Ideraway

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Ideraway

| state = qld

| image = Citrus growing, Burnett Highway, Ideraway, 2014 01.jpg

| caption = Citrus orchard, 2014

| coordinates = {{coord|-25.5788|151.6183|type:city_region:AU-QLD|display=inline,title|name=Ideraway (town centre)}}

| image2 = {{Infobox mapframe|coord={{coord|-25.5788|151.6183}}}}

| pop = 31

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}

| pop_footnotes =

| established =

| postcode = 4625

| area = 35.5

| timezone = AEST

| utc = +10:00

| dist1 = 5.5

| dir1 = NNE

| location1 = Gayndah

| dist2 = 153

| dir2 = W

| location2 = Maryborough

| dist3 = 152

| dir3 = SW

| location3 = Bundaberg

| dist4 = 331

| dir4 = NNW

| location4 = Brisbane

| elevation =

| maxtemp =

| mintemp =

| rainfall =

| lga = North Burnett Region

| stategov = Callide

| fedgov = Flynn

| near-n = Yenda

| near-ne = Mount Lawless

| near-e = Bon Accord

| near-se = Bon Accord

| near-s = Gayndah

| near-sw = Dirnbir

| near-w = Reids Creek

| near-nw = Reids Creek

}}

Ideraway is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.{{cite QPN|16595|Ideraway|town in North Burnett Region|access-date=28 December 2020}}{{cite QPN|45374|Ideraway|locality in North Burnett Region|access-date=28 December 2020}} In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 31 people.

Geography

File:Citrus growing, Burnett Highway, Ideraway, 2014 02.jpg

The Burnett River forms the south-eastern boundary, while Reid Creek forms the western boundary. The Burnett Highway passes through the south-western corner.{{Queensland Globe|access-date=19 February 2021}}

The town is located in the south-east of the locality and most of the housing is within the town. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation in the south of the locality with crop growing more in the north of the locality.

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History

The town's name was derived from the name of a pastoral run, leased from 1848 by James Blair (or Blain) Reid J.P.{{cite news |date=15 June 1847 |title=Government Gazette Appointments and Employment |page=650 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=52 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230676215 |accessdate=17 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |date=22 June 1847 |title=PUBLIC EDUCATION. |page=670 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=54 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230676290 |accessdate=17 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}} Reid acquired the leases of the six stations of sheep country which comprised Ideraway over a period of ten years.{{cite news |date=26 July 1851 |title=OROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS. |page=1190 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=84 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230770387 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230770387 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=26 July 1851 |title=OROWN LANDS BEYOND THE SETTLED DISTRICTS. |page=1191 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=84 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230770387 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230770387 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=1 October 1852 |title=Government Gazette Tenders and Contracts |page=1448 |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=95 |location=New South Wales, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230052616 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118030030/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230052616 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=5 May 1858 |title=ACCEPTED TENDERS FOR RUNS. |volume=XII |page=2 |newspaper=The Moreton Bay Courier |issue=647 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3725594 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3725594 |url-status=live }} The stations were called Tanjour, Binjour, Branch Creek No. 1, Jonday, Penang, and Nour-Nour.{{cite news |date=26 March 1864 |title=Classified Advertising |volume=XVIII |page=5 |newspaper=The Courier (Brisbane) |issue=1898 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3169313 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118025952/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3169313 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Queensland State Archives |date=26 September 1878 |title=Tracing shewing proposed resumptions from the Ideraway, Yenda, Penang, Nour Nour, Land of Promise, Branch Ck. No. 1, Prazier, Upper Chin Chin, Lower Chin Chin |url=https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM3575811 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Queensland Government |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022081929/https://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM3575811 |url-status=live }} In 1869 the leases on Penang and Nour-Nour, at the northern end of the run, were excised from Ideraway and sold as the cattle property of Mungy.{{cite news |date=11 January 1869 |title=Classified Advertising |volume=XXIII |page=4 |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |issue=3,517 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1322016 |accessdate=21 October 2022 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In the 1850s and 1860s the run was the scene of several incidents of colonial frontier conflict.{{Cite web|title=Search results for 'ideraway'|url=https://database.frontierconflict.org/search/results.aspx?ST=ideraway|url-access=registration|access-date=2021-10-16|website=database.frontierconflict.org|archive-date=25 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190246/https://database.frontierconflict.org/search/results.aspx?st=ideraway|url-status=live}} Several children from Ideraway Station with Chinese laborer fathers and First Nation mothers were baptised into the Anglican faith in the early 1870s.{{Cite web |date=15 February 2021 |title=Diocesan Records Archives – Gayndah Baptisms 1860–1877, 1891–1894 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0b6225d1f5490001c5c757/t/6029cf26642c4f320c65e644/1613352748326/Gayndah+Baptisms+15Feb2021.pdf |access-date=1 August 2022 |publisher=Anglican Church Southern Queensland |via=Squarespace |archive-date=23 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423072300/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0b6225d1f5490001c5c757/t/6029cf26642c4f320c65e644/1613352748326/Gayndah+Baptisms+15Feb2021.pdf |url-status=live }}{{full citation needed|date=August 2022|reason=This is a document of 27 pages with hundeds of entries. Which ones support the previous statement?}} The Ideraway Homestead has been relocated to Gayndah Museum's historical precinct.{{Cite web|url=https://poi-australia.com.au/points-of-interest/australia/queensland-1/gayndah/ideraway-homestead-c-1870-79-capper-st-gayndah-qld/#post_content|title=Ideraway Homestead c 1870–79 Capper St, Gayndah, QLD|website=POI Australia|access-date=21 June 2022|archive-date=22 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322065944/https://poi-australia.com.au/points-of-interest/australia/queensland-1/gayndah/ideraway-homestead-c-1870-79-capper-st-gayndah-qld/#post_content|url-status=live}}

On 18 December 1905 the Queensland Government legislated An Act to Make Provision for the Purchase of the Ideraway Estate, in the Burnett District, for Settlement under "The Agricultural. Lands Purchase Acts, 1894 to 1901." The land was purchased from Mr James John Cadell. Concurrently, An Act to Provide a Means of Assisting certain Persons to Settle upon the Agricultural Lands of the State was passed.{{Citation|title=Ideraway Estate Special Purchase Act of 1905 (5 Edw VII, No 21)|url=http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/qld/hist_act/iespao19055evn21416/|access-date=2021-10-16|archive-date=16 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016144307/http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/qld/hist_act/iespao19055evn21416/|url-status=live}} This scheme was different to the earlier failed communal/utopian schemes at nearby Byrnestown, Resolute, and Bon Accord in that land was selected by individuals. The Ideraway Estate scheme was eventually liquidated by the Queensland Agricultural Bank at much loss.{{cite news|date=2 September 1931|title=Sall Plots|page=13|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier|issue=22,962|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21767865|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=15 October 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094837/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21767865|url-status=live}}

From that time onwards the area became densely infected with the prickly pear . Prior to the release of the cactoblastis cactorum moth in Queensland, arsenic pentoxide was the most effective poison of the plant.{{Cite journal|last=Davies|first=Hilary J|year=2015|title=Chinchilla Field Station Insect-rearing Shed: the last relic of a major scientific project|journal=Queensland History Journal|volume=22|issue=10|pages=719|issn=1836-5477|url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.379036031750035|access-date=9 February 2023|archive-date=9 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209033052/https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.379036031750035|url-status=live}} P. H. Gerhardt of Ideraway, a prolific inventor, invented the Gerhardt Injector, for injection of the poison.{{cite news|date=20 January 1925|title=Prickly Pear|page=3|newspaper=The Dalby Herald|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215501281|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=11 November 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215501281|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=25 August 1926|title=Advertising|page=20|newspaper=The Daily Mail|issue=7640|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218348149|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=11 November 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094837/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/218348149|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=4 October 1923|title=Commonwealth Patents|page=19|newspaper=Daily Commercial News And Shipping List|issue=10,998|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159927872|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=12 November 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159927872|url-status=live}} The moth was liberated into the field in 1926, and between then and 1939 butter production in the Gayndah district increased five-fold. Cream from Ideraway was sent to the Maryborough butter factory, and then to the Gayndah butter factory when it opened in 1911, and the district was well-known for its butter production in the 1930s.{{cite news|date=18 May 1911|title=Ideraway|page=6|newspaper=Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser|issue=11,877|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151530798|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=12 November 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094841/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/151530798|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=3 January 1931|title=News and Notes of General Interest for the Man on the Land|page=10|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier|issue=22,756|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21656688|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=15 October 2021|archive-date=21 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621094840/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21656688|url-status=live}}

The Mungar Junction to Monto railway line opened between Wetheron and Gayndah on 16 December 1907 with the town being served by the Ideraway railway station ({{coord|-25.5770|151.6181|type:railwaystation_region:AU-QLD|name=Ideraway railway station (former)}}).{{Cite web|date=2 October 2020|title=Railway stations and sidings – Queensland|url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/transport-features-queensland-series/resource/84fff9a0-e315-4844-9c4d-63934562a9bd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005070354/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/transport-features-queensland-series/resource/84fff9a0-e315-4844-9c4d-63934562a9bd|archive-date=5 October 2020|access-date=5 October 2020|website=Queensland Open Data|publisher=Queensland Government}} Increasing competition from road freight resulted in railway services on the line being reduced over the years. In 2015, the Queensland Government decided it no longer wanted to maintain the railway and in 2017 the tracks were removed and the stations abandoned.{{Cite web|last=Shipton|first=David|date=2018-10-27|title=How bridges helped build regional Queensland|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/historic-queensland-bridges-that-connected-regional-communities/10390486|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-19|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109023732/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/historic-queensland-bridges-that-connected-regional-communities/10390486}}

Ideraway State School opened in 1909 and closed circa 1952.{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|publication-date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=Queensland Family History Society|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}} It was on the south-east corner of Tanjour Street and Bonny Street ({{Coord|-25.5792|151.6203|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Ideraway State School (former)}}).{{Cite web|date=1944|title=Gayndah|url=https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/topo_scans/topo-map-1mile-military-line-colour-gayndah-emergency-ed-1944.jpg|url-status=live|access-date=19 February 2021|publisher=Queensland Government|type=Map|archive-date=19 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219064828/https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/topo_scans/topo-map-1mile-military-line-colour-gayndah-emergency-ed-1944.jpg}}

Ideraway Post Office opened by December 1909 (a receiving office had been open from 1908) and closed in 1957.{{Cite web | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | publisher = Premier Postal Auctions | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=QLD&country= | access-date = 10 May 2014 | archive-date = 15 May 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140515223132/http://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=QLD&country= | url-status = live}}

Demographics

In the {{CensusAU|2011}}, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 225 people.{{Census 2011 AUS|id=SSC30786|name=Ideraway|access-date=12 July 2013|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 38 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC31396|name=Ideraway (SSC)|access-date=20 October 2018|quick=on}}

In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, the locality of Ideraway had a population of 31 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL31381|name=Ideraway (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}

Heritage listings

File:Ideraway Creek Railway Bridge (Ideraway), from N bank.jpg

Ideraway Creek has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

  • Mungar-Monto railway line ({{coord|-25.5828|151.616|region:AU-QLD_type:landmark|name=Ideraway Creek Railway Bridge}}): Ideraway Creek Railway Bridge{{cite QHR|15294|Ideraway Creek Railway Bridge (Ideraway)|600519|access-date=12 July 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.northburnett.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Local-Heritage-Register2.pdf|title=North Burnett Local Heritage Register|publisher=North Burnett Regional Council|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816031644/https://www.northburnett.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Local-Heritage-Register2.pdf|archive-date=16 August 2019|url-status=live|access-date=16 August 2019}} (Ideraway Upside Down Bridge)
  • Mungar-Monto railway line ({{coord|-25.5932|151.6118|region:AU-QLD_type:landmark|name=Steep Rocky Creek Railway Bridge}}): Steep Rocky Creek Railway Bridge{{cite QHR|15295|Steep Rocky Creek Railway Bridge (Ideraway)|600520|access-date=12 July 2013}}

These bridges were also listed by Engineers Australia in October 2016. The Official Register of Engineering Heritage Markers listed

  • Degilbo-Mundubbera Railway Bridges. A total of 12 bridges that are situated on the Mungar Junction to Monto railway line, including these two bridges, are recognized with one Engineering Heritage Marker representing the "best example of a collection of historic railway bridges in Australia".{{Cite web |last=McLachlan |first=Mark |date=2018-06-06 |title=Degilbo to Mundubbera Railway Bridges, 1905 to 1914 |url=https://www.boyneburnettinlandrailtrail.org.au/blog/degilbo-to-mundubbera-railway-bridges-1905-to-1914/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Boyne Burnett Inland Rail Trail Blog |language=en-AU |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143304/https://www.boyneburnettinlandrailtrail.org.au/blog/degilbo-to-mundubbera-railway-bridges-1905-to-1914/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=McGrath, PSM |first=B. L. |last2=Churchward |first2=Alan |date=October 2015 |title=Nomination of the Gayndah Rail Bridges, Queensland for ENGINEERING HERITAGE RECOGNITION under Engineering Heritage Australia’s Engineering Heritage Recognition Program |url=https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/system/files/engineering-heritage-australia/nomination-title/HRP.Degilbo-Mundubbera%20Railway%20Bridges.Nomination.V10.Changes%20by%20AC.October%202016.pdf |access-date=26 September 2022 |website=Engineers Australia |archive-date=25 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925171553/https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/system/files/engineering-heritage-australia/nomination-title/HRP.Degilbo-Mundubbera%20Railway%20Bridges.Nomination.V10.Changes%20by%20AC.October%202016.pdf |url-status=live }}

Economy

There are a number of homesteads in the locality:{{Cite web|date=18 November 2020|title=Homesteads – Queensland|url=https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/b27874c1-ccb9-463d-a26f-706abcc0ab79|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124212526/https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/built-features-queensland-series/resource/b27874c1-ccb9-463d-a26f-706abcc0ab79|archive-date=24 November 2020|access-date=24 November 2020|website=Queensland Open Data|publisher=Queensland Government}}

  • Banapan ({{coord|-25.5772|151.6083|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Banapan (homestead)}})
  • Burnett View ({{coord|-25.5809|151.6523|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Burnett View (homestead)}})
  • Dentara ({{coord|-25.5477|151.6174|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Dentara (homestead)}})
  • Ideraway ({{coord|-25.5834|151.6329|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Ideraway (homestead)}})
  • Yenda ({{coord|-25.5621|151.6212|type:landmark_region:AU-QLD|name=Yenda (homestead)}})

Education

There are no schools in Ideraway. The nearest primary school is Gayndah State School in neighbouring Gayndah to the south. The nearest secondary school is Burnett State College also in Gayndah.

References

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