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	North Australia can refer to the territory, the colony or the proposed state. Territory North Australia was a short-lived territory States and territories of Australia The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government.... of Australia Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans.... . On February 1 1927, the Northern Territory Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions.... was split into two territories, North Australia and Central Australia Central Australia Central Australia/Alice Springs Region is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory. The term Central Australia is used to describe an area centred on Alice Springs, Northern Territory in 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. Colony A colony Colony In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies.... of North Australia existed briefly after it was authorised by letters patent Letters patent Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government, granting an office, right, government-granted monopoly, title, or status to a person or to some entity such as a corporation.... of 17 February 1846. The colony comprised all land in the Northern Territory and the present state of Queensland Queensland Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south.... lying north of 26ºS. The capital was at Port Curtis now called Gladstone Gladstone, Queensland Gladstone is an Australian city located some 550 kilometres by road north of Brisbane and 100 kilometres south-east of Rockhampton. The city is situated between the Calliope River to the north and the Boyne River some 14 kilometres to the south.... under Colonel Colonel Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures.... George Barney George Barney George Barney , was an engineer and lieutenant governor of the North Australia.... as Lieutenant-Governor and Superintendent. Charles Augustus FitzRoy, the Governor of New South Wales, was Governor. The Letters Patent Letters patent Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government, granting an office, right, government-granted monopoly, title, or status to a person or to some entity such as a corporation.... establishing the colony were revoked in December the same year, after a change of government in Britain, although Colonel Barney and his party did not receive the news until 1847, when the news arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1847. The colony was intended as a new penal colony Penal colony A penal colony is a Human settlement used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of the state's territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm.... after the end of transportation Penal transportation Transportation or penal transportation refers to the deportation of convicted criminals to a penal colony, for example by France to Devil's Island and by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and Australia between 1788 and 1868.... in the older Australian colonies. 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. See also Gladstone Gladstone, Queensland Gladstone is an Australian city located some 550 kilometres by road north of Brisbane and 100 kilometres south-east of Rockhampton. The city is situated between the Calliope River to the north and the Boyne River some 14 kilometres to the south.... Northern Territory Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal states and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions.... History of Australia History of Australia The written history of Australia began when Netherlands explorers first sighted the landmass in the 17th century. The interpretation of the history of Australia is currently a matter of History Wars, particularly regarding the British Empire settlement and early treatment of Indigenous Australians.... Central Australia Central Australia Central Australia/Alice Springs Region is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory. The term Central Australia is used to describe an area centred on Alice Springs, Northern Territory in Australia.... States and territories of Australia States and territories of Australia The Australia is made up of six states and two major mainland territories. There are also lesser territories that are under the administration of the federal government.... Territorial evolution of Australia Territorial evolution of Australia This is a list of the evolution of the borders of the colonies and later states of Australia. It lists each change to the internal and external borders of Australia before and after Federation.... Proposals for new Australian States Proposals for new Australian States A number of proposals for further states of Australia have been made in the past century. So far, no new State have been added to the Commonwealth since Federation of Australia in 1901.... External References Gladstone... City that waited, Lorna McDonald, ISBN 095991241X