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The district Mount Rascal of in Toowoomba (Queensland) is a district in Australia about 553 mi north of Canberra, the country's capital city.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 23°C / 73 °F
Morning Temperature | 14°C / 57 °F |
Evening Temperature | 20°C / 68 °F |
Night Temperature | 16°C / 60 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 53% |
Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (6 mph) from South-West |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 30% of sky |
General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
23°C (73 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 25th of November 2024
23°C (74 °F)
14°C (56 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
25°C (77 °F)
15°C (59 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
RIVIERA ON RUTHVEN MOTEL
KIMS BEACH HIDEAWAY
Comfort Inn Glenfield
Potters Toowoomba Boutique Hotel
Laguna Apartments
MAS COUNTRY PLATINUM INTERNATI
Great Divide Motor Inn
Apartments 725 Ruthven
City Golf Club Motel
Downs Motel
Videos from this area
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Section car ride with ASSCO (Toowoomba to Warwick, November 2014)
Take a passenger seat ride with ASSCO down the south-west line from Toowoomba to Greenmount. For more information, or to become a member and experience a different way to see Queensland, ...
Get off the beaten track -- Brisbane to Toowoomba
A wrong turn can be exactly the right thing sometimes. Follow us along the plains to peak drive and watch as green farming land, rock cliffs and lush valleys go by. Come and play with the lions...
Rex J Andrews heavy haulage climbing Toowoomba Range at 450T gross
Rex J Andrews heavy haulage climbing Toowoomba Range at 450T gross. Some sections of Toowoomba range are at 12% grade. The five prime movers are hauling a 250T Transformer for high ...
Toowoomba Floods 10 JAN 2011 - Bell Street
Advised that I should move my car from the Chalk Drive Car Park as "the water was coming up a bit" I stepped out onto Bell Street to be greeted with these scenes. Not much chance of crossing...
Heritage Community Award - Toowoomba Open House
Toowoomba Open House is a unique event celebrating Toowoomba's built environment. It provides residents and visitors with the chance to discover Toowoomba's hidden wealth of architecture,...
Dance for Kindness 'Revolution of Love' Flash Mob Toowoomba
Flash mob at KMart Plaza Toowoomba Sunday 9th November 2014 Centenary Heights State High School Students. You can be the change you want to see.
Customer service improvements for customers when visiting the Toowoomba Customer Service Centre
Council Connections Series 8, episode 9. 2014 In this episode, Darren demonstrates the Q-flow management system at the Customer Service Centre at 4 Little Street. Council connections is broadcast...
BIG4 Toowoomba - Park Cabins presented by Peter Bellingham Photography
BIG4 Toowoomba - Park Cabins.
142 Perth Street, South Toowoomba QLD By Matthew DeMaid
Property Video shoot of 142 Perth Street, South Toowoomba QLD by PlatinumHD http://www.platinumhd.tv for Colliers International Toowoomba.
My LAP-BAND Journey....... Week 1 Post-Op
Had my surgery on the 16th of March 2011 at Greenslopes Private Hospital. Spent just over a week at mum's whilst I recovered. Have lost 10.6kgs so far!!! **Note Well: Any negative or...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
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University of Southern Queensland
The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, with campuses also in Springfield and Fraser Coast. The institution was established in 1967 as the Queensland Institute of Technology (Darling Downs). In 1971, it became the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, then the University College of Southern Queensland in 1990 and finally the University of Southern Queensland in 1992.
Drayton, Queensland
Drayton is an outer southwestern suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Toowoomba Region. The first substantial settlement on the Darling Downs in c.1842. The nearby township of Toowoomba expanded more rapidly than Drayton, and in the 1860s the centre of population shifted to Toowoomba, leaving Drayton as a southwestern suburb. One of the oldest buildings in the Drayton area is the Royal Bull's Head Inn.
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
The Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (DDIAE) was a tertiary education facility offering undergraduate (Bachelor level and below) degrees and certificates in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia, from the 1967 until it was elevated to University College status (1990) and later University status (1992) as the University of Southern Queensland. DDIAE was originally a campus of the Queensland Institute of Technology.
University College of Southern Queensland
A transition phase between the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education and the University of Southern Queensland, tertiary education facilities based at Darling Heights, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The UCSQ existed between 1990 and 1992.
Glenvale, Queensland
Glenvale is a district in Queensland, Australia, that comprises part of greater Toowoomba's western suburbs. During the 1990s and 2000s it was a hive of new construction, with new housing estates (developments) opening almost monthly.
Electoral district of Toowoomba West
The Electoral district of Toowoomba West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created with the 1960 redistribution and removed by the 1972 redistribution. The seat was based in the City of Toowoomba. The member for North Toowoomba, John Duggan successfully stood for election in Toowoomba West in 1960 after his previous seat was lost in the redistribution.
Electoral district of Toowoomba
Toowoomba was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in 1912 when the old seat of Drayton & Toowoomba split into Toowoomba, East Toowoomba and Drayton. Toowoomba was abolished in the 1960 redistribution. The seat was based on the City of Toowoomba. The member for Drayton & Toowoomba, James Tolmie, successfully stood for election in Toowoomba in 1912 after the split.
Electoral district of Drayton and Toowoomba
Electoral District of Drayton and Toowoomba was the original seat for the urban settlement on the eastern Darling Downs. In 1912, it was redistributed into Drayton (1912–1927), Toowoomba (1912–1960) and East Toowoomba (1912–1950). The district elected one member from 1860 to 1878 and two members from 1878 to 1888. The seat is notable for Member and perennial Toowoomba Mayor William Henry Groom who went on to be the region's representative at the first Commonwealth Parliament in 1901.
Darling Heights, Queensland
Darling Heights is an outer southern suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland. Its Local Government Area is the Toowoomba Region. It lies on the southern edge of the city, on the west ridge. The land falls away steeply to the west toward Drayton, the slope being occupied by detached bungalow housing with an admixture of larger homes, duplexes and small blocks of units. Most of these dwellings are less than 10 years old, the area having previously been mostly horse paddocks, of which few remain.
Harristown State High School
Harristown State High School is a public High School located in Toowoomba, Queensland. It was officially opened in 1955. The school currently has approximately 1500 students and is the largest on the Darling downs.
Concordia Lutheran College
Concordia Lutheran College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school of the Lutheran Church of Australia, located in Toowoomba on the Darling Downs of Queensland, Australia. Concordia Memorial College was renamed Concordia College and later renamed Concordia Lutheran College, after merging with Martin Luther Primary School and Concordia Primary School.
Toowoomba Region
The Toowoomba Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs part of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the early 1900s and beyond. It has an estimated operating budget of A$162 million.
Wyreema, Queensland
Wyreema is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Wyreema had a population of 1,109. A suburban rail motor service from Toowoomba commenced in May, 1917, running to Wyreema, 10 miles away. It was extended to Cambooya and to Willowburn in 1918. They ceased around 1923.
Centenary Heights, Queensland
Centenary Heights is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 4 kilometres from the central business district. Previously part of Middle Ridge, the area was named Centenary Heights in 1960 in honour of the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.
Finnie, Queensland
Finnie is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 11 kilometres from the central business district. A railway station in the area was named Finnie on 29 April 1915 after a studmaster. The station closed in 1989, and the suburb was officially named in 1999.
Mount Rascal, Queensland
Mount Rascal is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 12 kilometres from the central business district. The suburb is named after a local land feature which was named by the Minister for Lands in April 1969.
Vale View, Queensland
Vale View is a rural locality south of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 14 kilometres from the central business district.
Top Camp, Queensland
Top Camp is a locality near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 9 kilometres from the city centre via New England Highway.
Harristown, Queensland
Harristown is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located to the southwest of the city centre. The suburb was officially named in 1981, and is believed to honour George Harris (1831–1891), a Brisbane businessman. Originally in the Shire of Drayton, the suburb was first opened as the Harristown Estate in 1902, and in 1911, Harristown State School opened. From 1915 until 1993, the suburb had a functioning railway station on the Toowoomba–Wyreema line. After World War II, the area boomed.
Hodgson Vale, Queensland
Hodgson Vale is a locality near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 12 kilometres south of the city centre via New England Highway. The locality is believed to be named for Sir Arthur Hodgson, a pioneer and member for the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrego in 1868–1869. The area is mostly rural.
Kearneys Spring, Queensland
Kearneys Spring is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 5 kilometres south of the city centre via New England Highway. The suburb was named for a family who had a dairy farm in the area. An early irrigation scheme consisting of wooden pipes transported water from the springs, providing Tooowoomba's water supply. Kearneys Spring is divided into western and eastern portions by the wetlands formed by West Creek.
Middle Ridge, Queensland
Middle Ridge is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located 6 kilometres from the city centre. Middle Ridge was named in the 1860s, as the area between East and West Creeks where the teamsters who camped at Toowoomba turned their teams loose to graze. The suburb contains a primary school, Middle Ridge State School.
Preston, Queensland
Preston is a locality south-east of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to the east of Hodgson Vale. It was named in 1999.
South Toowoomba, Queensland
South Toowoomba is an inner suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located directly south of the city centre. The suburb is home to City Golf Course, the Downs Shopping Centre, St Saviour's College and Toowoomba South State School.
Royal Bull's Head Inn
The Royal Bull's Head Inn is a historical property located in Drayton, Queensland, Australia. It is currently managed as a trust property by the National Trust of Queensland.