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In 1990 ‘U can’t touch this’ by MC Hammer topped the charts, East and West Germany united and the World Wide Web was proposed in Switzerland.
In Queensland we saw daylight savings introduced in the summer of 1989-1990, a new stadium proposed for Townsville and the Indy Car Grand Prix secured for the Gold Coast.
You can read the Cabinet Minutes reports by Dr Chris Salisbury, browse the Minutes themselves or search for them on the ArchivesSearch catalogue.
Have you seen strange lights streaking through the night sky, heard an unearthly sound or discovered circles mysteriously cut into crops?
We believe the truth is out there. The truth is also here at Queensland State Archives too. View the collection of Queensland’s X-Files.
