The town of Caboolture (27°04'S, 152°58'E) is the administrative centre of the Caboolture Shire Local Government Area in South East Queensland, Australia, part of the County of Canning, Queensland.

Business and Economy: All the above groups have attracted a large expansion of retail and service industries, such as the Morayfield Shopping Centre - a major outer-Brisbane centre offering all the services enjoyed by any other Brisbane suburb .

Transport: Caboolture is a regional major transport hub. With its connections across the Great Dividing Range via the D'Aguilar highway, easy highway access to Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast via the Bruce Highway, and major road to Bribie Island, it is a focal point for road traffic. Caboolture railway station is the terminus for QR Citytrain's Caboolture railway line, as well as being a major stop on the North Coast railway line. Citytrain operates a 6-car half-hourly service to Brisbane and Ipswich, in addition to interurban services from Nambour and Gympie. Significant expansion of rail services north of Caboolture is planned for the next two decades. The Shire and surrounds are also serviced by several bus companies, the largest of which is Kangaroo Bus Lines. In addition there is an airfield that services GA and recreational aviation.

Population pressure: With the increased population growth of the shire, significant pressure is being placed on the transport network. The car parks at Caboolture, Morayfield and Burpengary stations are at over capacity, despite several expansions in recent years.

Economy: Queensland's economy has enjoyed a boom in the tourism and mining industries over the last twenty years. A sizeable influx of interstate and overseas migrants, large amounts of federal government investment, increased mining of vast mineral deposits and an ever expanding aerospace sector ensure that the state will remain Australia's fastest growing economy in the foreseeable future.
Between 1992 and 2002, the growth in the Gross State Product of Queensland outperformed that of all the other states and territories. In that period Queensland's GSP grew 5.0% each year, while growth in Australia's GDP rose on average 3.9% each year. Queensland's contribution to the Australian GDP also increased (by 10.4%) in that period, one of only three states to do so.
In 2003 Brisbane city had the lowest cost of living of all Australia's capital cities. As of late 2005 Brisbane is the third most expensive capital for housing after Sydney and Canberra and just ahead of Melbourne by $15,000.
Primary industries include: bananas, pineapples, peanuts, a wide variety of other tropical and temperate fruit and vegetables, grain crops, wineries, cattle raising, cotton, sugar cane, wool and a mining industry including bauxite, coal, silver, lead, zinc, gold, and copper.[citation needed]
Secondary industries are mostly further processing of the above-mentioned primary produce: bauxite from Weipa is converted to alumina at Gladstone. There are also copper refining and the refining of sugar cane to sugar.[citation needed]
Major tertiary industries are the retail trade and tourism

Fencing: In the broadest possible sense, fencing is the art of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Examples include swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, batons, clubs, and similar weapons. This definition is a stretch of the word, however. "Fencing" wasn't invented until either the Renaissance or at the very end of the Late Middle Ages, depending on who you ask. For weapon styles pre-dating this origin, "melee" or "Western Martial Arts" are better descriptors. In contemporary common usage, "fencing" tends to refer specifically to European schools of swordsmanship and to the modern Olympic sport that has evolved out of them
The word 'fence' was originally a shortening of the Middle English 'defens'. The first known use in reference to swordsmanship is in William Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.