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The suburb of Willawong was officially created and named by the Queensland Places Names Board in 1970. Willawong is an Aboriginal word meaning the junction of two creeks. [3] [5] During the 1974 Brisbane flood, most of the suburb was inundated. [5] In 1983, local residents in Willawong and nearby suburbs began a campaign to stop sand mining in ...
2020 Queensland local elections: Moorooka Ward [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor: Steve Griffiths 10,416 49.9 −0.3 Liberal National: Warren Craze 5,234 25.1 −4.8 Greens: Claire Garton 4,209 20.2 +4.2 Independent: Brett Gillespie 1,000 4.8 +4.8 Total formal votes 20,859 Informal votes 727 Turnout: 21,586 Two-party-preferred result Labor ...
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]
On 8 August 1995, as southern Queensland experienced a severe cold snap, a temperature of 0 degrees was recorded in Archerfield. [5] On 4 January 2014, the suburb recorded a maximum temperature of 42.4 degrees, just under the record maximum set in 1940.
Mount Lindesay Highway is an Australian national highway located in Queensland.The highway runs southwest from Brisbane, where it leaves Ipswich Road in the suburb of Moorooka (as Beaudesert Road to the Logan Motorway), to the Queensland – New South Wales border and is 116 kilometres (72 mi) in length. [1]
Pallara State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 39 Ritchie Road (8] [9] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 500 students with 30 teachers (29 full-time equivalent) and 22 non-teaching staff (13 full-time equivalent). [10]
In the 2011 census, Durack had a population of 6,177 people, 51.6% female and 48.4% male.The median age of the Durack population was 38 years of age, 1 year above the Australian median. 54.6% of people living in Durack were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 14.3%, New Zealand 3.9%, England 3.2%, Samoa 1.5% ...
The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of Greater Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Its governing body is the Brisbane City Council . The LGAs in the other mainland state capitals ( Sydney , Melbourne , Perth and Adelaide ) are generally responsible only for the central business ...