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Capricornia (1938) is the debut novel by Xavier Herbert. [1]Like his later work considered by many a masterpiece, the Miles Franklin Award-winning Poor Fellow My Country, it provides a fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place clearly modelled specifically on Australia's Northern Territory, and to a lesser degree on tropical Australia in general, (i.e. anywhere north of the Tropic of ...
He did not publish his first book, Capricornia, until 1938. Capricornia was in part based on Herbert's experiences as Protector of Aborigines in Darwin, though it was written in London between 1930 and 1932. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Australia's Best Novel of 1939. [3]
Capricornia, Queensland, a region of the coast located around Rockhampton, Queensland; Division of Capricornia, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives based around the region; Capricornia, a proposed new Australian State based in northern Queensland
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Capricornia is the eleventh studio album by Australian band Midnight Oil, released in February 2002 by Columbia Records in Australia and Liquid 8 Records in America. It was their last studio album until 2020.
Colin Lawrence Carige (19 July 1938 – 15 May 2002), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1975 to 1977, representing the Division of Capricornia. He held the seat for the National Country Party. Carige was born in Mount Morgan. His livelihood was earned in small business, having variously owned a ...
The history of the sugar industry on the Capricorn Coast was a short one, commencing in 1883 and ending twenty years later, but its effects still linger today. [citation needed] The Yeppoon Sugar Company was the brainchild of William Broome who had property a few kilometres north of Yeppoon.