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However, settlers agitated to divide the colonies throughout the later part of the century ; particularly in central Queensland ( centred in Rockhampton ) in the 1860s and 1890s, and in North Queensland ( with Bowen as a potential colonial capital ) in the 1870s.

Other secession ( or territorial separation ) movements arose and these advocated the secession of New England in northern central New South Wales, Deniliquin in the Riverina district also in NSW, and Mount Gambier in the eastern part of South Australia.