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A plan of Brisbane Town drawn by draftsman H. W. Marriott on 24 March 1840 was forwarded to the New South Wales Surveyor-General by Surveyor Henry Wade on 26 April 1842. This plan was ranked #48 in the ‘Top 150: Documenting Queensland’ exhibition when it toured to venues around Queensland from February 2009 to April 2010. [9]
The tribunal was established under the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act (2009). [2] Civil disputes in which the amount in dispute is more than $750,000 are heard by the Supreme Court of Queensland, while those in which the amount is $150,000 or less are heard by either the Magistrates Court or the QCAT. [3]
Maryborough is located on the Mary River in Queensland, Australia, approximately 255 kilometres (160 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city is served by the Bruce Highway. It is closely tied to its neighbour city Hervey Bay which is approximately 30 kilometres (20 mi) northeast.
a dispute settlement clause in the Gordonstone coal certified agreement created a power of private arbitration, not the exercise of the judicial power of the Commonwealth. Pilmer v Duke Group Ltd (in liq) 2001 Gleeson - whether a contract gives rise to fiduciary duties is always a matter of construction. Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall ...
The prosperity of the colony was measured according to the extent of land settlement. Rent from land leases was the colony's largest revenue earner. The initial political contest was between pastoralists and selectors led by the "town liberals" who desired that immigrants have an equitable right to small land holdings (known as closer settlement).
The case was closely related to another proceeding in the High Court (Mabo v Queensland (No 2), [4] decided in 1992) which was a dispute between the Meriam people (of the Mer Islands in the Torres Strait) and the Government of Queensland, in which several Meriam people, principally Eddie Mabo, contested that they had certain native title rights over the Murray Islands.
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It has been suggested that Banjo Paterson's song Waltzing Matilda, an unofficial Australian anthem, was written about this era of shearers' industrial disputes in Queensland. [8] [9] It was the subject of the play Hail Tomorrow and radio serial Two Worlds both by Vance Palmer. The strike was the background to the popular stage musical Reedy River.