In tropical and sub-tropical Queensland, however, the koala is smaller ( at around for an average male and just over for an average female ); a lighter often rather scruffy grey in colour ; and has shorter, thinner fur.

Not long afterwards, the club was officially announced as the Brisbane Bears, signing recently-retired Hawthorn player Peter Knights as coach, and unveiling an innovative playing strip consisting of a gold with a maroon yoke and a triangular " BB " logo intended to represent a stylised map of the club's home state, Queensland, with the outline of a koala head appearing inside of the larger B.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.

Following the apparent success of the cane toad in eating the beetles threatening the sugarcane plantations of Puerto Rico, and the fruitful introductions into Hawaii and the Philippines, there was a strong push for the cane toad to be released in Australia to negate the pests that were ravaging the Queensland cane fields.

While travelling south along the north Queensland coast, the Gothenburg encountered a cyclone-strength storm and was wrecked on a section of the Great Barrier Reef.

In 2012, a significant group of about 40 was found at Eulo, South-West Queensland.

In Queensland the high-volume Power's brewery was established by local entrepreneur Bernie Power.

Power's Brewery, south of Brisbane, was taken over by CUB and is now used to brew Victoria Bitter and other Foster's Group brands in Queensland, ( including Foster's Lager ).

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Quentin Bryce's appointment was announced during her term as Governor of Queensland ; she had previously been the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

Botham was also sacked from the Queensland team after being arrested for assault of a fellow airline passenger.

HM Bark Endeavour Replica | Endeavour replica in Cooktown, Queensland harbour — anchored where the original Endeavour was beached for 7 weeks in 1770.

Mabo v Queensland ( No 2 ) ( commonly known as Mabo ) was a landmark High Court of Australia decision recognising native title in Australia for the first time.

The action was brought as a test case to determine the legal rights of the Meriam people to land on the islands of Mer ( Murray Island ), Dauar and Waier in the Torres Strait, which were annexed to the state of Queensland in 1879.

In 1985 the Queensland Government attempted to terminate the proceedings by enacting the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act 1985, which declared that on annexation of the islands in 1879, title to the islands was vested in the state of Queensland " freed from all other rights, interests and claims whatsoever ".

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities.

In 1962 the QLP merged with the Democratic Labor Party, which had previously been largely inactive in Queensland.

Wavell Heights, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, was named in his honour in 1941, after a request by the Brisbane City Council to rename an area which had been previously known as West Nundah.

Griffith was one of two justices of the High Court of Australia to have previously served in the Parliament of Queensland, along with Charles Powers.

He was also one of three justices to have previously served on the Supreme Court of Queensland, along with William Webb and Harry Gibbs.

Qintex had previously bought, and subsequently sold off, stations in Brisbane and regional Queensland before taking control of the network.

SA members are, or have previously been active in student unions such as the Queensland University of Technology Student Guild, Swinburne Student Union, La Trobe Student Union, Monash Student Association, University of Melbourne Student Union, RMIT Student Union, University of Western Sydney Students ' Association, University of Sydney Union, Charles Sturt University Students ' Association, Curtin University of Technology Student Guild, University of New South Wales Student Representative Council, University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association and Victorian College of the Arts Student Union.

Queensland previously celebrated the holiday in June, however from 2012 it will be celebrated in October, with both dates public holidays in 2012.

Lyon, also referred to as the " father of the Press " in the colony of Queensland, had previously served as a writer and journalist in Melbourne and he would move on to found and edit journals such as Moreton Bay Free Press, North Australian and Darling Downs Gazette.

Lukin's part-ownership and managing editorship proprietorship changed hands on 21 December 1880 to the former ' Postmaster General ' in the first McIlwraith government, Charles Hardie Buzacott ( 1835 – 1918 ), who had previously served as a journalist on the staff and otherwise had a distinguished career as a Queensland newspaper editor and proprietor.

The purchase did not proceed, although at the time Hoyts still hoped to return to Queensland, where previously they had owned theatres in Brisbane and a three cinema complex in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast.

Plans to decommission mining were changed once again, when on 22 March 2011 the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced that the Enterprise Mine will now be forced to shut in 2019, eight years earlier than previously agreed.

MacAir had previously asked the Queensland government for a $ 7 million one-off ex gratia payment, but the government refused, saying that MacAir had " systemic issues.

Its most prominent member was Ted Theodore, who was Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer in the Scullin government, having previously been Premier of Queensland.

Powers was one of two justices of the Court to have previously served in the Parliament of Queensland, along with Samuel Griffith.

Following a court decision the AFULEQ was federally registered but restricted to operating in Queensland after agreeing to amend its previously broad ranging application.

The territory of the Shire of Aurukun was previously an Aboriginal reserve administered under the Queensland Aborigines Act by the Presbyterian Church.

Gubbi Gubbi were previously designated the main anthropological group identified in the South East Queensland region.

He made his first-class debut for Queensland at 17 against Victoria in December 1933, having never previously attended a first-class match as a spectator.

The previously competed in the NSL from 1977 – 1988 and had competed in the Queensland State League since then as the Brisbane Lions, who are no relation to the city's AFL team, who shared the same name as them.

The English-born former teacher is the weeknight presenter of Nine News Queensland with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends.