Newport, Queensland Newport, Queensland Newport is a residential suburb of the Moreton Bay Region at the north of the Redcliffe peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. The suburb of Newport was gazetted as the Place Name Decision Notice (No 21) 2008 in the "Queensland Government Gazette – Natural Resources and Water" on , after a submission by the then Redcliffe City Council to the Queensland Government Department of Natural Resources and Water in October 2006. An earlier, unsuccessful attempt by the council to create the suburb was made in the 1990s. Until 2008, Newport was made up
Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Queensland of Queensland, and caters only for women. Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Queensland The Synod of Queensland or Queensland Synod is the entity of the Uniting Church in Australia covering most of the state of Queensland in Australia. It is one of six geographically-based Synods of the church. The leader of the Synod is the "moderator" elected to the position for a period of three years. The moderator has been Rev David Baker since 2014, and his term was extended in 2016 to run until 2020. The Uniting Church has a series of inter-related councils, which do not strictly