Longreach, Kennedy Division, Queensland, Australia

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Longreach is a town and a locality in the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Longreach had a population of 2,970 people. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Regional Council, which was established in 2008 as a merger of the former Longreach, Ilfracombe, and Isisford shires.



Geography

Longreach is in Central West Queensland, approximately 700 km (430 mi) from the coast, west of Rockhampton. The town is on the Tropic of Capricorn in the south-east of the locality. The town is named after the "long reach" of the Thomson River on which it is situated.



Lochern National Park is in the south-western part of the locality (formerly in Vergemont).



The main industries of the area are cattle, sheep, and, more recently, tourism.



The Landsborough Highway enters the locality from the south-east (Ilfracombe), passes through the town and then exits to the north-west (Corfield). The Central Western railway line takes the same route, the town being served by the Longreach railway station. The Thomson Developmental Road commences at the town and passes through the south-east of the locality (briefly passing through the westernmost part of Ilfracombe) before exiting to the south (Stonehenge).



In Longreach, the streets are named after species of birds, with the streets running east?west named after water birds and those running north?south after land birds.[5] The main business street is called Eagle Street. Other streets honour Hudson Fysh, an Australian aviation pioneer, and Sir James Walker, a farmer and long-serving mayor of the former Longreach Shire Council.



History

Longreach lay on the traditional tribal lands of the Iningai people. Iningai (also known as Yiningay, Muttaburra, Tateburra, Yinangay, Yinangi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Iningai people. The Iningai language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Longreach Region, particularly the towns of Longreach, Barcaldine, Muttaburra and Aramac as well as the properties of Bowen Downs and catchments of Cornish Creek and Alice River.



Kuungkari (also known as Kungkari and Koonkerri) is a language of Western Queensland. The Kuungkari language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council.



The town was gazetted in 1887.



Longreach Post Office opened on 1 October 1891.



The Central Western railway line reached the town on 15 February 1892, causing the population to grow.



Longreach State School opened on 22 May 1893 with an enrolment of 102 students.



Our Ladies' College was established in 1900 as a primary school by the Presentation Sisters. St Joseph's Primary School was established in 1925. In 1935 Our Ladies' College expanded to offer secondary education to Year 10 (the first secondary school in Central Western Queensland).



Cominos Brothers opened a cafe in Eagle Street, the town?s main street in 1911. The cafe was known as Comino Bros. Central Caf? and American Bar, probably because it had an American-style soda fountain.



Longreach Rail Post Office opened by April 1940 and closed in 1962.



Longreach State High School opened on 24 January 1966.



Evesham State School opened in the former Morella on 23 January 1967. It was mothballed on 31 December 2009 and then permanently closed on 31 December 2010.



On 1 January 1986 Our Ladies' College relocated to the St Joseph's site. A pre-school was added in 1992. It returned to being only a primary school (P-6) at the end of 1994. In 2002, the school changed its name to Our Ladies' School.



Longreach School of Distance Education (also known as Longreach School of the Air) opened on 27 January 1987.



In early April 2010, Longreach experienced a significant locust plague described by local residents as the worst in three decades.



At the 2011 census, Longreach recorded a population of 3,137.



In January 2019, it was decided to reduce the number of localities within Longreach Region by amalgamating the localities to the north and west of the town of Longreach into the locality of Longreach. The localities amalgamated were: Camoola, Chorregon, Ernestina, Maneroo, Morella, Tocal, and Vergemont. As a consequence of this amalgamation, the Longreach Region has only three localities: Longreach, Ilfracombe and Isisford.

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1	Boyle, Cecil Lucas	1925	Longreach, Kennedy Division, Queensland, Australia	I16292

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1	Boyle, Cecil Lucas	1925	Longreach, Kennedy Division, Queensland, Australia	I16292