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Queensland (locally /ˈkwiːnzlænd/ KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of 1,723,030 square kilometres (665,270 sq mi), Queensland is the world's sixth-largest subnational entity; it is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its tropical and sub-tropical coastal regions, as well as deserts and savanna in the semi-arid and desert climatic regions of its interior.

Queensland has a population of over 5.5 million, concentrated along the east coast, particularly in South East Queensland. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city. Ten of Australia's thirty largest cities are located in Queensland, the largest outside Brisbane being the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Ipswich, and Toowoomba. 24.2% of the state's population were born overseas. The state has the highest inter-state net migration in Australia. (Full article...)

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Karmichael Hunt, Brisbane Broncos and Australian rugby league player.

Karmichael Hunt (born 17 November 1986 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a professional rugby league footballer for the Brisbane Broncos in the Australian National Rugby League competition. Hunt primarily plays in the fullback position, but he also played on the wing and at halfback. Hunt has played first-grade rugby league for Brisbane since 2004, and was part of the Broncos' competition-winning team in 2006.

Hunt made his NRL debut in 2004 and played every game that season, winning the Dally M Rookie of the Year award. In a controversial move, Hunt chose to play for Australia instead of his native New Zealand, citing a lifelong dream of playing for Queensland in State of Origin. He has represented the Queensland Maroons in the interstate State of Origin series and the Australian Kangaroos at international level.

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Image 1The Ekka (the Royal Queensland Exhibition) is held each August at the Brisbane Showgrounds. (from Queensland)
Image 2Captain James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain at Possession Island in 1770 (from Queensland)
Image 3Parliament House, seat of the Queensland Parliament (from Queensland)
Image 4Gold mine at Ravenswood in North Queensland. Mining is one of the state's major industries (from Queensland)
Image 5Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland's third largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 6Government House, seat of the Governor (from Queensland)
Image 7Lake McKensie, K'gari (Fraser Island) (from Queensland)
Image 8The Gold Coast, Queensland's second-largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 9Skyline of the Brisbane central business district. Brisbane is a global city and the state's largest economic hub. (from Queensland)
Image 10The Mossman River, flowing through the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 11The Great Barrier Reef, which extends along most of Queensland's Coral Sea coastline (from Queensland)
Image 12The McPherson Range at Lamington National Park in South East Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 13Köppen climate types in Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 14Hill Inlet at the Whitsunday Islands. (from Queensland)
Image 15Fighting between Burke and Wills's supply party and Aboriginal Australians at Bulla in 1861 (from Queensland)
Image 16Aftermath of the 1861 Cullin-La-Ringo massacre in which 19 settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, the deadliest attack on settlers in the frontier wars (from Queensland)
Image 17Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, headquarters of the Supreme Court of Queensland and District Court of Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 18Passenger train at Oxley railway station on the Ipswich/Rosewood line within the Queensland Rail City network (from Queensland)
Image 19Cricket game at The Gabba, a 42,000-seat round stadium in Brisbane (from Queensland)
Image 20Returned World War II soldiers march in Queen Street, Brisbane, 1944 (from Queensland)
Image 21Cargo ships at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland's largest commodity seaport (from Queensland)
Image 22The Great Court at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland's oldest university (from Queensland)
Image 23Parade of troops in Brisbane, prior to departure for the Boer War in South Africa (from Queensland)
Image 24Brisbane, capital and most populous city of Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 25Kanaka workers in a sugar cane plantation, late 19th century (from Queensland)
Image 26Commonly designated regions of Queensland, with Central Queensland divided into Mackay and Fitzroy subregions (from Queensland)
Image 27Blackbirded South Sea Islanders on a Sugarcane plantation in Queensland. (from Queensland)

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Opera Queensland is an opera company based in Brisbane, Queensland. The company was founded with funding from the Queensland State Government in 1981, then under the name Lyric Opera of Queensland, after the Queensland Opera Company was closed in December 1980.

It is after Opera Australia the second largest opera company in Australia. Each year the company presents at least three major operatic productions in Brisbane and numerous smaller productions, concerts and tours of operatic and lighter musical material in other venues throughout Queensland. As a partner in The Opera Conference, the national partnership of professional opera companies, Opera Queensland is actively involved in commissioning and presenting new productions. Opera Queensland is a "State flagship company" member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group. (Full article...)

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... that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?
... that in its two years of existence, the Hunter River Railway Company initiated construction on what would eventually become the Great Northern Railway connecting Sydney to Queensland?
... that Lachlan Murdoch was forced to resign as a director of Prime Media Group because the company owned a radio station on Queensland's Sunshine Coast?

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Wivenhoe Dam spilling with all five floodgates open in October 2010

...that the town of Killarney was hit by a destructive tornado on Saturday 23 November 1968, which destroyed many buildings?
...that the Windorah Solar Farm uses five concentrated solar dishes each containing 112 square mirrors which sit atop 13 m masts and can rotate 360°?
...that Wivenhoe Dam (pictured) is home to the vulnerable Queensland lungfish?
...that Stanthorpe holds the record for the lowest temperature recorded in Queensland at -10.6 °C on 23 June 1961?