McKinlay, Queensland McKinlay, Queensland McKinlay is a town and locality in McKinlay Shire, Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 census, McKinlay and the surrounding pastoral area had a population of 417. McKinlay is in the remote north west of Queensland and on the Landsborough Highway north west of the state capital Brisbane and south east of the regional centre of Mount Isa. McKinlay is named for the nearby McKinlay River—itself named for its European discoverer, the Scottish explorer John McKinlay who passed by the area in 1861. Gold was discovered in the area in 1872 and a letter receiving office was opened in
Harlaxton, Queensland election and again in the 2010 election, the booth at Harlaxton North was the only booth in the Division of Groom to record a Labor two-party preferred majority. Harlaxton, Queensland Harlaxton is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located north of the city centre. At the 2016 Australian Census, the suburb recorded a population of 2,547. The name originates from Harlaxton House, probably named for Harlaxton in Lincolnshire, England, and built in 1869 in what is now Munro Street as the residence of Francis Thomas Gregory. Gregory was an explorer in Western Australia, before moving to Queensland in 1862, serving