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Moranbah is a coal mining town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Moranbah had a population of 9,425 people. [1] In addition to the permanent population, Moranbah also has a large fly-in fly-out population working in Moranbah's mines: in excess of 1,500. [4]
The Moranbah North Coal Mine is a coal mine in the Bowen Basin at Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 261 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 8 million tonnes of coal. [1]
This is a list of places in Queensland by urban centre population. Urban Centres by population ... North Queensland: 29 Moranbah: 8,899 [85] 8,333 [86] 8,626 [87 ...
The hospital was created by the merging of the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital in 2003. [6] The women's hospital was demolished first, in 1998, to make way for the new building, after which the acute hospital was demolished. In the same year the hospital precinct was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. [7]
The 2 Women's Hospital was retained and the Australian Government purchased the property in 1946. [1] After the war, those women who had participated in the services and in paid employment were asked to resume their pre-war lives. The AAMWS and other women's service organisations were demobilised, a process which took many months.
The hospital was renamed the 'Mater Misericordiae' (Mother of Mercy), the title given to all hospitals operated by the Sisters of Mercy. When this hospital was found to be inadequate to meet the demands of modern health care, a property was purchased in Fulham Road and a new 50-bed hospital was opened in 1962.
The Burton Range is in the centre of the locality with a north-south orientation. [3]Burton sits on a major coal deposit in the Bowen Basin.There are a number of coal mines operating there (and beyond into adjacent localities), including Burton Coal Mine (including Burton, Broadmeadow, Wallanbah pits), [4] Lancewood, Wards Well, West Burton, New Lenton, Kerlong, Burton, Plumtree, Ironbark No 1 ...
The nearest government secondary school is Moranbah State High School, also in Moranbah. [6] However, most of Pasha is too distant from these schools for a daily commute; the alternatives are distance education and boarding school.