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Cambooya Cambooya, a rural town, is 20 km south-west of Toowoomba. The area was settled by Arthur Hodgson in 1840. Hodgson chose 65,000 acres of choice land on eastern Darling Downs, fertile slopes watered by the headwaters of the Condamine River (Hodgson and Emu Creeks). He named his pastoral run 'Eton Vale'. The ruins of Eton Vale homestead, New England Highway, are listed on the Queensland heritage register. In 1843 New South Wales Commissioner of Crown Lands, Christopher Rolleston, carried out a survey and reserved a site on Eton Vale for a township, lands administration facilities and a court house. He named it Cambooya, a rendering of the Aboriginal word 'yambuya', thought to refer to tubers growing in a water hole. Rolleston's township did not eventuate, however. Hodgson resisted the formation of a township and nearby Drayton instead emerged as the region's principal settlement. Cambooya did become a railway station in 1868, however, when the line was extended from Toowoomba to Warwick, and this development, along with a simultaneous closer-settlement subdivision of part of Eton Vale, overcame Hodgson's resistance to a township. Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/cambooya

Women in medicine In the 1800s, an Australian woman wishing to become a doctor had a tough struggle ahead of her. Australian men were unwilling to accept women into the profession, and were vocal about their opinions of women who wanted to do so: ...a woman who voluntarily devotes herself to a state in which the abandonment of the domestic qualification seems a necessity, is a being whom men do not love and with whom women can hardly sympathise ... – Editor, Australian Medical Journal 1860 Source: ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/fight-rights/womens-r...

Muttaburra is in the central west of Queensland. It is located on the banks of the Thomson River. It is approximately 120km north of the town of Longreach. The main industry in the area is grazing. Muttaburra lay on the traditional tribal lands of the Iningai. Their region includes the landscape between the local government boundaries of Longreach and Barcaldine. Muttaburra is supposed to mean 'the meeting of the waters' or 'meeting place'. (source Wikipedia)

Muriel Alice Lavarack married Frank Jones in 1912 and lived at 'Dalgonally'. They moved to Warwick and Frank died in 1930. With a young family of 7 'Alice' returned to her profession and had a practice in Cracow. She died in Brisbane in 1955. (Source: Dr. Arratta Museum).