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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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The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Brisbane. The Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. The Broncos have won six premierships during their twenty years in competition, making them the league's most successful club.

The club was founded in 1988 as part of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership's national expansion, becoming, along with the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, one of Queensland's first two participants in the Winfield Cup. The Broncos later played a significant role in the Super League war of the mid-1990s before continuing to compete successfully in the reunified National Rugby League competition of today.

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

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Bank of Queensland at Maleny

Bank of Queensland (BOQ), one of the oldest financial institutions in Queensland, Australia, is a retail bank with a network of almost 270 branches, including 152 in Queensland, 52 in New South Wales, 23 in Victoria and 34 in Western Australia. Following the Home Building Society and Pioneer mergers, it now has more than 650,000 customers. In 2007, customer satisfaction with the bank was placed at 88%.

In 1874, the Brisbane Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society was established as the first permanent building society formed in Queensland. The Society incorporated in 1887. The company amalgamated with City and Suburban Building Society in 1921. The company amalgamated with Queensland Deposit Bank a decade later. The company received a licence to operate as a trading bank in 1942. 1971 saw the bank become a publicly traded company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 2011, the bank experienced a profit slump due to lending losses from the 2010–2011 Queensland floods. (Full article...)

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... that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?
... 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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...that the largest island on the Great Barrier Reef is Hinchinbrook Island? (pictured)
...that the highest ever peak demand for electricity in Queensland was 8,891 MW and occurred on 18 January 2010?
...that Lockyer Creek and its tributaries cover nearly one quarter of the Brisbane River catchment?
...that the 2004 Palm Island death in custody of Mulrunji led to the first trial of an Australian police officer for a death in custody?