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To the north, on Moreton Bay in Queensland, Brisbane was founded; to the south, on Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Melbourne.
The Age also quoted Queensland Premier Rob Borbidge as saying that "the whole sorry industry has gotten a bit out of hand."
Australian Prime Minister John Howard came under strong attack both at home and in Asia for his failure to curb the political momentum of the racist, anti-Asian One Nation Party, which won nearly a quarter of the votes in elections in Queensland this weekend.
He suggested that it was a transferred use of the Queensland Aboriginal word for a particularly noisy bird and that the connection was made by percipient Aborigines who applied it first to the German missionaries of 1838, having noted their garrulousness.
This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.