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The Division of Capricornia is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Capricornia is a traditionally a Labor -voting electorate, having been Labor-held for 72 years of the 100 years since 1922.
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.
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 ...
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
The islands and reefs of the Capricorn and Bunker Group are situated astride the Tropic of Capricorn at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, approximately 80 kilometres east of Gladstone, which is situated on the central coast of the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.
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]
Alexander Paterson (24 January 1844 – 23 March 1908) was an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland. Born in Greenock , Scotland , Paterson worked as a shipping manager before migrating to Australia in 1875.
In 1921, the battalion was reformed as part of the Citizens Forces becoming known as the 42nd Battalion (Capricornia Regiment). Following the outbreak of the Second World War the battalion held a number of training exercises and camps until 1941, before being mobilised in March 1942 as part of the 29th Brigade , in the 5th Division .