The red hot outback. The lush green rainforests. The golden beaches and sunshine. The cool blue coast.
The living kaleidoscope of the Great Barrier Reef. And the colourful towns and people. Queensland is big, bold,
bright and beautiful. Australians know it as the Sunshine State. As the old saying goes, beautiful one
day , perfect the next. This is the holiday capital of Australia, attracting visitors from around the
country and around the world, all year round.
A Unique, Distinctly Australian
Holiday There’s no part of Queensland more colourful than the people. You’ll find the locals
friendly, helpful and more than accommodating. The Sunshine State contains so many amazing attractions that
Australia is famous for. It’s brimming with exciting cities, sunshine and pristine natural attractions.
Queensland has a character and relaxing nature unlike anywhere else in the world.
Think Big Queensland is big. Covering 1,727,000 square kilometres, it is Australia’s second
largest State after Western Australia. It represents more than a quarter of the country’s total area. And
it’s the fastest growing State in Australia, with a current population of over three million people. To put
Queensland in perspective, it’s more than seven times the size of the United Kingdom, more than four and half
time the size of Japan, around six and half times the size of New Zealand, more than five times the size of
Texas. Yet Queensland is relatively uncrowded.
Queensland is such a vast land that Flying Doctors are
called to take medical care to remote communities. A school of the air delivers education via two-way radio
to distant school children. And the world’s longest mail run - the Channel Country Run - is in air service
stretching form North-West Queensland into South Australia.
