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The Queensland's Q150 Icons list of cultural icons was compiled as part of Q150 celebrations in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia. It represented the people, places and events that were significant to Queensland 's first 150 years.
104–106 Flinders Street: Queensland Building [10] 108–124 Flinders Street: Burns Philp Building [11] 143–149 Flinders Street East: First AMP Building (later Magnetic House) [12] 173 Flinders Street: Australian Joint Stock Bank Building [13] 175 Flinders Street: Queens Building [14] 181–183 Flinders Street: Atkinson & Powell Building [15]
The Old Windmill is a heritage-listed tower mill in Observatory Park adjacent to Wickham Park at 226 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.It was built in the 1820s by convict labour in the Moreton Bay penal settlement and is the oldest surviving building in Queensland. [1]
As an early penal colony the site was originally home to a cottage, lumber yard, engineer's store and workshops. [3]Queens Gardens was established in several stages between 1905 and 1962, on a site which has been associated both with the earliest phase of the penal settlement at Moreton Bay, and with the establishment of the Church of England in Queensland.
The bridge was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1992. [26] In 1988, the bridge received a Historic Engineering Marker from Engineers Australia. [27] In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Story Bridge was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "structure and engineering feat". [28]
This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia.The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database, on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia, or by the National Trust of Australia.
This social memory may relate to anything from colonisation to local industry to sports. The monuments of Australia reflect the nation's social and political history [2] and by memorialising select moments, contribute to shaping how Australian history is told. Although a significant portion of Australia is desert, the population is highly ...
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