37-543: The Beaudesert Times is a newspaper published in Beaudesert , Queensland , Australia . The newspaper was a result of the merger of two existing newspapers, The Beaudesert Despatch and Logan and Albert Leader and The Beaudesert Herald with politician Patrick James Leahy holding the controlling interest. John Adamson Walker and F. Parker had formerly run the Herald and they became manager and editor respectively of
74-551: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen: Cfa), with hot, wet summers and mild, dry winters. Yugembah (also known as Yugumbir, Jugambel, Jugambeir, Jugumbir, Jukam, Jukamba) is one of the Australian Aboriginal languages in areas that include the Beaudesert, Gold Coast, Logan, Scenic Rim , Albert River , Beenleigh , Coolangatta , Coomera , Logan River , Pimpama , Tamborine and Tweed River Valley, within
111-582: A Baptist church was opened in Beaudesert on land purchased for that purpose in 1889. The foundation stone was laid in April 1897 and the church was officially opened on Wednesday 16 June 1897. On 14 April 1901, the foundation stone was laid for St Mary's Convent School. The school opened on 19 August 1901 with an initial enrolment of 101 students and was operated by the Sisters of Mercy . The original timber building remained in use until 1939 when its condition
148-565: A public library at 58 Brisbane Street ( 27°59′24″S 152°59′45″E / 27.9899°S 152.9958°E / -27.9899; 152.9958 ( Beaudesert Library ) ). The Beaudesert branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at 86 Brisbane Street ( 27°59′12″S 152°59′44″E / 27.9867°S 152.9955°E / -27.9867; 152.9955 ( Beaudesert Country Women's Association ) ). St Thomas' Anglican Church
185-410: Is around 30 °C (86 °F) in summer and falls to around 3 °C (37 °F) in winter. Generally the weather is mild, but some severe storms can arrive each summer. In the east of the locality is the decommissioned Nindooinbah Dam . The much larger Wyaralong Dam is situated roughly 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) to the north west of the town and was completed in 2011. Beaudesert experiences
222-438: Is at 45 Anna Street ( 27°59′11″S 152°59′56″E / 27.9864°S 152.9990°E / -27.9864; 152.9990 ( Beaudesert Seventh-day Adventist Church ) ). The Arts Centre hosts a number of community groups and there is a wide range of community activity including a very active Bush Bards group. William Henry Suttor William Henry Suttor (Senior) (12 December 1805 – 20 October 1877)
259-467: Is at 7 Albert Street ( 27°59′29″S 152°59′56″E / 27.9913°S 152.9989°E / -27.9913; 152.9989 ( St Thomas's Anglican Church ) ). St Mary's Catholic Church is in Bromelton Street ( 27°59′19″S 152°59′29″E / 27.9887°S 152.9915°E / -27.9887; 152.9915 ( St Mary's Catholic Church ) ) adjacent to
296-425: The 2021 census , the locality of Beaudesert had a population of 6,752 people. Beaudesert has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Beaudesert State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at 17 Tina Street ( 27°59′20″S 153°00′08″E / 27.9888°S 153.0023°E / -27.9888; 153.0023 ( Beaudesert State School ) ). In 2018,
333-697: The Counties of Roxburgh, Phillip and Wellington in the New South Wales Legislative Council . Later, Suttor represented the County of Bathurst in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1856–59, East Macquarie in 1859 and 1860–64 and Bathurst in 1866–72. Suttor married Charlotte Francis in 1833, and together they had 14 children: William Henry Suttor (Junior) (1834–1905) who was also
370-602: The Logan River and Albert River valleys, Beaudesert is a regional hub serving surrounding communities such as Rathdowney , Kooralbyn , Canungra , Tamborine Mountain and Jimboomba . It is approximately 91 kilometres from Brisbane and connected by the Mount Lindesay Highway. The town of Beaudesert is located 46 metres (151 ft) above sea level and has an average annual rainfall of around 916 millimetres (36.1 in) per year. The temperature
407-491: The Nindooinbah Homestead was built. The town was originally set out in a grid pattern; however, several of the streets followed cart tracks. The area was originally settled for growing cotton and sheep. However, the area is also notoriously short of water and the cotton was not a successful crop. Hoop pine was very successfully collected from the area. In 1863 the cotton workers were indentured labourers from
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#1732798450026444-789: The Scenic Rim Region of Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , the locality of Beaudesert had a population of 6,752 people. Beaudesert is the administrative centre for the Scenic Rim Region. Beaudesert is south of Brisbane and west of the Gold Coast . Beaudesert is located on the Mount Lindesay Highway , some 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Brisbane . The area sources its income predominantly from rural activities such as cropping, grazing and equine activities, as well as tourism. In
481-400: The 1980s, it was a thriving centre with a shoe factory and meat works as well as markets, a hospital and an ambulance service. The Enright family managed a major department store. The Blunck family managed an electrical store and a car servicing and sales business. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was officially opened on Sunday 20 August 1949 by Pastor F. A. Mote, of Sydney, the secretary of
518-904: The Australasian Inter-Union Conference, and foundation stone for the Beaudesert Baptist Church was laid on 8 October 1949 by C.G. Sweetman, President of the Baptist Union in Queensland. From 1954 to 1962, the Beaudesert State School also provided a secondary school program, which ceased when a separate Beaudesert State High School was opened in January 1963. From 1961 until 2001, the controversial child-welfare organisation BoysTown operated in Beaudesert. It had
555-793: The Beaudesert Township Extension estate. The lots were mostly 2 roods (0.50 acres; 2,000 m ) and were on Brisbane Street, Tubber Street, Gordon Street, Birman Street, James Street, Edward Street and Alice Street. The advertising noted that the Queensland Government had voted the funds to extend the railway line from Logan Village to Beaudesert. The Beaudesert railway line from Bethania to Beaudesert opened on 16 May 1888. Beaudesert railway station ( 27°59′07″S 152°59′42″E / 27.9853°S 152.9950°E / -27.9853; 152.9950 ( Beaudesert railway station ) ) served
592-726: The South Sea Islands , the first such use in Queensland. In the 1880s, the Cobb & Co stagecoaches ran between Beaudesert and Jimboomba . Located in the Beaudesert Historical Museum is the Milbanks Pioneer Cottage. This cottage was originally built in 1875 by Patrick Milbanks on his Kerry property, out of local hand-hewn timbers, slats and shingle roof. It has four-poster bed, large cedar sideboard and numerous articles that portray
629-402: The building was rebuilt, re-opening on 20 February 2015; it is now used for school administration. On 17 December 1901 auctioneers M. Selwyn Smith offered nine grazing and agricultural lots surrounding the town of the Beaudesert ranging in size from 137 to 607 acres (55 to 246 ha; 0.55 to 2.46 km ), totalling 2,235 acres (904 ha; 9.04 km ). The land was being sold following
666-609: The church hall. On 3 February 1889, Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert Dunne blessed the foundation stone for the first Catholic church in Beaudesert. The event raised £74 with a further £7 pledged. As 2 February was the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary , it was decided to call the church Our Lady of the Purification, but it was commonly known as St Mary's. Dunne returned on 2 June 1889 to open
703-542: The death of its owner Ernest White. The Beaudesert Shire Tramway to Christmas Creek , Lamington and Rathdowney , operated by the Beaudesert Shire , opened in 1903 and closed in 1944. A local newspaper, the Beaudesert Times was established in 1908. The Beaudesert War Museum was unveiled on 28 September 1921 by Queensland Governor Matthew Nathan . From the nineteenth century through to
740-626: The largest case of child abuse at a single institution in Australia's history. In 1999, the Biddaddaba History Group brought together the history of the area from the earliest settlement of white people up to 1990 in a comprehensive book available from libraries. Prior to construction, the site of McAuley College was blessed by Archbishop of Brisbane , Mark Coleridge . It opened on 25 January 2017 with 36 students in Year 7. It
777-475: The life of the early pioneers. It was donated to the museum by Patrick Milbanks's grandchildren and relocated to its present site in 1979. Upper Beaudesert Provisional School opened circa 1882 and closed circa 1885. Beaudesert Provisional School opened on 26 March 1882 but closed on 9 September 1886. On 13 September 1887, it reopened as Beaudesert State School. On 15 August 1885 at Stretton's Hotel at Beaudesert, auctioneer C.J. Warner offered 125 town lots in
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#1732798450026814-669: The local government boundaries of the City of Gold Coast , City of Logan , Scenic Rim Regional Council and the Tweed River Valley. Mununjali (also known as Mananjahli, Manaldjahli and Manandjali) is a dialect of the Yugambeh language . The Mununjali language area includes landscape within the local government boundaries of the Scenic Rim and Beaudesert Shire Councils. The town is possibly named after Beau Desert Park ,
851-693: The name Beaudesert. He was himself born in Newark-Upon-Trent in Nottinghamshire , the son of Thomas Fitzherbert Hawkins and wife Elizabeth of Bathurst fame, and it does not seem that he or his family had any personal connections to Beaudesert in England. Ned Hawkins moved on, not long after taking up Beaudesert station, to take up Boonara Station in the South Burnett. The town was settled in 1847, on Yugambeh lands, and in 1850
888-443: The new church. Internally the church was 50 by 28 feet (15.2 m × 8.5 m) with 14-foot (4.3 m) ceilings. It was built by James Madden of Ipswich , who design the church for free. It was fitted with an altar , altar rails and 20 pews . On Sunday 15 September 1907 the second St Mary's was opened, with the original church dismantled and re-assembled at Kerry where it was named St John's Catholic Church. In 1897
925-547: The new paper. After Parker left, Walker became the managing editor. The first issue was published on 10 October 1908; it cost threepence. In March 1967 it was renamed the Logan and Albert Times, but returned to being the Beaudesert Times in 1985. In 2012, the newspaper was purchased by Fairfax Regional Media . Beaudesert, Queensland Download coordinates as: Beaudesert is a rural town and locality in
962-463: The property of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey in Staffordshire, England. Yet it is certain that Queensland's Beaudesert was named in about 1841 or 1842 by 'Ned Hawkins', or Edward Brace Hawkins (1821–1849), who was claiming the area as a sheep station on behalf of his employer William Henry Suttor senior (1805–1877) at Bathurst . It is not known why Hawkins picked
999-438: The school had an enrolment of 1442 students with 109 teachers (105 full-time equivalent) and 64 non-teaching staff (43 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. McAuley College is a Catholic secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 30 Oakland Way ( 27°59′23″S 153°00′42″E / 27.9897°S 153.0118°E / -27.9897; 153.0118 ( McAuley College ) ). In 2018,
1036-428: The school had an enrolment of 352 students with 26 teachers (22 full-time equivalent) and 19 non-teaching staff (11 full-time equivalent). Beaudesert State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 271-297 Brisbane Street ( 27°58′15″S 152°59′49″E / 27.9707°S 152.9970°E / -27.9707; 152.9970 ( Beaudesert State High School ) ). In 2018,
1073-473: The school had an enrolment of 649 students with 49 teachers (43 full-time equivalent) and 29 non-teaching staff (20 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. St Mary's Catholic Primary School is a Catholic primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 1 Bromelton Street ( 27°59′26″S 152°59′29″E / 27.9905°S 152.9913°E / -27.9905; 152.9913 ( St Mary's Catholic Primary School ) ). In 2018,
1110-683: The school had an enrolment of 93 students with 13 teachers (12 full-time equivalent) and 8 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent). The Scenic Rim Regional Council has its headquarters at the Beaudesert Administrative Centre at 82 Brisbane Street (formerly the offices of the Beaudesert Shire Council, 27°59′14″S 152°59′43″E / 27.9872°S 152.9954°E / -27.9872; 152.9954 ( Beaudesert Administration Centre ) ). The Scenic Rim Regional Council operates
1147-572: The school. Beaudesert Congregation Uniting Church is at 48 William Street (corner of Duckett Street, 27°59′25″S 153°00′01″E / 27.9902°S 153.0003°E / -27.9902; 153.0003 ( Beaudesert Congregation Uniting Church ) ) adjacent to the former church building. Beaudesert Baptist Church is at 13 Eaglesfield Street ( 27°59′13″S 152°59′56″E / 27.9870°S 152.9988°E / -27.9870; 152.9988 ( Beaudesert Baptist Church ) ). Beaudesert Seventh-day Adventist Church
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1184-406: The town. Use of the passenger services declined with the increasing ownership of cars following World War II , leading to the termination of the passenger services in 1961. However the Beaudesert abattoir and the dairy farmers continued to use the freight services on the line until freight services terminated on 20 May 1996. On Tuesday 24 July 1888, the foundation log of St Thomas' Anglican church
1221-556: Was an Australian pastoralist and politician. Suttor was born in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales , the third son of George Suttor and his wife Sarah Maria, née Dobinson. The politician John Bligh Suttor was a brother. In 1822 his father appointed him overseer of his 130 hectares (320 acres) property 'Brucedale Station' on the Bathurst plains. This turned out to be a successful landholding leading to great prosperity, and
1258-435: Was becoming dangerous. The school operated temporarily from the church until a new brick building was erected. The brick building was blessed and opened by Archbishop James Duhig on 3 September 1939. The timber building remains on the site as Mercy Hall. Further buildings were added over the years. On 19 August 2013, the 1939 brick building was badly damaged by a fire. However, the exterior and stained glass windows survived and
1295-460: Was laid by Mrs De Burgh Persse of Tabragalba with an address given by Archdeacon Nathaniel Dawes . On 24 November 1956 the foundation stone for a new church was laid by the Governor of Queensland, John Lavarack, and blessed by Archbishop Reginald Halse .The second St Thomas' Anglican Church was consecrated on Sunday 4 July 1965 by Archbishop Philip Strong . The 1888 church was used as
1332-543: Was officially opened on 17 November 2017 by Scott Buchholz , Member for Wright with a blessing by Coleridge. In the 2016 census , the locality of Beaudesert had a population of 6,395 people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 7.2% of the population. 80.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.2% and England 2.7%. 89.7% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 23.4%, Anglican 21.3% and Catholic 21.2%. In
1369-629: Was significantly expanded over time. During a time of great conflict with the Indigenous Australians of the Wiradjuri nation, who resisted the taking of their lands, both William and George established good relations with the aborigines. They were known to have been close to the Wiradjuri's warrior leader Windradyne during the 1820s, and when Windradyne died he was buried at Brucedale. From 1843 to 1854 Suttor represented
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