Childers, Queensland
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Childers is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Childers had a population of 1,682 people.
Childers Main Street
Wrench and Thompson butchers shop in Childers, 1907
Panorama of Childers, ca. 1956
The rebuilt Palace Hotel
The Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire on 23 June 2000 killed 15 backpackers – nine women and six men – at the former Palace Hotel in the town of Childers, Queensland, Australia, which had been c
Childers, Queensland
…Grace Lutheran Church was laid by Pastor K Scholz on 16 April 1961. The town made international headlines in June 2000, when an arsonist set fire to the Palace Backpackers Hostel, claiming the lives of 15 tourists. The Palace Building reopened in 2002, and includes a memorial to those lost in the blaze, a Regional Art Gallery…
The portrait in oils "Taking a break in the field" by Josonia Palaitis (130x170 cm; 51x67 in) depicts the 15 backpackers killed in the fire.