Royal Hotel, Birdsville linked to pedal generators, the others being placed at 4 head stations in far western Queensland and at the Aboriginal Mission at Mornington Island, with base station VJI established at Cloncurry. For the first 18 months, communication was by Morse code, but the system proved enormously popular, and soon revolutionised outback communications. Importantly, Birdsville became reliably connected to the station properties in the Diamantina district, and with the new Aerial Medical Service, established by Flynn in 1928 under the auspices of the AIM, and based at Cloncurry. In 1934, nursing sisters Edna McLean and Amy Bishop of the AIM's Birdsville
Softball in Queensland Softball in Queensland Softball is played in Queensland . Softball saw a "benefit" in the bombing of Darwin and the inclusion of Australia in World War II in terms of bringing in American military personnel who brought softball with them to this state. Local competitions were organised by Mack Gilley in the state by 1946. A Queensland organisation was created in 1946 by the American Mack Gilley. The state federation was one of the foundation federation members of the Australian Women's Softball Council in 1949. In 1971, there were 171 teams affiliated with the state organisation, 290 in 1975, 326