Imagination: how people have imagined Queensland

As essayist and literary critic Nettie Palmer put it, in 1927, ‘Queensland is notoriously huge: most parts of it are still unknown, except to the people who live in them’. Even southern Queensland was a ‘world of contrasts’, from ‘the coastal country, a world in itself of shores and mountains’ to ‘the surprising Granite Belt with its chill vigour’ and the lands out west. The great diversity of landscapes, climates, settlements and economies that characterises Queensland means an extraordinary diversity in the ways the State has been imagined and depicted