Mathew

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= = = = =Queensland= 

HISTORY
**Aboriginals**   Over Queensland aboriginals lived in 208 clans, they also spoke many different languages. In Queensland there were 100,000 aboriginals living in Australia, when the Europeans found it. The Europeans didn’t respect the aboriginals because the Europeans tried to take over and they did take over. Aboriginals set fire to the land to make it better travel.

 Europeans Queensland had been invaded by the Europeans in1824, in the same year the Europeans fought at Morton Bay because they didn’t respect the aboriginals. 

 =Landmarks and Tourist Attractions= In Queensland one of the major attractions is the Queensland Racing Carnival. Theme parks are great tourist attractions like Movie World, Wet ’N’ Wild, Sea World and Dream World. Riverside markets are major tourist attractions. =Government and Laws= The Queensland government is in charge of sporting facilities, childcares, libraries and a lot of other things as well. The Parliament of Queensland has only one house the Legislative Assembly. In1993 there were 6504 police officers in Queensland, there are 11 prisons two of them are of them are woman’s = = 

FACTS
Queensland is the second biggest state in Australia. The Queensland time zone is the same as Victoria because it is in the Eastern Time zone. The climate for Queensland is basically the same all year expect for winter. The Koala is the faunal emblem; the floral emblem is the Cooktown orchid. Brisbane is the capital city. The population is 4,182,100 that’s a lot of people.

 Native Plants and Animals Koalas are being threatened by dogs; koalas sleep for twenty hours a day. Plant eaters have found a way of not being poisoned. Queensland has more than eight thousand species of flowering.

= Mapping and Directions = <span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The distance from Bendigo to Brisbane is 1620km. It will take two hours flying to get to the gold coast from Bendigo. The flight from Sydney to Brisbane will take one hour and twenty-five minutes by flight.

References <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Queensland Government [] Robert, G 1997, //Queensland//, Heinemann Library, Melbourne. Google Images [] Google Images [] Google Images [] Google Images []