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The Gap State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at the corner of Waterworks and Settlement Roads [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 593 students with 44 teachers (36 full-time equivalent) and 31 non-teaching staff (18 full-time equivalent). [ 36 ]
Oxley is a south-western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [5] It is 14.8 kilometres (9.2 mi) from the Brisbane GPO by road. [6] The suburb contains a mix of residential and industrial land. [7] In the 2021 census, Oxley had a population of 9,100 people. [1]
The proposal was approved by the Brisbane City Council in May 2011, with the store opening in January 2014. [31] The stretch between Queen Street and Elizabeth Street holds other well known luxury brands, with super-luxury Australian jeweller Canturi having his only Brisbane salon in the Tattersalls Arcade, opposite French leather making Longchamp.
Land sales occurred on Wickham Terrace in 1856. Because Spring Hill is higher than main Brisbane township, it was attractive for its views and cooling breezes. The better ventilation afforded by the breezes was also believed to create a healthier place to life, due to the prevailing belief in miasma (that disease was spread through bad air ...
Westfield Mt Gravatt was opened as one of Brisbane's largest shopping centre on 1 October 1970 by Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It cost $10 million and occupied a 28-acre (11 ha). [9] [10] The Garden City Library was established by the Brisbane City Council as one of the initial tenants and the library had a major refurbishment in ...
Scenes for the feature film Jucy (2010) were shot at the now-defunct video store Trash Video in the suburb. [51] The suburb was affected by the 2010–2011 Queensland floods as the Brisbane River broke its banks. [52] From 11 January low-lying areas of the suburb and other places in Brisbane were evacuated.
The Brisbane Hilton hotel has it main entrance on Elizabeth Street. The offices at Central Plaza Two have their entrance at the easterly end or downtown part of the street. There is good pedestrian access around the street, such as pathways near the General Post Office and access to the Queen Street bus station via the Myer Centre.
The name of the area first appeared in local maps in 1891 and 1895, when it was in the possession of landowners David Ham, John James Kingsbury (Ham's son-in-law) and Acheson Overend. The name was taken from the "Seven Hills Estate Co", a mining company whose own name reflected the terrain of the Creswick area north of Ballarat and of which Ham ...