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Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian ...
As a result of the inconsistent adoption of daylight saving, during the Australian summer the mainland's three standard time zones increase to five time zones. South Australia time diverges from Northern Territory time to become UTC+10:30, known as Central Daylight Time (CDT) or Australia Central Daylight Time (ACDT), while the time in the ...
Another theory was proposed by botanist Archibald Meston in a book titled A Geographical History of Queensland. He wrote: [11] "Toowoom" or "Choowom" was the local blacks' name for a small native melon (Cucumis pubescens) which grew plentifully on the site of the township. The terminal "ba" is equal to the adverb "There", so the whole word ...
The term "Time Zone" is misused throughout; Time Zone is rightly governed by Standard (Winter) Time, and has nothing to do with Summer Time a.k.a. DST. See Time Zone and Standard time, etc. 94.30.84.71 20:28, 18 February 2012 (UTC) I think a time zone should be a region of land. We may also speak of a sort of "Time" observed in such a region ...
Sharon State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 18 Sharon School Road (21] [22] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 116 students with 10 teachers (8 full-time equivalent) and 8 non-teaching staff (5 full-time equivalent).
Gladstone (/ ˈ ɡ l æ d s t ən /) is a coastal city in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, the Gladstone urban area had a population of 45,185 people. [1] It is 517 km (321 mi) by road north-west of the state capital, Brisbane, and 108 km (67 mi) south-east of Rockhampton.
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 ...
Allora is on the Darling Downs in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, 160 kilometres (99 mi) by road south-west of the state capital, Brisbane. [4] The town is located on the New England Highway between Warwick and Toowoomba. [5]