Toowoomba
is Australia's largest inland provincial city with a population
approaching 100,000. It is strategically located at the junction of
major highways from Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Darwin, and is
just 90 minutes drive from Brisbane.
Toowoomba is the economic and commercial hub of the Darling Downs and services a diversity of primary and secondary industries.
Toowoomba experiences a cooler climate with less humidity than coastal centres in Queensland.
Education is a major industry in Toowoomba and provides a full range of
educational opportunities from preschool to university education.
Institutions include private boarding schools state high schools, TAFE,
vocational and recreational. Toowoomba has one of the highest ratios of
educational facilities per head of population in Australia.
Toowoomba is served by three hospitals and numerous specialists covering all medical requirements.
Sport is well to the fore in Toowoomba with numerous sporting
facilities - world class hockey fields, indoor sporting arenas, cricket
and football fields and of course, Queensland's only night racing venue
Clifford Park Race Course.
The Carnival of Flowers is Toowoomba's annual event which brings
thousands of visitors to the city from all over Australia, and the
world.
Laurel Bank Park, opposite Laurel Bank Villas, is central to both
Toowoomba city and the spectacular heart of the Carnival of Flowers.
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