Macalister, Queensland Macalister, Queensland Macalister is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Macalister and the surrounding area had a population of 486. The town is located in the Darling Downs and on the Warrego Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisbane. Within the locality to the south-east of the town of Macalister is an area known as Apunyal (from an Indigneous word meaning "large plain)". The town is named after Arthur Macalister, Premier of Queensland from 1866 to 1867. The name "Apunyal" is an Aboriginal word meaning "large plain." Macalister Post
National Party of Australia – Queensland the Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) in 1949. A pattern was set in the 1944 state election whereby the Country Party secured fewer votes but more seats than the People's Party; this pattern would continue into the 1970s. Nicklin would continue to lead the party to defeat over five successive elections, but there seemed little prospect of defeating Labour, especially after the introduction of a malapportionment that significantly varied the size of electorates in different zones of the state. In 1957 the Labor Party in Queensland was engulfed in the split that had been growing in the party across