He finished his career in a semi-final clash at Suncorp Stadium against the Brisbane Broncos, with the Dragons losing 13 – 12, after a Darren Lockyer field goal in extra time.

In the halves, Lockyer won a fourth grand final with the Broncos, a record six consecutive State of Origin series with Queensland, and a second Golden Boot Award.

They then won the preliminary final against the Bulldogs 37 – 20 after trailing 20 – 6 at half-time, with Lockyer named man of the match.

Lockyer then captained Australia to an extra-time victory in the 2006 Tri-nations final against New Zealand, scoring the match-winning try in Australia's 16 – 12 victory.

In the week leading to the final, Lockyer was named the Golden Boot Award-winner for international player of the year for the second time.

In August 2008, Lockyer was named in the preliminary 46-man Kangaroos squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, and in October 2008 he was selected in the final 24-man Australia squad.

Lockyer scored two tries and was awarded the player of the match medal in the losing effort against the Kiwis at the World Cup final.

On 28 March 2011, Lockyer announced his retirement stating that the 2011 season will be his final year in the National Rugby League after deciding not to go to the Super League with the promoted Widnes Vikings

Lockyer set up and made the final pass for Billy Slater's match winning try.

Lockyer played his final game of Origin alongside 5 of his current Broncos team-mates, being Justin Hodges, Jharal Yow Yeh, Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker and Ben Hannant, as well as two former team-mates, Petero Civoneceva and Darius Boyd.

However, after the ANZAC Test, in which Lockyer scored two tries in Australia's 50 – 12 defeat of New Zealand, the critics eased off.

On 1 May, Lockyer was named captain in the 17-man squad for the annual ANZAC Test Match in his usual position of five-eighth, he will be joined by four other Brisbane Broncos team-mates, Justin Hodges, Jharal Yow Yeh, Sam Thaiday and Ben Hannant, as well as 9 team-mates from his Queensland team ; Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Johnathan Thurston, Petero Civoniceva, Cameron Smith, Matt Scott, Cooper Cronk and Dave Shillington.

On 27 October 2007, Lockyer married Loren Pollock, his girlfriend of three years, coincidentally on the same day his immediate predecessor as Australian Test captain, Andrew Johns also tied the knot.

Queensland then made an impressive comeback in Origin 2, thumping the Blues 30 – 6 while Lockyer received the Man of the Match award.

In the series sealing victory in Game II, Lockyer was named Man of the Match.

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).

Of these, 5 were later pardoned, while Robert Lockyer ( or Lockier ), a former Levellers agitator, was hanged on April 27, 1649.

It is a small scenic park on the Great Dividing Range overlooking the Lockyer Valley.

The concept of " ley lines " originates with Alfred Watkins, though Watkins also drew on earlier ideas about alignments, in particular the work of the English astronomer Norman Lockyer, who argued that ancient alignments might be oriented to sunrise and sunset at solstices.

Cricket: the first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter ( cricketer ) | Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer ; middle row John Wisden, HH Stephenson, George Parr ( cricketer ) | George Parr, James Grundy ( cricketer ) | James Grundy, Julius Caesar ( cricketer ) | Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward ( cricketer ) | Thomas Hayward, John Jackson ( cricketer ) | John Jackson ; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite

In his work on the identification of helium, Lockyer collaborated with the noted chemist Edward Frankland.

* The crater Lockyer on the Moon and the crater Lockyer on Mars are both named after him.

Bus Queensland Lockyer Valley operates bus services on behalf of Queensland Rail to Gatton and Helidon.

Later in 1826, on Christmas Day, a British Army expedition, led by Major Edmund Lockyer arrived on the Amity, from Sydney, and founded a military base.

Sidmouth is home to the Norman Lockyer Observatory and Planetarium, located on Salcombe Hill.

* 1826-On Christmas Day, just after the Astrolabe left, a military outpost was established on behalf of New South Wales at Albany with the arrival of Major Edmund Lockyer on the Amity.

The Success then sailed to King George Sound, to pick up Major Edmund Lockyer and unload provisions for the settlement there, after which the ship returned to New South Wales, anchoring off Sydney Heads on 16 April.

* Same-sex marriage in the United States: The California Supreme Court refuses a petition by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asking for an immediate ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage laws and a cease and desist order against San Francisco's granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

* March 26-Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates helium on Earth by treating the mineral cleveite .< ref > These samples are identified as helium by Norman Lockyer and William Crookes.

Clark's father, Frank Lockyer, who is a retired senior police officer, complained to the GMC, alleging serious professional misconduct on the part of Meadow.

** The Supreme Court of California refuses a petition by state Attorney General Bill Lockyer asking for an immediate ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage and a cease and desist order to prevent San Francisco from granting marriage licenses to more same-sex couples.

" In two separate opinions handed down on the same day, the court upheld California's three strikes law against an attack on direct appeal from conviction, Ewing v. California, 538 U. S. 11, and a collateral attack through a petition for habeas corpus, Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U. S. 63 ( 2003 ).

PIW ’ s attack on Greenpeace was also taken up by Californian Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes, who urged that State Attorney-General Lockyer prosecute Greenpeace under various laws, including the state's unfair-business-practice law.

* J. N. Lockyer, Observations on the Planet Mars ( Abstract ), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.

In June 2001, Lockyer announced that with an expanded DNA Lab staff and new equipment, the backlog of unanalyzed blood samples had been entirely eliminated, leading to identification of suspects in homicide cases more than 15 years old.

At the end of the 2003 NRL season, the retirement of Tallis from representative football meant that the Kangaroos captaincy was handed to Lockyer shortly before the 2003 Kangaroo tour.

Here he played against Darren Lockyer, who was playing for the Junior Kangaroos at the time.

At the end of the season, Lockyer played at fullback in the Broncos ' 2000 NRL Grand Final victory over the Sydney Roosters, and was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for best and fairest player on the field.

In the third and deciding game of the series, Lockyer was named man-of-the-match, having scored two tries and kicked four goals to help Queensland to victory.

During the 2009 Four Nations tournament, in which Lockyer captained Australia to victory, he also broke records for most-capped Australian player and most games for Australia as captain.

Lockyer ended his career captaining the Australian national team to victory in the 2011 Four Nations.