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Queensland's first railway linked Grandchester to Ipswich, 1865. South East Queensland was home to around 20,000 Aboriginals prior to British occupation. The local tribes of the area were the Yugarapul of the Central Brisbane area; the Yugambeh people whose traditional lands ranged from South of the Logan River, down to the Tweed River and west to the McPherson Ranges; the Quandamooka people ...
World's Oldest Rodeo in Prescott, White Mountain Apache Tribe Fair and Rodeo starts on a Wednesday night with the Thunder on the Mountain Bullbash ending with the finals on Monday; World's Oldest Continuous Rodeo in Payson, started in 1884. Third weekend of August. Taylor's Annual 4 July Night Rodeo. Saturday before or after the 4th.
The largest and oldest event is run by the Australian Professional Rodeo Association, held each year in January over 4 days at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Broadbeach, Queensland. The APRA event was first held in 1960 as the first in Australian rodeo history.
South Eastern Queensland is an interim Australian bioregion located in south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales. [1] It has an area of 7,804,921 hectares (19,286,380 acres). [ 2 ] It is one of the most biodiverse bioregions in Australia.
Some of the large events in New South Wales are at Tamworth which runs a big rodeo at the Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre, Sydney has the large (RAS) show and Walcha holds a four-day campdrafting and rodeo competition annually. Omeo, Victoria also holds a large rodeo, with lucrative prize money for the bronc riding competition.
The significance of the first exhibition held in 1876 was described by locals as the most important event since the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. [2] In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Ekka was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as an "event and festival". [3]
The Somerset region in South East Queensland was originally settled by European pastoralists in the 1840s after the New South Wales Government had opened up the land around the penal colony at Moreton Bay. The pioneers of this region sought land along the Brisbane and Stanley Rivers for raising sheep. There were several exploration maps to ...
The first ever Queensland Sheffield Shield game was played at the ground, with Queensland losing to longtime arch-rivals New South Wales. The Test against England in 1928/29 was the first Test played in Brisbane and was the debut of Don Bradman who scored 18 and 1.