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In 1994, the new alignment opened with the new Mackay railway station in the outer suburb of Paget. [6] [7] [8] St Patrick's College opened on 22 September 1929. [4] The State Conference of the Queensland Country Womens Association held in Mackay in 1954 at the Mackay Branch of the QCWA Rooms at 43 Gordon Street, Mackay.
The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869.
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Mackay (/ m ə ˈ k aɪ / [3] [4] [5]) is a city in the Mackay Region on the eastern or Coral Sea coast of Queensland, Australia. [6] [7] It is located about 970 kilometres (603 mi) north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is described as being in either Central Queensland or North Queensland, as these regions are not precisely
It was an occasion for extensive celebrations in Mackay. [19] [20] On 1 July 1968, the Queensland Place Names Board officially named the locality Mackay Harbour. [2] In 1981, the current Mackay Harbour Branch was opened, replacing an earlier branch railway that took a different route via the Mackay CBD. [15]
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The City of Mackay was a local government area located in the Central Queensland region of Queensland, Australia, encompassing the regional city of Mackay and the surrounding region. The City was created as a municipal borough in 1869, and prior to amalgamation with the Shire of Pioneer in 1994, the City was limited to the central suburbs on ...
The Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday region is centred on the coastal city of Mackay and extends some 300 km inland. It contains the Whitsunday Islands group and the coastal towns of Bowen, Proserpine, and Sarina. The coastal areas are densely covered in sugar cane farms, while the less densely populated inland areas have several mining communities.