a rock-filled gravity dam across the Burnett River, located northwest and southwest of in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia.

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Penelope Wensley

Penelope Anne "Penny" Wensley (born 18 October 1946) is a former Australian public servant and diplomat who served as Governor of Queensland from 2008 to 2014.

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PM (Australian radio program)

PM is one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current-affairs radio programs, and is one of Australia's longest-running productions.

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Port of Bundaberg

Port of Bundaberg is located at Burnett Heads, northeast of the city of Bundaberg, 5.6 nautical miles from the mouth of the Burnett River.

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Port of Gladstone

The Port of Gladstone is Queensland's largest multi-commodity port and the fifth largest multi-commodity port in Australia.

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Premier of Queensland

The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Te Pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family.

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Pullenvale, Queensland

Pullenvale is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Police Service

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland.

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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

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Rockhampton

Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Rocklea, Queensland

Rocklea is a large suburb of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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Roger Federer

Roger Federer (born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.

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Roma, Queensland

Roma is a town, locality and the administrative centre in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Royal Household

A royal household or imperial household in ancient and medieval monarchies, and papal household for popes, formed the basis for the general government of the country as well as providing for the needs of the sovereign and his relations.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (SST) is the water temperature close to the ocean's surface.

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Seqwater

Seqwater is a statutory authority of the Government of Queensland that provides bulk water storage, transport and treatment, water grid management and planning, catchment management and flood mitigation services to the South East Queensland region of Australia.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges

The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges are a side-by-side pair of road bridges on the Gateway Motorway (M1), which skirts the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Somerset Dam

The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia.

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South Bank Parklands

The South Bank Parklands are located at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, political, and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains 3.5 million people out of the state's population of 4.8 million.

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St Lucia, Queensland

St Lucia is a suburb within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia southwest of the Brisbane CBD.

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State of Origin series

The State of Origin series is the annual best-of-three rugby league football match series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.

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SunWater

SunWater, the trading name of SunWater Limited, is a statutory Queensland Government-owned corporation that supplies bulk water to over customers and water consultancy services to a range of institutional clients in the Wide Bay–Burnett and North West regions of Queensland, Australia.

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Telethon

A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other purportedly worthy cause.

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Terms of reference

Terms of reference (TOR) define the purpose and structures of a project, committee, meeting, negotiation, or any similar collection of people who have agreed to work together to accomplish a shared goal.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

The Daily Telegraph is an Australian daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News Limited, a division of News Corp Australia, formerly News Limited.

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The Gympie Times

The Gympie Times is a daily newspaper serving Gympie in Queensland, Australia.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theodore, Queensland

Theodore is a town and a locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia.

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Toowoomba

Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City') is a city in the Darling Downs region in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Trough (meteorology)

A trough is an elongated (extended) region of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with fronts.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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Tugboat

A tug (tugboat or towboat) is a type of vessel that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them either by direct contact or by means of a tow line.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Warwick, Queensland

Warwick is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane.

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Water purification

Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from water.

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Water vapor

No description.

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West End, Queensland

West End is an inner-city suburb of southern Brisbane.

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Wheel of Brisbane

The Wheel of Brisbane is a Bussink R60 transportable Ferris wheel installation in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Withcott

Withcott is a town in the Lockyer Valley region of Queensland, Australia.

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Wivenhoe Dam

The Wivenhoe Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a concrete spillway across the Brisbane River in South East Queensland, Australia.

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World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information center of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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Wulkuraka, Queensland

Wulkuraka is a suburb of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

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Wyaralong Dam

The Wyaralong Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with an un-gated spillway across the Teviot Brook that is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

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1893 Brisbane flood

The 1893 Brisbane flood, occasionally referred to as the Great Flood of 1893 or the Black February flood, occurred when the Brisbane River burst its banks on three occasions in February 1893.

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1955 Hunter Valley floods

The Hunter Valley Floods (also known as the Maitland Flood) of 23rd of February 1955 was a major flood on the Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia.

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1974 Brisbane flood

In January 1974 a flood occurred in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia after three weeks of continual rain.

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1st Division (Australia)

The 1st Division is the main formation of the Australian Army and contains the majority of the Army's regular forces.

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2011 Australian Open

The 2011 Australian Open was a tennis tournament featuring six different competitions, and part of the 2011 ATP World Tour, the 2011 WTA Tour, ITF Junior Tour and the NEC Tour, as tournaments for professional, junior and wheelchair players were held.

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2011 Legends of Origin charity match

The 2011 Legends of Origin charity match was a rugby league football game played on 27 January 2011 at Parramatta Stadium in Sydney.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–11_Queensland_floods

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