North Queensland Airways Brisbane, Queensland with De Havilland Dragon eight-seat biplanes. The airline was plagued by many accidents, three of them accompanied by fatalities: Following this final disaster NQA went into liquidation, and on 25 October 1938 its assets were purchased in full by Airlines of Australia. Its airline services were maintained by the new owner and its successor Australian National Airways. North Queensland Airways North Queensland Airways Pty. Ltd. (NQA) was an Australian company established on 7 May 1936 to operate air services in Queensland, Australia. With its headquarters at Cairns, Queensland it initially had a share capital of 50,000 pounds in
Eastern states of Australia also includes: the Gold Coast, Queensland; Newcastle, New South Wales; and Wollongong, New South Wales as the three largest non-capital cities in the country. In terms of climate, the area is dominated by a humid subtropical zone, with some tropical (Queensland) and oceanic climate (Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, New South Wales) zones. In most situations, the eastern states are defined as those who use Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), and that is the definition that this article will adhere to, unless noted. Since the 1980s, governments have proposed building a high-speed rail in Australia. However, this rail would only go