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Queensland (locally /ˈkwiːnzlænd/ KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, 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, southwest and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to its 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, including tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and 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 5.3 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. 28.9% of the state's population were immigrants. (Full article...)

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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 1Brisbane, capital and most populous city of Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 2The Mossman River, flowing through the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 3Fighting between Burke and Wills's supply party and Aboriginal Australians at Bulla in 1861 (from Queensland)
Image 4Köppen climate types in Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 5Passenger train at Oxley railway station on the Ipswich/Rosewood line within the Queensland Rail City network (from Queensland)
Image 6Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland's third largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 7Kanaka workers in a sugar cane plantation, late 19th century (from Queensland)
Image 8Cricket game at The Gabba, a 42,000-seat round stadium in Brisbane (from Queensland)
Image 9Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, headquarters of the Supreme Court of Queensland and District Court of Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 10Returned World War II soldiers march in Queen Street, Brisbane, 1944 (from Queensland)
Image 11Captain James Cook claims the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain at Possession Island in 1770 (from Queensland)
Image 12Skyline of the Brisbane central business district. Brisbane is a global city and the state's largest economic hub. (from Queensland)
Image 13The Great Barrier Reef, which extends along most of Queensland's Coral Sea coastline (from Queensland)
Image 14Blackbirded South Sea Islanders on a Sugarcane plantation in Queensland. (from Queensland)
Image 15The Great Court at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland's oldest university (from Queensland)
Image 16Parliament House, seat of the Queensland Parliament (from Queensland)
Image 17The Ekka (the Royal Queensland Exhibition) is held each August at the Brisbane Showgrounds. (from Queensland)
Image 18The McPherson Range at Lamington National Park in South East Queensland (from Queensland)
Image 19Commonly designated regions of Queensland, with Central Queensland divided into Mackay and Fitzroy subregions (from Queensland)
Image 20Gold mine at Ravenswood in North Queensland. Mining is one of the state's major industries (from Queensland)
Image 21Cargo ships at the Port of Gladstone, Queensland's largest commodity seaport (from Queensland)
Image 22Aftermath 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 23The Gold Coast, Queensland's second-largest city and a major tourist destination (from Queensland)
Image 24Parade of troops in Brisbane, prior to departure for the Boer War in South Africa (from Queensland)
Image 25Lake McKensie, K'gari (Fraser Island) (from Queensland)
Image 26Hill Inlet at the Whitsunday Islands. (from Queensland)
Image 27Government House, seat of the Governor (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 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?
... that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?

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...that the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington (pictured), the then-Governor of Queensland?
...that despite not being released as a single, Brisbane band Powderfinger's "These Days" topped the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1999?
...that Graham Perrett, the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton, was accused of calling rival Gary Hardgrave a "racist" during the 2007 election campaign?
...that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?

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