Bundaberg Rum is a dark rum produced in Bundaberg, Australia, often referred to as " Bundy ".

Bundaberg Rum signed a 5 year deal with the NRL to be the official dark rum of the NRL.

Tallon was born and raised in the Queensland coastal sugar and rum town of Bundaberg, north of Brisbane.

Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).

The Bundaberg Rum Distillery admitted it was aware its brand had a reputation of being associated with aggression, and said it may change its advertising to dispel its " yobbo " image.

Bundaberg as a European township was founded by timbergetters Bob and George Stewart in 1867.

The city was surveyed, laid out and named Bundaberg in 1870.

Timber was the first established industry in Bundaberg.

It was the oldest operating sawmill in the Bundaberg area until it ceased operating on 26 May 2010.

The early sugar industry in Bundaberg was the result of the semi-slave labour carried out by Kanakas.

It is a common misconception that the main street was incorrectly gazetted in the Bundaberg Mail as " Bourbong " instead of " Bourbon " street and the name persisted.

* Prime Ministers Andrew Fisher and Frank Forde both represented Federal electorates that included Bundaberg, though neither was from there originally.

Vance was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 28 August 1885 and attended the Ipswich Grammar School.

In the latter part of 2005, Beattie faced potentially his most serious political crisis: the revelations and inquiries into Queensland Health and the Bundaberg public hospital after Jayant Patel, an Indian-born surgeon who was struck off the register in the United States for malpractice, performed several botched operations in the hospital, some of which resulted in death, and then fled the country to the US.

In what was probably Australia's largest indigenous event, diverse tribes – up to thousands of people – once travelled great distances ( from as far as Charleville, Dubbo, Bundaberg and Grafton ) to the gatherings.

* In 1980, it was announced that a Fremantle class patrol boat was to be named Bundaberg, although this ship was amongst the five Fremantles cancelled in 1982

He was born in Warwick, Queensland, and a theatre supervisor, Queensland State Secretary, Arts Council of Australia and manager of the Bundaberg District Tourism and Development Board before entering politics.

" By noon Cook's ship was in a position a little over half-way across the opening of Hervey Bay heading for Bundaberg.

Hinkler was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, the son of John William Hinkler, a Prussian-born stockman, and his wife Frances Atkins ( nee Bonney ) Hinkler.

It was filled with fuel and flown non-stop to Bundaberg, Queensland, a distance of 1370 km.

In 1983, " Mon Repos ", the house in Thornhill that Bert Hinkler and his de facto wife Hannah ( Nance ) Jarvis built, was saved from demolition and relocated to the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens, serving as a historical museum in his honour until 2008.

On 8 December 2008, the A $ 7. 5 million Hinkler Hall of Aviation was opened to the public in Hinkler's home town of Bundaberg.

A small piece of wood, a relic from one Hinkler's hand-made gliders, was presented to the U. S. astronaut Don Lind in early 1986 as a token of appreciation for his coming to Bundaberg to contribute to the Hinkler Memorial Lectures.

The Premier instigated an independent inquiry into allegations of medical malpractice at Bundaberg Hospital, and in particular the circumstances behind the engagement of the unqualified doctor, Jayant Patel, more popularly known as " Dr Death ", whose involvement was linked to numerous deaths at the hospital.

The Bundaberg Rum Bear advertisements first appeared in 1994.

He later met Arthur Burr Stone, at a travelling show in Bundaberg and again at the Brisbane Exhibition where Hinkler worked with Stone to solve a problem with the " Blériot ", the world's first monoplane.

Hinkler flew the first solo flight between England and Australia, departing England on 7 February 1928 and arriving in Darwin on 22 February 1928 and back in his home town of Bundaberg on 27 February 1928.

Her first stage performance was at the age of six at the Queen's Theatre in Bundaberg, where she sang the American folk song " The Merriest Girl That's Out " with her father accompanying on piano.

Australian Lemon and Lime Bitters produced by the Bundaberg brewing company lists " Gentian Root " as one of the ingredients in its " Bitters Brew ".

The production transferred thence to Brisbane, where it opened at the Opera House on 15 July, and subsequently embarked upon an eight-week repertory tour of other regional centres in Queensland, including Charters Towers, Rockhampton, Bundaberg and Maryborough.

It originated from the Bushells Coffee Chicory bottle that Bundaberg folks sold to his grandfather at the firm for one penny a bottle, after which they were washed and filled with the famous spirit.

Bundaberg from space

Harry Aldridge stated that the scars of initiated men differed from that of Fraser Island in that men on Fraser Island had 5 vertical scars on their chest whereas in Bundaberg the Dundu: ra people had 3 scars across the chest.

In December 2010, Bundaberg experienced its worst floods in 60 years with floodwaters from the Burnett River inundating hundreds of homes.

Another of the city's exports is Bundaberg Rum, made from the sugar cane by-product molasses.

The newspaper in Bundaberg is called the NewsMail and it is published from Monday to Saturday.

View of Bundaberg town centre from the Burnett River bridge.

Access to the islands via boat is available from Gladstone, Bundaberg and 1770.

Category: People from Bundaberg

Category: People from Bundaberg

It is possible that scholarly confusion stems from the geographical region known as Capricornia centred around Rockhampton, which historically encompasses all areas both coastal and inland between Bundaberg and Mackay.

Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, Graduated from Maroochydore State High School, Meninga is an Australian South Sea Islander, a descendant of plantation workers recruited or blackbirded to work in the Queensland sugar industry in the late 19th century.

Category: People from Bundaberg

CQUniversity's Bundaberg campus is located on a 23-hectare site on Bundaberg's southern outskirts, adjacent to the city's airport and six kilometres from its CDB.

Construction of the Paradise Dam on the Burnett River, 80 kilometres upstream from Bundaberg, was completed in November 2005.

The river flows into the ocean at Burnett Heads, roughly 20 km from Bundaberg.

Category: People from Bundaberg

Currently, Endeavour is divided into five geographical Areas for administrative purposes, North ( incorporating Far North Queensland down to Townsville ), Central ( Bundaberg down to Gympie ), Sunshine Coast, South East ( including Brisbane and the Gold Coast ) and South West ( from Ipswich west to the Northern Territory border ).