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Sir George Ferguson Bowen, first Governor of Queensland.
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, first Governor of Queensland.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 189/1, Item 3]
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Queensland's former military barracks Queen Street Brisbane
Queensland's former military barracks Queen Street Brisbane became the Colony's first Parliament House when the Houses assembled for the first time on 22 May 1860.

[From CA Bernays Queensland Politics during Sixty Years c1925, after a sketch by EP Trewern]
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Aerial view of the Diamantina River.
Aerial view of the Diamantina River near the western border of Queensland, named after Diamantina Roma Bowen, whose husband was Queensland's first Governor.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 189/1 Item 6]
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Panorama of Brisbane
An 1862 panorama of Brisbane town, in the new colony of Queensland.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 177/1 Item 1, Photo ID 071-078 ]
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Front section of the new Queensland Parliament House
The front section of the new Queensland Parliament House was built in 1865 – and still serves its purpose today.

Location: John Oxley Library  [State Library of Queensland: negative 4005]
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Pacific Islanders working at the Pioneer Company's sugar plantation
Pacific Islanders working at the Pioneer Company's sugar plantation in Queensland's Burdekin district in north Queensland in the 1880s.

Location: John Oxley Library  [State Library of Queensland: negative 9930]
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Badu Islanders
Badu Islanders, whose western Torres Strait home was incorporated in Queensland in 1879, pose with members of the 1898 Cambridge University anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 177/1, Item 3, Photo ID 380 ]
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Meriam people
Meriam people assemble at the Mer (Murray Island) courthouse that also served as their community hall, for this November 1898 photograph taken by the Cambridge University anthropological expedition to the Torres Strait.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 177/1, Item 3]
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The Worker published this cartoon, entitled 'Enter the People'
Queensland's The Worker published this cartoon, entitled 'Enter the People', on 26 February 1920.

Location: State Library of Queensland  [Film/s 0297]
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The Worker celebrates the abolition of the Upper House
The Worker celebrates the abolition of the Upper House of the State Parliament with the cartoon 'Gone' on 3 November 1921.

Location: State Library of Queensland  [Film/s 0297]
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Demonstrators attempting to break through the front gates of Queensland's Parliament House
Demonstrators attempting to break through the front gates of Queensland's Parliament House during protests over the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Land Holding Bill in 1985.

Location: State Library of Queensland  [Film/s 0297]
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Deed poll image Deed poll image Deed poll image
Signed by the Governor, Lord Normanby, on 22 August 1872, this document exercises the authority delegated to the Governor by the Queen to grant the request of the Queensland Parliament for the annexation to Queensland of all islands within 60 miles of the coast.

Location: Queensland State Archives  [SRS 6045]
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