Queensland

Queensland interactive map

Find this map on the publications, resources, programs, organisations, courses and jobs sections of the Queensland Portal to filter content by the following regions:

• Torres and Cape
• North West
• Cairns and Hinterland
• Townsville
• Central West
• Mackay
• Central Queensland
• South West

• Wide Bay
• Darling Downs
• West Moreton
• Brisbane Metro
• Metro North
• Metro South
• Sunshine Coast
• Gold Coast.

Queensland is Australia’s second largest state, with a coastline that stretches over 7,000 kms [51049] from the Torres Strait Islands at the top of the Cape York Peninsula, down to the urban centres of South East Queensland, which includes the State’s capital and largest city of Meanjin/Brisbane, situated on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples [51050]. It is also the most decentralised of the mainland states in Australia with more than half the population living outside the greater metropolitan area of Meanjin [51049].

Queensland has the second largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) population in Australia [48277], making up around 29.2% of Australia’s First Nations peoples and almost two thirds (64.5%) of Australia’s Torres Strait Islander population [51051]. Specifically, in the 2021 Census, 4.6% (237,303 people) of the Queensland population identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander compared with 3.2% nationally [51052]. Along with the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland also has the highest projected growth rate for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in Australia to 2031 (2.4% per year) [51053]. Of those who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Queensland, 81.5% identify as Aboriginal, 9.2% as Torres Strait Islander, and 9.3% as both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander [51054].

Reducing the disparity of health outcomes between First Nations peoples and other Queenslanders, as well as between remote and urban areas across Queensland, is a priority. Closing this gap is also embedded in the care and determination of First Nations community controlled health services (ATSICCHS), which are guided by the State’s peak body, the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC). A list of QAIHC’s thirty one Member ATSICCHSs and two regional organisations (the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) and the Northern Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Alliance (NATSIHA)) can be found on the Map of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health/medical services.

The Making tracks toward closing the gap in health outcomes for Indigenous Queenslanders by 2033 set out Queensland Health’s commitment to health equity by working in genuine partnerships with First Nations peoples and organisations, such as QAIHC, and through recognising self-determination [19393]. This is re-affirmed across all 16 of Queensland’s Health and Hospital Services in their Health Equity Strategies, and in the HealthQ32: First Nations First Strategy 2032, which aims to ensure a better integrated, culturally safe health system that recognises the localised health issues faced by First Nations peoples across Queensland [48613].