Thallon, Queensland Thallon, Queensland Thallon is a town and locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia. At the , Thallon and the surrounding area had a population of 382. Thallon is in South West Queensland, west of the state capital, Brisbane. Thallon is between St George and the border with New South Wales at Mungindi. The town is named after a Queensland Commissioner for Railways, James Forsyth Thallon. Explorer Thomas Mitchell was the first European in the Thallon district and his initials can still be found on a bloodwood tree near the Moonie River. In 1911, the area was set aside
Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) first winning the post in the 1985 election with Sallyanne Atkinson. The party also won a majority on the council and held both in the 1988 election. Following Atkinson's defeat in the 1991 election, the Liberals did not win the mayoralty again until the 2004 election when Campbell Newman won the post but with a Labor majority on the council. Newman was re-elected in 2008, this time with a Liberal majority on the council. Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) The Liberal Party, originally the Queensland People's Party, was a political party in Queensland, Australia, from the Second World War