A gazette is an official journal , a newspaper of record , or simply a newspaper .
16-572: Betoota is a ghost town within the locality of Birdsville , in the Shire of Diamantina , in the Channel Country of Central West Queensland , Australia . Betoota is situated on a gibber plain (a stony desert plain) 170 kilometres (110 mi) east of Birdsville and 227 kilometres (141 mi) west of Windorah . The town has been designated as Australia's smallest. The only facilities in Betoota are
32-611: A government gazette . For some governments, publishing information in a gazette was or is a legal necessity by which official documents come into force and enter the public domain . Such is the case for documents published in Royal Thai Government Gazette (est. 1858), and in The Gazette of India (est. 1950). The government of the United Kingdom requires government gazettes of its member countries. Publication of
48-575: A racetrack , a dry weather airstrip , a cricket field, and the Betoota Hotel. Visitors are drawn to the town during the annual Simpson Desert Carnival which is held in September. Karuwali (also known as Garuwali, Dieri) is a language of far western Queensland. The Karuwali language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Diamantina Shire Council , including
64-459: A gazette"; especially where gazette refers to a public journal or a newspaper of record. For example, " Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded to National Park status in 1968." British Army personnel decorations, promotions, and officer commissions are gazetted in the London Gazette , the "Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom". Gazettal (a noun)
80-450: A grader driver until he bought the Betoota Hotel in 1957. He owned it for 47 years, and was Betoota's sole resident until ill-health forced him to move. The hotel closed in October 1997. Remienko died in 2004. In 2017, Robert Haken, a smash repairer from Logan , bought the long-defunct hotel from the couple Remienko had left it to. It was being restored, with the aim of reopening in time for
96-580: A larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and
112-489: Is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie LGAs; and Woodville , which is split between the City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council LGAs. In unincorporated areas , localities are declared by the relevant state authority. Gazette In English and French speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear
128-795: The Edinburgh Gazette , the official government newspaper in Scotland, began in 1699. The Dublin Gazette of Ireland followed in 1705, but ceased when the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom in 1922; the Iris Oifigiúil (Irish: Official Gazette ) replaced it. The Belfast Gazette of Northern Ireland published its first issue in 1921. Chiefly in British English, the transitive verb to gazette means "to announce or publish in
144-987: The Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been a process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
160-760: The Betoota Races in August 2018. However, that goal was not achieved, "due to paperwork". The Betoota Hotel re-opened on 20 July 2020. Betoota has a number of heritage-listed sites, including a protected area known as Burke and Wills "Plant Camp" . The town's name has been used by the Australian satirical news website and digital media company The Betoota Advocate , although the company is actually based in Sydney. It purports to be "Australia's oldest newspaper". Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are
176-407: The British penny dreadful and the American dime novel .) This loanword, with its various corruptions , persists in numerous modern languages ( Slavic languages , Turkic languages ). In England , with the 1700 founding of The Oxford Gazette (which became the London Gazette ), the word gazette came to indicate a public journal of the government; today, such a journal is sometimes called
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#1733085914035192-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
208-466: The localities of Betoota and Haddon Corner . The town was surveyed in 1887, but only three streets were ever named. The Betoota Hotel was constructed in the late 1880s and is the last remaining building in town outside the race track. The building is constructed of sandstone and has timber floors. In 1885, the Queensland Government opened a customs post to collect a toll for stock travelling
224-510: The name The Gazette . Gazette is a loanword from the French language, which is, in turn, a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazzetta , which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazzetta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazzetta. (Compare with other vernacularisms from publishing lingo, such as
240-509: The names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to,
256-576: The stock route. Betoota was once a Cobb & Co change station. In 1895, a police presence was established in the town as construction of a rabbit-proof fence in the region was attracting many "undesirable characters" to the town. A police station with a court was built in 1915 but was closed in 1930 because an inspection in 1928 found no-one had been taken into custody or placed before the court in more than five years. The hotel operated until 1997, when its owner, Sigmund (Simon) Remienko, retired at 82 years of age. Originally from Poland, Remienko worked as
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