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Queensland

2023

28 February

Recovery continues across QLD and NSW; resilience and disaster funding become major policy themes

2022

28 February

Severe flooding hits Brisbane, Lismore and surrounding regions; one of Australia’s worst flood disasters.

2021

13 July

Queensland regains travel bubble and quarantine-free flights to New Zealand. [Covid-19]

2021

29 March

A 3 day lockdown is imposed on the Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich and Redlands to stop the spread of a UK COVID-19 variant

2020

31 October

Queensland state election : Annastacia Palaszczuk's Labor government is returned for a third term with an increased majority

2020

11 April

Queensland banned interstate arrivals, with only Queensland residents and those granted 'exemption' being allowed entry [Covid-19]

1982

30 September

Brisbane hosts the Commonwealth Games

1979

05 January

Highest rainfall in Australia over 24hrs, recorded at Bellenden Ker, Queensland - 1140mm (45").

1920

16 November

QANTAS established

1884

15 June

Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is opened

1872

01 October

Brisbane Telegraph begins publication

1872

28 September

Brisbane's first General Post Office (GPO) opens

1872

31 May

Free compulsary & secular education. The first of colonies to introduce such legislation

1859

06 June

Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales

1848

15 June

To help colonizers settle in southern Queensland, the New South Wales Government formed a Native Police force of Aboriginal troopers and European officers in 1848.

1825

22 January

Founding of Brisbane, Moreton Bay Penal Settlement

1770

20 April

James Cook discovers the east coast of Australia

1606

01 August

Spanish seaman Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through the Torres Strait, between Australia and New Guinea, along the latter's southern coast

1606

01 March

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Duyfken, under Captain Willem Janszoon, explored the western coast of Cape York Peninsula. This was the first recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil.

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