A better-funded Burdekin Library absorbed the old Ayr School of Arts bookstock.
Cairns international airport opened, supplanting Townsville as the gateway for Japanese tourists.
Kidston gold mine, the largest open-cut gold mine in Australia, reopens.
Cane toads reach the Queensland/Northern Territory border.
March
29 The largest coal terminal in the world at Dalrymple Bay opened by Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.