As of 15 May 2018, Queensland has a population of 5,000,000, concentrated along the coast and particularly in the state’s South East<\/a>. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane<\/a>, Australia’s third-largest city. Often referred to as the “Sunshine State”, Queensland is home to 10 of Australia’s 30 largest cities and is the nation’s third-largest economy. Tourism in the state, fueled largely by its warm tropical climate, is a major industry.<\/p>\n Queensland was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians<\/a> and Torres Strait Islanders<\/a>. The first European to land in Queensland (and Australia) was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon<\/a> in 1606, who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula<\/a> near present-day Weipa<\/a>. In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook<\/a> claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain<\/a>. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip<\/a> at Sydney<\/a>; New South Wales at that time included all of what is now Queensland, Victoria<\/a> and Tasmania<\/a>. Queensland was explored in subsequent decades until the establishment of a penal colony at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley<\/a>. Penal transportation ceased in 1839 and free settlement was allowed from 1842.<\/p>\n The state was named in honor of Queen Victoria<\/a>, who on 6 June 1859 signed Letters Patent<\/a> separating the colony from New South Wales<\/a>. Queensland Day<\/a> is celebrated annually statewide on 6 June. Queensland was one of the six colonies which became the founding states of Australia with federation on 1 January 1901.<\/p>\n The history of Queensland spans thousands of years, encompassing both a lengthy indigenous presence, as well as the eventful times of post-European settlement. The north-eastern Australian region was explored by Dutch, Spanish and French navigators before being encountered by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. The state has witnessed frontier warfare between European settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, as well as the exploitation of cheap Kanaka<\/a> labour sourced from the South Pacific through a form of forced recruitment known at the time as “blackbirding<\/a>“. The Australian Labor Party<\/a> has its origin as a formal organisation in Queensland and the town of Barcaldine<\/a> is the symbolic birthplace of the party. June 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of its creation as a separate colony from New South Wales. A rare record of early settler life in north Queensland can be seen in a set of ten photographic glass plates taken in the 1860s by Richard Daintree<\/a>, in the collection of the National Museum of Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Aboriginal occupation of Queensland is thought to predate 50,000 BC, likely via boat or land bridge across Torres Strait, and became divided into over 90 different language groups.<\/p>\n During the last ice age Queensland’s landscape became more arid and largely desolate, making food and other supplies scarce. This led to the world’s first seed-grinding technology. Warming again made the land hospitable, which brought high rainfall along the eastern coast, stimulating the growth of the state’s tropical rain-forests.<\/p>\n In February 1606, Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed near the site of what is now Weipa, on the western shore of Cape York. This was the first recorded landing of a European in Australia, and it also marked the first reported contact between European and Aboriginal Australian people. The region was also explored by French and Spanish explorers (commanded by Louis Antoine de Bougainville<\/a> and Lu\u00eds Vaez de Torres<\/a>, respectively) prior to the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. Cook claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III<\/a> of the United Kingdom on 22 August 1770 at Possession Island<\/a>, naming Eastern Australia<\/a>, including Queensland, ‘New South Wales’.<\/p>\n The Aboriginal population declined significantly after a smallpox epidemic during the late 18th century. There has been controversy regarding the origins of smallpox in Australia; while many sources have claimed that it originated with British settlers, this theory has been contradicted by scientific evidence. There is circumstantial evidence that Macassan mariners<\/a> visiting Arnhem Land introduced smallpox to Australia.<\/p>\n In 1823, John Oxley, a British explorer, sailed north from what is now Sydney to scout possible penal colony sites in Gladstone<\/a> (then Port Curtis<\/a>) and Moreton Bay<\/a>. At Moreton Bay, he found the Brisbane River<\/a>. He returned in 1824 and established a settlement at what is now Redcliffe. The settlement, initially known as Edenglassie, was then transferred to the current location of the Brisbane city centre<\/a>. Edmund Lockyer<\/a> discovered outcrops of coal along the banks of the upper Brisbane River in 1825. In 1839 transportation of convicts was ceased, culminating in the closure of the Brisbane penal settlement. In 1842 free settlement was permitted. In 1847, the Port of Maryborough<\/a> was opened as a wool port. The first free immigrant ship to arrive in Moreton Bay was the Artemisia<\/a>, in 1848. In 1857, Queensland’s first lighthouse was built at Cape Moreton.<\/p>\n A war, sometimes called a “war of extermination”, erupted between Aborigines and settlers in colonial Queensland. The Frontier War<\/a> was notable for being the most bloody in Australia, perhaps due to Queensland’s larger pre-contact indigenous population when compared to the other Australian colonies. About 1,500 European settlers and their allies (consisting of Chinese, Aboriginal and Melanesian assistants), were killed in frontier skirmishes during the nineteenth century. Casualties among the Aboriginal people may have exceeded 30,000. The “Native Police Force”, employed by the Queensland government, was key in the oppression of the indigenous people.<\/p>\n On 27 October 1857, Aboriginals retaliating against being poisoned and raped by members of the Fraser family, attacked the Hornet Bank pastoral station on the Dawson River<\/a> killing eleven people. This was one of the largest massacres of British colonists by Indigenous Australians. The largest reported massacre of colonists by Aboriginals was in 1861 on the Nogoa River where 19 people were killed. One author estimates 24,000 Aboriginal men, women and children died at the hands of the Native Police<\/a> in colonial Queensland between 1859 and 1897 alone.<\/p>\n A public meeting was held in 1851 to consider the proposed separation of Queensland from New South Wales. On 6 June 1859, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent to form the separate colony of what is now Queensland. Brisbane was appointed as the capital city. On 10 December 1859, a proclamation was read by British author George Bowen<\/a>, whereby Queensland was formally separated from the state of New South Wales. As a result, Bowen became the first Governor of Queensland. On 22 May 1860 the first Queensland election was held and Robert Herbert<\/a>, Bowen’s private secretary, was appointed as the first Premier of Queensland<\/a>. Queensland also became the first Australian colony to establish its own parliament rather than spending time as a Crown Colony. In 1865, the first rail line in the state opened between Ipswich<\/a> and Grandchester<\/a>.<\/p>\n Queensland’s economy expanded rapidly in 1867 after James Nash discovered gold on the Mary River<\/a> near the town of Gympie<\/a>, sparking a gold rush. While still significant, they were on a much smaller scale than the gold rushes of Victoria and New South Wales.<\/p>\n Immigration to Australia and Queensland in particular began in the 1850s to support the state economy. During the period from the 1860s until the early 20th century, many laborers, known at the time as Kanakas, were brought to Queensland from neighboring Pacific Island nations to work in the state’s sugar cane fields. Some of these people had been kidnapped under a process known as black-birding or press ganging, and their employment conditions amounted to indentured labor or even slavery. Italians had entered the sugar cane industry as early as the 1890s. During the Australian federation of 1901, the White Australia policy came into effect, which saw all foreign workers in Australia deported under the Pacific Island Labourers Act of 1901, which saw the Pacific Islander population of the state decrease rapidly.<\/p>\n On 1 January 1901, Australia was federated following a proclamation by Queen Victoria. During this time, Queensland had a population of half a million people. Brisbane was subsequently proclaimed a city in 1902. In 1905, women voted in state elections for the first time, and the University of Queensland<\/a> was established in 1909. In 1911, The first alternative treatments for polio were pioneered in Queensland and remain in use across the world today.<\/p>\n World War I had a major impact on Queensland<\/a>. Over 58,000 Queenslanders fought in World War I and over 10,000 of them died.<\/p>\n Australia’s first major airline, Qantas<\/a>, was founded in 1920 to serve outback Queensland.<\/p>\n In 1922, Queensland abolished the Upper House<\/a>, becoming the only State with a\u00a0unicameral<\/a>\u00a0State Parliament<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n In 1935, cane toads<\/a> were deliberately introduced to Queensland from Hawaii<\/a> in a poorly-thought-out and unsuccessful attempt to reduce the number of French’s cane and greyback cane beetles<\/a> that were destroying the roots of sugar cane plants, which are integral to Queensland’s economy.<\/p>\n In 1962, the first commercial production of oil in Queensland and Australia began at Moonie<\/a>.<\/p>\n The humid climate\u2014regulated by the availability of air conditioning\u2014saw Queensland become a more accommodating place to work and live for Australian migrants. To this day, it is one of Australia’s economic powerhouses and the third-most populous state in the country.<\/p>\n In 2009, Queensland celebrated Q150<\/a>, its 150th anniversary as an independent colony and state. The Queensland government and other Queensland organisations commemorated the occasion with many events and publications, including the announcement of the top 150 icons of Queensland by the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh<\/a>, and the creation of monuments at significant survey points in Queensland’s history to honour the many early explorer\/surveyors who mapped the state.<\/p>\n Queensland is an expansive area with a wide range of climates and geographical areas. If Queensland were an independent nation, it would be the 16th largest nation on earth. Most of Queensland’s human population is on the East coast, particularly the southeast. Like much of eastern Australia, Queensland has a mountain range that runs roughly parallel with the coast, and areas west (inland) of this mountain range are much more arid than the coastal regions.<\/p>\n Queensland borders the Torres Strait to the north, with Boigu Island<\/a> off the coast of New Guinea<\/a> representing the absolute northern extreme of its territory. The triangular Cape York Peninsula, which points toward New Guinea, is the northernmost part of the state’s mainland. West of the peninsula’s tip, northern Queensland is bordered by the Gulf of Carpentaria<\/a>, while the Coral Sea, an arm of the Pacific Ocean, borders Queensland to the east. To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138\u00b0E longitude, and to the southwest by the northeastern corner of South Australia.<\/p>\n The state capital is Brisbane, a coastal city 60 miles by road north of the New South Wales border. The state is divided into several officially recognized regions. Other smaller geographical regions of note include the Atherton Tablelands<\/a>, the Granite Belt<\/a>, and the Channel Country<\/a> in the far southwest.<\/p>\n Queensland has many areas of natural beauty, including the Sunshine Coast<\/a> and the Gold Coast<\/a>, home to some of the state’s most popular beaches; the Bunya Mountains<\/a> and the Great Dividing Range<\/a>, with numerous lookouts, waterfalls and picnic areas; Carnarvon Gorge<\/a>; Whitsunday Islands<\/a>; and Hinchinbrook Island<\/a>. The state contains six World Heritage<\/a>-listed preservation areas: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites at Riversleigh<\/a> in the Gulf Country, Gondwana Rainforests<\/a> of Australia, Fraser Island<\/a>, Great Barrier Reef<\/a>, Lamington National Park<\/a> and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.<\/a><\/p>\n Queensland’s economy has enjoyed a boom in the tourism and mining industries over the past 20 years. A sizeable influx of interstate and overseas migrants, large amounts of federal government investment, increased mining of vast mineral deposits and an expanding aerospace sector have contributed to the state’s economic growth.<\/p>\n Between 1992 and 2002, the growth in the gross state product of Queensland outperformed that of all the other states and territories. In that period Queensland’s GDP grew 5.0% each year, while growth in Australia’s gross domestic product (GDP) rose on average 3.9% each year. Queensland’s contribution to the Australian GDP increased by 10.4% in that period, one of only three states to do so.<\/p>\n Primary industries include: bananas, pineapples<\/a>, peanuts<\/a>, a wide variety of other tropical and temperate fruit and vegetables, grain crops, wineries, cattle raising, cotton, sugarcane, wool and a mining industry including bauxite, coal, silver, lead, zinc, gold and copper. Secondary industries<\/a> are mostly further processing of the above-mentioned primary produce. For example, bauxite<\/a> is shipped by sea from Weipa and converted to alumina<\/a> at Gladstone. There is also copper refining and the refining of sugar cane to sugar at a number of mills along the eastern coastline. Major tertiary industries<\/a> are the retail trade and tourism.<\/p>\n Tourism is Queensland’s leading tertiary industry with millions of interstate and overseas visitors flocking to the Sunshine State each year. The industry generates $8.8 billion annually, accounting for 4.5% of Queensland’s Gross State Product. It has an annual export of $4.0 billion annually. The sector directly employs about 5.7% of Queensland citizens.<\/p>\n Queensland is a state of many landscapes which range from sunny tropical coastal areas, lush rain-forests to dry inland areas and temperate highland ranges. The main tourist destinations of Queensland include, Brisbane, Cairns<\/a>, Port Douglas<\/a> and the Daintree Rainforest<\/a>, Gold Coast, the Great Barrier Reef, Hervey Bay<\/a> and nearby Fraser Island<\/a>, Townsville<\/a>, Magnetic Island<\/a>, North Stradbroke Island<\/a> and South Stradbroke Island<\/a>, Sunshine Coast, Hamilton Island<\/a>, Daydream Island<\/a> and the Whitsundays<\/a> known for Airlie Beach<\/a> and Whitehaven Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cairns is renowned as the “Gateway to the Barrier Reef” and the heritage listed Daintree Rainforests. The Gold Coast of Queensland is also sometimes referred to as “Australia’s Theme Park Capital”, with five major amusement parks. These are Dreamworld<\/a>, Movie World<\/a>, Sea World<\/a>, Wet ‘n’ Wild<\/a> and WhiteWater World.<\/a><\/p>\n There are numerous wildlife parks in Queensland. On the Gold Coast there is Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a> at Currumbin<\/a> and David Fleay Wildlife Park<\/a> at Burleigh Heads<\/a>. On the Sunshine Coast there is UnderWater World<\/a> at Mooloolaba<\/a> and Australia Zoo<\/a> near Beerwah<\/a>\/Glass House Mountains<\/a>, home of Steve Irwin<\/a> until his death in 2006.<\/p>\n Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary<\/a> at Fig Tree Pocket<\/a> and Brisbane Forest Park<\/a> at The Gap<\/a> are located in Brisbane. North of Brisbane is Alma Park Zoo<\/a> which is relocating to Logan City<\/a> and Kumbartcho Wildlife Sanctuary<\/a> which was originally called Bunya Park Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/p>\n Accommodation in Queensland caters for nearly 22% of the total expenditure, followed by restaurants\/meals (15%), airfares (11%), fuel (11%) and shopping\/gifts (11%).<\/p>\n Queensland is served by a number of National Highways<\/a> and, particularly in South East Queensland, motorways such as the M1<\/a>. The Department of Transport & Main Roads<\/a> oversees the development and operation of main roads and public transport, including taxis and local aviation.<\/p>\n Principal rail services<\/a> are provided by Queensland Rail<\/a> and Pacific National<\/a>, predominantly between the major towns along the coastal strip east of the Great Dividing Range.<\/p>\n Major seaports include the Port of Brisbane<\/a> and subsidiary ports at Gladstone, Townsville and Bundaberg<\/a>. There are large coal export facilities at Hay Point<\/a> \/ Dalrymple Bay, Gladstone and Abbot Point<\/a>. Sugar is another major export, with facilities at Lucinda<\/a> and Mackay<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brisbane Airport<\/a> is the main international and domestic gateway serving the state. Gold Coast Airport<\/a>, Cairns International Airport<\/a> and Townsville Airport<\/a> are the next most prominent airports, all with scheduled international flights. Other regional airports, with scheduled domestic flights, include Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport<\/a>, Great Barrier Reef Airport<\/a>, Hervey Bay Airport<\/a>, Bundaberg Airport<\/a>, Mackay Airport<\/a>, Mount Isa Airport<\/a>, Proserpine \/ Whitsunday Coast Airport<\/a>, Rockhampton Airport<\/a>, and Sunshine Coast Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n South East Queensland has an integrated public transport system operated by TransLink<\/a>, which provides services bus<\/a>, rail, light rail<\/a> and ferry<\/a> services through contracted bus, ferry and light rail operators and Queensland Rail. The TransLink network operates a fare system which allows a single ticket to be used across all modes for the same price irrespective of the number of transfers made on the trip. Regional bus and long-distance rail services are also provided throughout the State. Local bus services are also available in most regional centers.<\/p>\n As at 2017, the city of Gold Coast operates Queensland’s only tram network.<\/p>\n The state flag of Queensland is a British Blue Ensign<\/a> defaced<\/a> with the state badge on a white disc in the fly. The badge is a light blue Maltese Cross<\/a> with an imperial crown in the centre of the cross. The flag dates from 1876, with minor variations, and the badge was designed by William Hemmant<\/a>, the Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of Queensland in 1876.<\/p>\n On 10 December 1859, “a light blue flag with a red St George’s Cross and union in the corner” (now known as the Queensland Separation Flag) was flown in Brisbane to mark Queensland’s separation from New South Wales.<\/p>\n The State Flag was first created in 1870 with the Union Jack upon the royal blue background; however, no Badge was present. In its place was a profile of Queen Victoria on a blue disc surrounded by a white annulus on which the word “Queensland” was inscribed in gold.<\/p>\n The next alteration occurred in 1876 as there were many complaints that the reproduction of Victoria’s head was too difficult and a replacement was called for.<\/p>\n The Maltese Cross impaled with the Crown was chosen out of four proposed designs to replace Victoria’s head.<\/p>\n The final official alteration occurred in 1901 with the death of Queen Victoria. The change was in relation to the crown impaled upon the Maltese Cross; as Victoria and Edward VII had chosen different coronation crowns, the crowns upon the Badge also had to change.<\/p>\n However over the years the monarchs of Australia have chosen differing coronation crowns and therefore, the crowns have unofficially kept up with each change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The state flag of Queensland is a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state badge on a white disc in the fly. The badge is a light blue Maltese Cross with an imperial crown in the centre of the cross. The flag dates from 1876, with minor variations, and the badge was designed by William Hemmant, the Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of Queensland in 1876.<\/p>\n On 10 December 1859, “a light blue flag with a red St George’s Cross and union in the corner” (now known as the Queensland Separation Flag) was flown in Brisbane to mark Queensland’s separation from New South Wales.<\/p>\n The State Flag was first created in 1870 with the Union Jack upon the royal blue background; however, no Badge was present. In its place was a profile of Queen Victoria on a blue disc surrounded by a white annulus on which the word “Queensland” was inscribed in gold.<\/p>\n The next alteration occurred in 1876 as there were many complaints that the reproduction of Victoria’s head was too difficult and a replacement was called for. The Maltese Cross impaled with the Crown was chosen out of four proposed designs to replace Victoria’s head.<\/p>\n The final official alteration occurred in 1901 with the death of Queen Victoria. The change was in relation to the crown impaled upon the Maltese Cross; as Victoria and Edward VII had chosen different coronation crowns, the crowns upon the Badge also had to change. However over the years the monarchs of Australia have chosen differing coronation crowns and therefore, the crowns have unofficially kept up with each change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,61,5,6,7,29,30,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Queensland](\"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/Queensland-in-Australia-300x270.png\" "\\"\\"")
History:<\/h2>\n
Arrival of Aboriginal Australians:<\/h3>\n
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European Arrival:<\/h3>\n
Frontier War:<\/h3>\n
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Colony of Queensland:<\/h3>\n
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20th Century:<\/h3>\n
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21st Century:<\/h3>\n
Geography:<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nEconomy:<\/h2>\n
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Tourism:<\/h3>\n
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Transportation:<\/h2>\n
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Flag of Queensland:<\/h2>\n
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