As far as Sydney, the government sent
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temporary hospitals, customs and courts for the demolished buildings,
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officials to manage them, and surveyors to lay out and name the streets. and arrived at the scene. ” Similar complaints concerning “the Brisbane octopus” had begun a
century earlier and risen to a great climax in the 1890s.
Then the first parliament met in 1860 and recognized that Australia - the second largest state needed some form of power transfer
and soon railways started running west from the ports of Brisbane , Rockhampton and Townsville.
his independence as a civic leader transformed Rockhampton from a "dusty cow town" into the beautiful
supply town, the beautiful
theatre, named after someone else, Pilbeam, and a gallery of art with one of the finest collections of Australian art anywhere. Rockhampton (and Townsville) already has
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branches for most departments, including its own Supreme Court. "
Ludwig Letchart, a friend of the Archer brothers, named the main tributaries of the Fitzroy
Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Isaac, when they traveled to Port Essington in 18
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heeded their advice to seek the confluence of these tributaries. Although most of the thousands who arrived on Fitzroy's muddy, crocodile-infested coast expected to collect gold nuggets or be killed by the governments of Sydney and Melbourne, hundreds remain in Australia's largest northern city. With the
advantage of hindsight, the millions spent on dredging the Fitzroy River to keep the river port
viable, might have been saved had Rockhampton agreed to support the use of Gladstone’s
magnificent natural harbour. The provision of services.
