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Encyclopedia > Gore Highway
National Highway 85
National Highway 85

Gore Highway is a highway in Queensland running from Goondiwindi to Toowoomba. Together with Goulburn Valley Highway and Newell Highway, it is a part of the National Highway's Melbourne-Brisbane link. It is signed as National Highway 85. Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Goondiwindi is a small Australian town of about 5000 people on the MacIntyre River in Queensland near the New South Wales border, approximately 350 kilometres by road from the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. ... Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, is 90 minutes drive west of Queenslands capital city, Brisbane, and two hours from the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast beaches. ... The Newell Highway is a major highway in New South Wales. ... Australias National Highway The National Highway is a system of roads connecting all the States and Territories of Australia, and is the major network of highways connecting Australias largest and most important cities. ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 52,117 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area), and 3,488,750 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (census 2001 [1]). The... Brisbane by night Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. ...


It passes through the Queensland's Darling Downs region. Typical scenery are cattle grazing fields, orchards and grain growing fields. Its elevation to National Highway was only in the 1990s replacing Cunningham Highway for the Goondiwindi - Brisbane section, rerouting interstate traffic through Toowomba and the Warrego Highway instead. The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. ... National Highway 15 National Route 42 The Cunningham Highway is a state highway in Queensland. ... See also List of Queensland highways List of Australian highways Categories: Australia-related stubs | Australian highways ...


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Goondiwindi is a small Australian town of about 5000 people on the MacIntyre River in Queensland near the New South Wales border, approximately 350 kilometres by road from the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. ... Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, is 90 minutes drive west of Queenslands capital city, Brisbane, and two hours from the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast beaches. ...

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Information highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (264 words)
The information highway is a term used, especially in the 1990s to describe the Internet.
It is often associated with the US politician and former vice president, Al Gore, who promoted funding for programmes that led to aspects of the development of the Internet, although its currency was wider than merely Gore — many policy organisations made pronouncements about the so-called information highway or the variant information superhighway.
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But this highway program is quite different from the one that occupied the attention of Gore's father in the 1950s.
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These barons of commerce are plotting strategies for mining what Gore has called "the most important and lucrative marketplace of the 21st century," with expected annual revenues of $3.5 trillion (Gore, 1993a).
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