Kabra

History

In the 1860s, Cargoogie Mountain (or Police Mountain) adjacent to Kabra was an outpost for the Native Police. It served as a depot for troopers and horses, and messages would be communicated from this outpost to the main barracks near Rockhampton via heliograph or smoke signals. Skeletal remains, some in manacles, were occasionally unearthed when ploughing the fields around the outpost after it had ceased operations. A post office was opened on 7 September 1887; it closed on 31 October 1977. The first stage of the railway line to Mount Morgan (subsequently extended to Theodore) opened on 15 June 1898, branching at Kabra railway station. The Boongary railway station was named by the Queensland Railways Department and the name Boongarry is an Aboriginal word meaning tree kangaroo and that name also refers to the neighbourhood around the railway station. and the Kabra Provisional School opened on 29 October 1902. On 1 January 1909 it became Kabra State School. Due to falling enrolment numbers, the school closed on 23 February 1941; the last teacher was Harry Adolph Barke. On 29 September 1917, an honour board was unveiled at the Kabra railway station, listing men from the district who served in World War I. It was high and wide and made of polished silky oak. When the railway station closed, the honour board was relocated to the Kabra Hotel where it is now displayed in the dining room. In 2012, Kabra residents began raising concerns about potential health risks associated with an increasing number of flying foxes roosting in the town. A colony of 15,000 flying foxes were living in the town's bloodwood trees. In June 2014, the council received approval from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection to modify local vegetation at Kabra, removing a number…

Geography

The town is in the north-east of the locality on the Capricorn Highway. Middle Creek passes through the town and Gracemere Creek passes through the rural part of the locality. The Central Western railway line passes through the locality from Rockhampton to Winton with the following stations within the locality: * Kabra railway station, serving the town () * Neerkol railway station () * Table Mountain () above sea level The land use is mixed. Housing is not limited to the town area with pockets of rural residential development mainly in the east of the locality. The agricultural use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation but also on modified pastures. There is also some cropping and a number of quarries.

Most-observed species

• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  1,553
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,501
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,267
• Blue-faced Honeyeater

  Entomyzon cyanotis (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  1,254
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  1,247
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,160
• Pied Butcherbird

  Cracticus nigrogularis (Gould, 1837) · Aves
  1,114
• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  1,104