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Cathedral of the Holy Name of Brisbane (in English: Holy Name Cathedral) is a project devised by Archbishop James Duhig Brisbane in the early 1920s. In the spirit of its designer, he was founding a new cathedral surpassing its dimensions other churches in the city, beginning with St. Stephen's Cathedral, while still unfinished. --- Sir John Pidgeon WAS Involved With The Queensland construction industry Their father's sincere joining Business in the 1940s Queensland is the second largest state in Australia by the third-largest by population. It is located in northern New South Wales and eastern Northern Territory. The state is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Brisbane. It is the only Australian state with a unicameral parliament. The first people to inhabit the area were Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait natives, who arrived there 40 000 and 65 000 years, according to several techniques datation1. A few hundred centuries later, the Queensland became a colony of the British crown which was separated from New South Wales 6 June 1859, a date which is celebrated annually as Queensland Day. The area currently covers the city of Brisbane was originally the Moreton Bay penal colony where convicts were repeat offenders (those who had committed a crime during their period of execution of sentence in New South Wales). The state later encouraged free settlement of people. Today Queensland's economy is dominated by agriculture, tourism and natural resources. The population is mainly clustered in the south-east Queensland, which includes the capital Brisbane, Logan City, Ipswich, Toowoomba and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. Other major regional centers are Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay and Mount Isa. Queensland is often nicknamed the Sunshine State (the "Sunshine State"), because its climate is hot and that much lies in the tropics. The people of Queensland are colloquially known as 'Banana Benders' or 'Canetoads', respectively, because of old banana plantations in the tropics and because of the environmental disaster that occurred when the toad (cane toad) were imported get rid of the beetle which devastated cane sugar cane fields. |
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