Animal Research Institute Buildings
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Stock Experiment Station main building, 2008
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| Location | 681 Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°31′29″S 153°00′44″E / 27.5246°S 153.0121°ECoordinates: 27°31′29″S 153°00′44″E / 27.5246°S 153.0121°E |
| Official name: Animal Research Institute (former), Stock Experiment Station (1909-1932), Animal Research Station (1932-1953) | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 13 June 2008 |
| Reference no. | 602598 |
| Significant period | 1909 - 2010 |
 Location of Animal Research Institute Buildings in Queensland
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Animal Research Institute Buildings is a heritage-listed set of research station buildings at 681 Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as Stock Experiment Station (1909-1932) and Animal Research Station (1932-1953). It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 June 2008.
The former Animal Research Institute at Yeerongpilly was established by the Department of Agriculture and Stock (now the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, part of the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation) in 1909 as the Stock Experiment Station. The Station was the first purpose-built, farm-based facility of Australia's first Stock Institute and its work was primarily to research and control diseases in , develop vaccines and improve animal health and production. The complex was extended over time to accommodate the changing needs of the Institute, the University of Queensland's first veterinary training facility in 1938-1940 and then, between 1933 and 1967, the interrelated work of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In 1889 an Intercolonial Stock Conference in Melbourne recommended that an Australasian Stock Institute be established to study diseases in livestock; however the various colonies could not reach agreement on the matter. The first such institute was set up in Queensland in 1893 following a deputation of stock owners to the then Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Berkeley Basil Moreton. The was initially set up in rented premises in Turbot Street, Brisbane, under bacteriologist Charles Joseph Pound. The premises included a laboratory and a museum.
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