TY - JOUR AU - Lahney, Jan PY - 2004/04/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Australian Sugar Industry Museum JF - eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics JA - eTropic VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.25120/etropic.3.1.2004.3444 UR - https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3444 SP - AB - Steam, fire and hard yakka created the successful sugar cane industry!<br />There is more to the sweet tropical grass than the addictive sweet taste, however, and there is more to the Australian Sugar Museum, on the corner of the Bruce Highway and Peregrine Street, Mourilyan, south of Innisfail in far north Queensland, than a collection of old farming equipment.<br />Within its celebration of the sugar industry and the workers whose sweat watered the cane fields, there is an ongoing celebration of learning and art that is affecting not only Queensland but Australia as a whole. ER -