Misplaced Pages

#694305

15-541: Download coordinates as: Bokarina is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region , Queensland , Australia, located within the Kawana Waters urban centre. In the 2021 census , Bokarina had a population of 1,935 people. The name Bokarina was bestowed at the request of the land developer, Alfred Grant Pty Ltd, in the belief that the name was an Aboriginal expression indicating middle i.e. half-way along

30-611: 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

45-459: 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)

60-580: 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

75-489: 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

90-795: 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

105-987: 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

120-407: 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

135-513: The Kawana Waters land-development scheme in 1969. In the early 1980s, Bokarina emerged as Bokarina Beach, with an initial subdivision between the foreshore reserve and the sports complex on Nicklin Way . Kawana Waters State High School opened 28 January 1986. Bokarina State School opened on 27 January 1987. On 1 January 2006 the two schools was amalgamated to form Kawana – Bokarina State College, which

150-438: 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

165-510: 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

SECTION 10

#1732904939695

180-509: 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,

195-538: The next most common languages were 0.6% German, 0.6% Mandarin, 0.4% Tagalog, 0.4% Cantonese, 0.3% Punjabi. In the 2016 census , Bokarina had a population of 1,351 people. In the 2021 census , Bokarina had a population of 1,935 people. Kawana Waters State College is a government primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at 119 Sportsmans Parade ( 26°44′27″S 153°07′35″E  /  26.7409°S 153.1264°E  / -26.7409; 153.1264  ( Kawana Waters State College ) ). In 2018,

210-479: The school had an enrolment of 1,614 students with 130 teachers (118 full-time equivalent) and 64 non-teaching staff (45 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. Kawana Waters Uniting Church is at 3 Honeysuckle Drive ( 26°44′11″S 153°07′54″E  /  26.7364°S 153.1317°E  / -26.7364; 153.1317  ( Kawana Waters Uniting Church ) ). Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are

225-808: Was renamed on 3 March 2006 to become Kawana Waters State College . Kawana Waters Uniting Church was dedicated by Reverend Raymond F. Hunt (Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod ) on 20 July 1986. In the 2011 census , Bokarina had a population of 1,235 people, 50.9% female and 49.1% male. The median age of the Bokarina population was 38 years, 1 year above the national median of 37. 81.8% of people living in Bokarina were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 5.1%, New Zealand 4.7%, Philippines 0.6%, Scotland 0.5%, Germany 0.5%. 93.9% of people spoke only English at home;

#694305