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Woolgar, Queensland

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Woolgar Upper Provisional School opened on 19 June 1901 and Woolgar Lower Provisional School opened on 24 June 1901, to work together as part-time schools (meaning a single teacher was shared between them). They closed in October 1903 but reopened in April 1904. Woolgar Lower Provisional School
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persons stealing and other offences. Together with other police and a native trooper, he mustered the indigenous persons to remove them from the area. It was indicated there may have been up to 800 indigenous persons in the area, although only some thirty to forty were to be removed. Within
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fifteen minutes of Sub-inspector Nichols leaving to get other officers, Kaye was fatally speared by the persons. A retaliatory
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The Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation had previously purchased Middle Park Station, 'to provide opportunities for the
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closed on 11 October 1906 while Woolgar Upper Provisional School continued as a full-time school and closed circa 1912.
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rises in the north-east and flows through to the south-west. The stream known as
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On 14 September 1881, Sub-inspector Henry Pollock Kaye of the
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is believed to have occurred against the indigenous persons.
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of that area, the Woolgar people, who mostly live in
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Queensland
Woolgar is located in Queensland
Coordinates
19°59′33″S 143°26′26″E / 19.9926°S 143.4405°E / -19.9926; 143.4405 (Woolgar (centre of locality))
2021 census
Postcode(s)
Time zone
AEST
UTC+10:00
LGA(s)
Shire of Richmond
State electorate(s)
Traeger
Federal division(s)
Kennedy
Bellfield
Gilberton
Porcupine
Saxby
Dutton River
Burleigh
Richmond
Dutton River
locality
Shire of Richmond
Queensland
2021 census
Richmond–Croydon Road
Native Mounted Police
First Nations

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