According to the Government of Australia's ' Excellence in Research for Australia ' report, the leading universities in the country for media studies ( which were ranked well above World standards by the report's scoring methodology ) are Monash University, QUT, RMIT, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and UTS.

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 ".

* The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM ), with the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations to be held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, was postponed.

In 1967, the Queensland Government established the Simpson Desert National Park.

The Governor of Queensland, Sir Colin Hannah, gave a speech denigrating the Whitlam Government on 15 October, in violation of the convention that state governors remain neutral.

The Government of Queensland engaged engineers from Delft University in the Netherlands to advise what to do about the beach erosion.

The Queensland Government actively supports the film and television production industry in Queensland and provides both non-financial and financial assistance through the Pacific Film and Television Commission.

* Gladstone Regional Council, Queensland Local Government Area

* City of Gladstone, former Queensland Local Government Area

The fishing industry in the Great Barrier Reef, controlled by the Queensland Government, is worth A $ 1 billion annually.

On National Parks Day 2010 ( Sunday, 28 March 2010 ) the Queensland State Government announced the addition of 204 hectares to the park.

In 1991, the Government of Queensland purchased two properties, Currawinya and Caiwarro Homestead.

* D ' Aguilar National Park — Queensland Government website

* Queensland Government, Environment and Resource Management, Official site for Girraween National Park

On the 23 June 2010 the Queensland Government announced the expansion of the park to include an additional 2, 117 hectares.

* Queensland Government Department of Environment and Resource Management / Parks & Wildlife Services

He named it Bon Accord before gifting it to the Queensland Government who, during the fifties, renamed it Kondalilla which is an Aboriginal word for running water.

Lakefield was gazetted in 1979, after the Queensland Government purchased several cattle stations the previous year.

On National Parks Day 2010 ( 28 March ) the Government of Queensland announced the addition of 2, 810 ha to the park.

On National Parks Day 2010 ( Sunday, 28 March 2010 ), the Queensland State Government announced the addition of 6, 510 hectares to the Paluma Range National Park.

* Queensland State Government announcement

In 1975, Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam recommended to the Queen that Sir Colin Hannah, then Governor of Queensland, have his dormant commission revoked for having made public political statements.

The decision was based on the findings of fact made by Justice Moynihan of the Supreme Court of Queensland: that the Murray Islanders had a strong sense of relationship to the islands and regarded the land as theirs.

As a specialist batsman, he made his first class debut for New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground against Queensland in the New Year's match of the 1948-49 season.

The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.

Of 63 printers evaluated in the Queensland University of Technology study, 17 of the strongest emitters were made by Hewlett-Packard and one by Toshiba.

The Sandown races dates back to 1964 but after the race was made available for someone else to run it moved to Queensland Raceway from 1999-2002.

Just prior to the election, Hanson made comments to The Queensland Times – a daily newspaper in Ipswich – advocating the abolition of special government assistance for Aborigines above what was available for other Australians.

Extensions were made to the applicability of the Fair Rents Act whilst compulsory marketing along the lines of what existed in Queensland was introduced.

Hanson, an endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Oxley, Queensland at the 1996 federal election, had been disendorsed by the party shortly before the elections due to comments opposing " race-based welfare ," made to a local newspaper in Ipswich, Queensland.

Against Queensland at the SCG, Bradman set a then world record for first-class cricket by scoring 452 not out ; he made his runs in only 415 minutes.

Despite repeated denials made in the popular press and on his website, Fenech pleaded guilty to his role in the theft of 3 gold watches worth a total of $ 327 from a Gold Coast, Queensland boutique store.

Bosnich made his A-League debut with the Central Coast Mariners on 31 August 2008 in a 4 – 2 away win against the Queensland Roar at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

An arrangement was made with the University of Queensland that the College would awards degrees from that institution.

In the absence of a number of Test players, Border made his debut against Queensland at the SCG in January 1977.

A distinction is sometimes made between looped cursive hand ( writing ), such as the D ' Nealian method, in which the risers of the letters are slanted loops, and letters such as f, r, s, z, D, F, G, L, Q are quite distinct in shape from their printed counterparts, and cursive italic, such as Getty-Dubay, Portland, Eager, Queensland, Barchowsky, and Icelandic which are all derived from chancery cursive.

A crocodile shot in Queensland in 1957 was reported to be long, but no verified measurements were made and no remains of this crocodile exist.

The patterns of allocation provide a way of tracking the history of settlement of the state, although made complex by re-allocations as post offices closed or jurisdiction was transferred, as happened when Queensland became a separate colony.

In 1925, 1926 and 1929, Premier Jack Lang made attempts at abolishing the Legislative Council, following the example of the Queensland Legislative Council in 1922, but all were unsuccessful.

At the time of the rerouting of the New England Highway to Wallangarra and the naming of the Mount Lindesay Highway, arrangements were made by the NSW Department of Main Roads with the Queensland Main Roads Department to name the onward routes from Wallangarra and Mount Lindesay to Brisbane as the New England and Mount Lindesay Highways respectively.

At the time of the rerouting of the New England Highway to Wallangarra and the naming of the Mount Lindesay Highway, arrangements were made by the NSW Department of Main Roads with the Queensland Main Roads Department to name the onward routes from Wallangarra and Mount Lindesay to Brisbane as the New England and Mount Lindesay Highways respectively.

This coach is likely to have been made by the Cobb & Co coachworks either at their Charleville, Queensland or Bathurst, New South Wales, NSW factory.

The Queensland lungfish has very complex courtship behavior made up of three distinct phases.

Born in Melbourne and raised in Queensland, Towers ' club career was with Randwick DRUFC in Sydney for whom he made 233 first grade appearances.

She made her first class debut in 1995 for Queensland Women and her Test debut against New Zealand at Melbourne in February 1996.