Tully, Queensland
Encyclopedia
Tully is a small town in Queensland
, Australia
, adjacent to the Bruce Highway
approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Cairns by road and 210 kilometres (130.5 mi) north of Townsville. At the 2006 census
, Tully had a population of 2,457.
The Tully River
(previously known as the Mackay River) was named after Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully in the 1870s. The town of Tully was then named after the river (previously it had been known as Banyan).
Tully is one of the larger towns of the Cassowary Coast Region. Prior to the shire's amalgamation in 2008, Tully was the administrative centre for the Shire of Cardwell
. The economic base of the region is agriculture
; sugar cane and banana
s being the dominant crops grown. The sugar cane grown at the many farms in the district is processed locally at the Tully Sugar Mill to give raw sugar which is shipped elsewhere for refinement.
for said title. In 2003 a giant gumboot (the "Golden Gumboot
") was erected as a monument to the town's climate; it also serves as a museum documenting past floods, as well as displaying the current rainfall for the year.
, situated just over half-way between Townsville and Cairns. By 10 December 1924, Tully was connected with both Townsville and Innisfail
.
, Kennedy, Mission Beach
, Wongaling Beach, Tully, Feluga, El Arish
and various other small centres) since its establishment in 1964. Tully State High School has an enrolment of approximately 630 students. As of 2011, Ms Fox is the principal of the school.
Tully State High School has been accredited as a Centre of Excellence
in Mathematics
, Science
and Technology
and is also one of only a few Reef Guardian schools. The campus is situated on extensive grounds, 38 hectares, and includes an aquaculture
centre, a worm
farm
, an arboretum
, a banana
crop, a herd
of cattle
and several sports fields.
The previously mentioned worm farm is managed by the school based company "Banyan Worms", which was founded in 2004 and comprises year 10 Business
Education
students. The company is a part of the Young Achievement Australia programme and enjoyed success at trade expositions at local, state and national levels in 2004.
In 2006, another Young Achievement Australia business was set up by the year 10 business students, "Yamanii boxer shorts".
Also, in 2007, there were two business classes who participated in YAA: Yanique, making environmentally-friendly cards and VouchYa, making coupon booklets. Both classes did extremely well and both went away and were successful at the local, state and national awards.
Three main sporting events are contested by the school's four sports houses (Walter Hill - green, Tyson - blue, Kirrima - yellow and Mackay - red) each year: a swimming carnival; an athletics
carnival; and a cross country
run (through the cane paddocks near the school and along the Banyan).
The events of the school are chronicled each year in the school's student-produced magazine - the "Waltykima" (the name an amalgamation of the initial letters of the names of the school's sports houses).
Tully State High School's motto is "Quanti est sapere", which means "How valuable is wisdom".
The high school was destroyed by Cyclone Yasi
in 2011 and will need to be rebuilt.
primary school
which was erected in 1928.
. Tully was once one of the biggest sporting hubs in Far North Queensland, but since the economic crisis has hit, they are looking for more and more ways to support their clubs. Stephen Cairns also played a grade Rugby League in North Queensland , Sydney , Goldcoast.
Tully is the last place reclusive All Black
rugby player Keith Murdoch
has been sighted.
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, adjacent to the Bruce Highway
Bruce Highway
The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is a part of the Australian National Highway and also part of Highway 1...
approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Cairns by road and 210 kilometres (130.5 mi) north of Townsville. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...
, Tully had a population of 2,457.
The Tully River
Tully River
The Tully River is a river situated within the Cassowary Coast Region of North Queensland, named after William Alcock Tully, Queensland Surveyor-General from 1875-89.The Bruce Highway crosses the river south of Tully...
(previously known as the Mackay River) was named after Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully in the 1870s. The town of Tully was then named after the river (previously it had been known as Banyan).
Tully is one of the larger towns of the Cassowary Coast Region. Prior to the shire's amalgamation in 2008, Tully was the administrative centre for the Shire of Cardwell
Shire of Cardwell
The Shire of Cardwell was a Local Government Area of Queensland. It was located on the Coral Sea coast about halfway between the cities of Cairns and Townsville...
. The economic base of the region is agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
; sugar cane and banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
s being the dominant crops grown. The sugar cane grown at the many farms in the district is processed locally at the Tully Sugar Mill to give raw sugar which is shipped elsewhere for refinement.
Weather
With an average annual rainfall exceeding 4000 millimetres (157.5 in), and the highest ever annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia (7900 millimetres (311 in) in 1950), Tully is arguably the wettest town in Australia - a rivalry exists between Tully and the nearby town of BabindaBabinda, Queensland
Babinda is a small town 60 km south of Cairns, Queensland. It is located in the Cairns Region.The town is noted for its proximity to two of Queensland's highest mountains Mount Bartle Frere and Mount Bellenden Ker....
for said title. In 2003 a giant gumboot (the "Golden Gumboot
Golden Gumboot
The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail, and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns exist in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest. These areas experience some of the highest level...
") was erected as a monument to the town's climate; it also serves as a museum documenting past floods, as well as displaying the current rainfall for the year.
Cyclone Yasi
Buildings in Tully were badly damaged by Cyclone Yasi on 3 February 2011. According to residents, Tully was "...a scene of mass devastation". An unknown number of homes were completely destroyed as intense winds, estimated at 300 km/h (186.4 mph), battered the area. Many other homes not destroyed sustained severe facade and or roof damage. As daybreak came, reports from the town stated that about 90 per cent of the structures along the main avenue sustained extensive damage.Transport
Tully is a prominent station on the main North Coast Railway LineNorth Coast railway line, Queensland
The North Coast railway line is a narrow gauge railway line in Queensland, Australia. It runs from Brisbane, along the Queensland coast to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The line is electrified between Brisbane and Rockhampton...
, situated just over half-way between Townsville and Cairns. By 10 December 1924, Tully was connected with both Townsville and Innisfail
Innisfail, Queensland
Innisfail is a town located in the far north of the state of Queensland, Australia. It is the major township of the Cassowary Coast and is well renowned for its sugar and banana industries, as well as for being one of Australia's wettest towns...
.
Tully State High School
Tully State High School has serviced students in the Tully district (comprising CardwellCardwell, Queensland
Cardwell is a tropical coastal town in northeastern Queensland. It is located at the southern extremity of the Cassowary Coast. At the 2006 census, Cardwell had a population of 1,250. The Bruce Highway National Highway 1 and the North Coast railway line are the dominant transport routes;...
, Kennedy, Mission Beach
Mission Beach, Queensland
Mission Beach is a small village along the Coral Sea in Queensland, Australia. The popular tourist destination of Dunk Island lies 4 km offshore.-History:...
, Wongaling Beach, Tully, Feluga, El Arish
El Arish, Queensland
El Arish is a small town in Queensland, Australia named after a city in Egypt. At the 2006 census, El Arish had a population of 232.The town was founded in 1921 as a Soldier settlement area. The area was later settled by Italian Australians who worked in the sugar cane fields...
and various other small centres) since its establishment in 1964. Tully State High School has an enrolment of approximately 630 students. As of 2011, Ms Fox is the principal of the school.
Tully State High School has been accredited as a Centre of Excellence
Centre of Excellence
Centre of Excellence may refer to:*Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation, established by the Australian Research Council*Centre of Excellence in Lasers and Optoelectronic Sciences set up by the Cochin University of Science and Technology, India*Centre of Excellence on Public...
in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and Technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
and is also one of only a few Reef Guardian schools. The campus is situated on extensive grounds, 38 hectares, and includes an aquaculture
Aquaculture
Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants. Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the...
centre, a worm
Worm
The term worm refers to an obsolete taxon used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, and stems from the Old English word wyrm. Currently it is used to describe many different distantly-related animals that typically have a long cylindrical...
farm
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
, an arboretum
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
, a banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
crop, a herd
Herd
Herd refers to a social grouping of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic, and also to the form of collective animal behavior associated with this or as a verb, to herd, to its control by another species such as humans or dogs.The term herd is generally applied to mammals,...
of cattle
Cattle
Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...
and several sports fields.
The previously mentioned worm farm is managed by the school based company "Banyan Worms", which was founded in 2004 and comprises year 10 Business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
students. The company is a part of the Young Achievement Australia programme and enjoyed success at trade expositions at local, state and national levels in 2004.
In 2006, another Young Achievement Australia business was set up by the year 10 business students, "Yamanii boxer shorts".
Also, in 2007, there were two business classes who participated in YAA: Yanique, making environmentally-friendly cards and VouchYa, making coupon booklets. Both classes did extremely well and both went away and were successful at the local, state and national awards.
Three main sporting events are contested by the school's four sports houses (Walter Hill - green, Tyson - blue, Kirrima - yellow and Mackay - red) each year: a swimming carnival; an athletics
Athletics (track and field)
Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
carnival; and a cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
run (through the cane paddocks near the school and along the Banyan).
The events of the school are chronicled each year in the school's student-produced magazine - the "Waltykima" (the name an amalgamation of the initial letters of the names of the school's sports houses).
Tully State High School's motto is "Quanti est sapere", which means "How valuable is wisdom".
The high school was destroyed by Cyclone Yasi
Cyclone Yasi
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in northern Queensland, Australia in the early hours of Thursday, 3 February 2011. Yasi originated from a tropical low near Fiji. The system intensified to a Category 3 cyclone at about 5pm AEST on 31 January 2011...
in 2011 and will need to be rebuilt.
Tully State School
Tully State School caters to the educational needs of the town's primary school children. When erected in 1924, it was known as Banyan Provisional and has since gone through a number of name changes: Tully Provisional (1925); Tully State School (1926); Tully State Rural School (1934); Tully State Rural and High School (1951); and reverted to Tully State School in 1964. The school's current motto is "Work well and succeed".St. Clare's Parish School
St. Clare's Parish School is a CatholicCatholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
primary school
School
A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...
which was erected in 1928.
Tully Tigers
Tully Tigers, is the local Rugby League club. One of their most famous juniors is former Cowboys forward Peter JonesPeter Jones
Peter Jones or Pete Jones may refer to:*Peter Jones , English actor*Peter Jones , Australian rules footballer for Carlton...
. Tully was once one of the biggest sporting hubs in Far North Queensland, but since the economic crisis has hit, they are looking for more and more ways to support their clubs. Stephen Cairns also played a grade Rugby League in North Queensland , Sydney , Goldcoast.
Tully is the last place reclusive All Black
All Blacks
The New Zealand men's national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport....
rugby player Keith Murdoch
Keith Murdoch (All Black)
Keith Murdoch is a former rugby union footballer from New Zealand.-Career:Murdoch, a prop, played for Otago from 1964 to 1972, except for one season each for Hawke's Bay and Auckland . He represented New Zealand from 1970-1972, playing in 27 matches for the All Blacks, including three test matches...
has been sighted.