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Longreach Shire Council |
| Category: | Organisation | |
| Sub Category: | Local Government |
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| State/Country: | Queensland, Australia |
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| URL: | http://www.longreach.qld.gov.au/web/index.asp?m1=42&pg=42 | |
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'Three Aboriginal tribes - Inin(g)ai, Malintji, and Kuungkari - occupied the area now known as the Longreach Shire before European settlement.
The first European settlers moved into the region after 1860, following the footsteps of explorers William Landsborough and Nat Buchanan who reported good grazing country in the region of the Thomson River while searching for the overdue Bourke and Wills expedition.'
(Longreach Shire Council, 'History and Heritage': http://www.longreach.qld.gov.au/web/index.asp?m1=6&pg=6 (at 18 October 2005)). |
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