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Gladstone is a modern urbanised city in Central Queensland located on eastern seaboard of Australia, some 550kms by road north of Brisbane and 100kms south-east of Rockhampton.

The Gladstone Regional Council area is a growing residential area, with significant rural, rural residential and industrial areas. The Council area encompasses a total land area of about 10,500 square kilometres, including national parks, state forests, coastline, beaches and islands. The main urban centre is Gladstone, with numerous other small townships, including Agnes Water, Benaraby, Boyne Island, Calliope, Miriam Vale, Seventeen Seventy and Tannum Sands. Rural land is used mainly for cattle grazing, with some grain growing, fodder cropping, and timber and tropical fruit production.

Gladstone is named after the British Statesman, William Gladstone, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1845 to 1846.

Gladstone makes a significant contribution to Queensland and the Australian economy. In 2009-10 30% of Queensland’s exports by tonnage carried by sea were traded through the Port of Gladstone.  This trade represented by value some 20% of Queensland’s exports and 4.4% of Australia’s exports.  Gladstone is Queensland’s major industrial location with established world class industries and infrastructure with established linkages to international makets by sea, land and air.

Gladstone is the ideal investment location for large scale projects of national and international significance, as evidenced by the major international resource processing and light metal industries that have chosen to establish within the region.