North Australia

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Contents 1 Territory 2 Colony 3 Future State 4 See also 5 External References 6 Notes

[edit] Territory

North Australia was a short-lived territory of Australia. On February 1, 1927, the Northern Territory was split into two territories, North Australia and Central Australia. On June 12, 1931, the two were reunited as Northern Territory. The Commonwealth legislation giving force to the separation was the North Australia Act 1926.

[edit] Colony

A colony of North Australia existed briefly from 17 February 1846 which included all land in the Northern Territory and the present state of Queensland lying north of 26ºS. The capital was at Port Curtis now called Gladstone under Colonel George Barney as Lieutenant-Governor and Superintendent. Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the Governor of New South Wales, was Governor.^[1][2] The Letters Patent establishing the colony were revoked in December the same year, after a change of government in Britain, although Barney and his party did not receive the news and return to Sydney until 1847. The colony was intended as a new penal colony after the end of transportation in the older Australian colonies.^[3]

[edit] Future State

North Australia has also been proposed as the name to be adopted by the Northern Territory if it becomes a state of Australia.

[edit] See also

• Gladstone
• Northern Territory
• History of Australia
• Central Australia
• States and territories of Australia
• Territorial evolution of Australia

[edit] External References

Gladstone... City that waited, Lorna McDonald, ISBN 095991241X

[edit] Notes