The Queensland's Q150 Icons list of cultural icons was compiled as part of Q150 celebrations in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia. It represented the people, places and events that were significant to Queensland's first 150 years.
The Queensland's Q150 Icons list of cultural icons was compiled as part of Q150 celebrations in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia. It represented the people, places and events that were significant to Queensland's first 150 years.
A list of 300 nominations for Queensland cultural icons was compiled by the Queensland Government, organised into 10 categories, and then the Queensland public were invited to vote to produce a final list of 150 icons. The final list was announced on 10 June 2009 by the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, as part of the Q150 celebration of Queensland's foundation. [1]
This list is for people and organisations that are significant to Queensland.
| 1 | Yungaba Immigration Centre |
| 2 | Steve Irwin |
| 3 | Surf Lifesavers |
| 4 | Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
| 5 | Leslie Thiess [2] |
| 6 | Founders of Qantas |
| 7 | Clem Jones |
| 8 | Eddie Mabo |
| 9 | State Emergency Service |
| 10 | John Flynn |
| 11 | Charles Kingsford Smith |
| 12 | James Cook |
| 13 | Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland |
| 14 | Isolated Children's Parents Association [3] |
| 15 | Wayne Bennett |
| 1 | Bee Gees |
| 2 | Powderfinger |
| 3 | Geoffrey Rush |
| 4 | Keith Urban |
| 5 | Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) |
| 6 | Steele Rudd |
| 7 | Judith Wright |
| 8 | Billy Thorpe |
| 9 | Hugh Lunn |
| 10 | Savage Garden |
| 11 | Gladys Moncrieff |
| 12 | Graeme Connors |
| 13 | William McInnes |
| 14 | David Malouf |
| 15 | Charles Chauvel |
| 1 | Wally Lewis |
| 2 | Cathy Freeman |
| 3 | Pat Rafter |
| 4 | Rod Laver |
| 5 | Allan Border |
| 6 | Greg Norman |
| 7 | Susie O'Neill |
| 8 | Dick Johnson |
| 9 | Allan Langer |
| 10 | Gunsynd |
| 11 | Mal Meninga |
| 12 | Grant Hackett |
| 13 | Matthew Hayden |
| 14 | Kieren Perkins |
| 15 | Mick Doohan |
| 1 | Australia Zoo (Sunshine Coast Hinterland) |
| 2 | Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame (Longreach) |
| 3 | Surfers Paradise |
| 4 | Bundaberg Rum Distillery |
| 5 | Big Pineapple (Nambour) |
| 6 | South Bank Parklands (Brisbane) |
| 7 | Noosa |
| 8 | Breakfast Creek Hotel (Brisbane) |
| 9 | Yatala Pie Shop |
| 10 | Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge |
| 11 | Paronella Park (North Queensland) |
| 12 | Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (Brisbane) |
| 13 | Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (Gold Coast) |
| 14 | Great Dividing Range |
| 15 | Darling Downs |
| 1 | Story Bridge (Brisbane) |
| 2 | Kuranda Scenic Railway (Cairns) |
| 3 | XXXX Brewery (Brisbane) |
| 4 | Brisbane City Hall |
| 5 | Skyrail Rainforest Cableway (Cairns) |
| 6 | Gateway Bridge (Brisbane) |
| 7 | Lang Park (Brisbane) |
| 8 | Q1 (Gold Coast) |
| 9 | The Gabba (Brisbane) |
| 10 | The University of Queensland Great Court |
| 11 | St John's Cathedral (Brisbane) |
| 12 | Old Museum (Brisbane) |
| 13 | Qantas Hangars (Longreach and Cloncurry) |
| 14 | Hornibrook Bridge (Redcliffe) |
| 15 | Burdekin Falls Dam |
| 1 | World Expo '88 (1988) |
| 2 | 1974 Queensland floods |
| 3 | Qantas takes to the air (1920) |
| 4 | 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games |
| 5 | Mabo High Court of Australia decision (1992) |
| 6 | Fitzgerald Inquiry (1987–89) |
| 7 | Queensland proclaimed as a new colony (1859) |
| 8 | Gold discovered in Queensland (1858) |
| 9 | World Heritage listing of the Wet Tropics (1988) |
| 10 | Queensland wins its first Sheffield Shield (1995) |
| 11 | Bellevue Hotel and Cloudland demolished (1979 and 1982) |
| 12 | Queensland the first with free education |
| 13 | Australia's first Aboriginal Parliamentarians: Neville Bonner (1971) |
| 14 | All chained up for women's rights (1965 at Regatta Hotel) |
| 15 | Railway comes to Queensland (1865) |
| 1 | Royal Flying Doctor Service |
| 2 | Cervical cancer vaccination (Professor Ian Frazer) |
| 3 | Polio treatment |
| 4 | Blue Care (formerly Blue Nurses) |
| 5 | School of the Air |
| 6 | Billabong |
| 7 | Lamington |
| 8 | Kids Alive - Do the Five [4] |
| 9 | Lucas' Pawpaw Ointment [5] |
| 10 | Weis Fruit Bar |
| 11 | Immune system research wins Nobel Prize |
| 12 | Southern Cross windmills [6] |
| 13 | Tilt train |
| 14 | Dingo fence |
| 15 | wotif.com.au |
| 1 | Ekka (Brisbane) |
| 2 | State of Origin series |
| 3 | Birdsville Races |
| 4 | RiverFire (Riverfestival) |
| 5 | Woodford Folk Festival |
| 6 | Carnival of Flowers (Toowoomba) |
| 7 | Country Music Muster (Gympie) |
| 8 | Indy (Gold Coast) |
| 9 | Apple and Grape Harvest Festival (Stanthorpe) |
| 10 | B&S Balls |
| 11 | Beef Australia (Rockhampton) |
| 12 | Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race |
| 13 | Mount Isa Rodeo |
| 14 | Paniyiri Greek Festival (Brisbane) |
| 15 | Noosa Triathlon |
| 1 | Backyard BBQs |
| 2 | Queenslander house |
| 3 | XXXX beer |
| 4 | Bundy Rum (and bear) |
| 5 | Sunshine |
| 6 | Bowen mango |
| 7 | Summer afternoon storms |
| 8 | "Waltzing Matilda" |
| 9 | Macadamia nut |
| 10 | Maroon |
| 11 | Jacaranda tree |
| 12 | Cane fields |
| 13 | Cane toad |
| 14 | Thongs |
| 15 | Mud crab |
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Castlemaine Perkins is a brewery at 185 Milton Road, Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a wholly owned entity of the Japanese-controlled Lion company. Operations began in 1878 and continue today. Castlemaine Perkins is the home of the XXXX beer brand.
The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame is a museum located in Longreach, Queensland, Australia, which pays tribute to pioneers of the Australian outback. The centre is also dedicated to Australian stockmen who have shown bravery and courage.
Anna Maria Bligh is a lobbyist and former Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of Queensland, in office from 2007 to 2012 as leader of the Labor Party. She was the first woman to hold either position. In 2017, she was appointed CEO of the Australian Banking Association.
The Tilt Train is the name for two similar high-speed tilting train services, one electric and the other diesel, operated by Queensland Rail. They run on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Bundaberg and Rockhampton (electric) and Cairns (diesel).
The Old Museum Building is a heritage-listed former exhibition building, former museum and now performance venue in Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is made from 1.3 million red bricks and bordered by Gregory Terrace and the Exhibition Grounds.
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The Bunya Mountains are a distinctive set of peaks forming an isolated section of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland. The mountain range forms the northern edge of the Darling Downs in the locality also called Bunya Mountains near Bell and Dalby. The mountains are south of Kingaroy and just to the south west of Nanango. The range is the remains of a shield volcano which was built from numerous basalt lava flows about 23-24 million years ago.
Barron Falls is a steep tiered cascade waterfall on the Barron River located where the river descends from the Atherton Tablelands to the Cairns coastal plain, in Queensland, Australia.
The Burdekin Dam, officially the Burdekin Falls Dam, is a concrete gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Burdekin River, located south west of Ayr, and Home Hill in North Queensland, Australia. Built for the purpose of irrigation, the reservoir, called Lake Dalrymple. Burdekin Dam is managed by SunWater. Water from the reservoir is also used to replenish downstream aquifers.
The Tree of Knowledge was a heritage-listed tree in Oak Street, Barcaldine, Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia, that was poisoned and killed in 2006. It was a 200-year-old Corymbia aparrerinja ghost gum. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
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Q150 was the sesquicentenary of the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Separation established the Colony of Queensland which became the State of Queensland in 1901 as part of the Federation of Australia. Q150 was celebrated in 2009.
The Bellevue Hotel was a hotel on the western corner of George and Alice Streets, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Once Brisbane's premier hotel, it was demolished in 1979 despite considerable public objection. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the demolition of the Bellevue Hotel was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "Defining Moment".
The Apple & Grape Harvest Festival is a biennial festival held in Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, taking place over 10 days at the beginning of March. It is one of Queensland's longest-running festivals, first held in 1966 as a celebration of the Granite Belt region’s wine and produce industry.
The Yatala Pie Shop is an iconic pie shop in Yatala, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, the Yatala Pie Shop was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for its role as a "location".
Blue Care is an agency of UnitingCare Queensland, the health and community arm of the Uniting Church in Queensland, Australia. Originally established as the Blue Nursing Service by the Methodist Church in 1953, it has grown into one of the largest not-for-profit providers of residential aged care, community care and retirement living in Queensland and northern New South Wales. In 2009 on Queensland Day it was announced that Blue Care was the recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards.
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