For today's Geo Quiz, we're searching the Australian outback for a town that has been the scene of some controversy this week.

This is a mining town, in the state of Queensland. It's just over eleven hundred miles north-west of Brisbane.

It's the main administrative, commercial and industrial center for the region. But there's a problem. The town's mayor says there's about "five blokes to every girl" there.

That makes for a lot of lonely bachelors. So mayor John Molony came up with an idea: He was quoted saying: "We should find out where there are beauty-disadvantaged women, and ask them to proceed" to the town.

photo by Michael Rogers

He said the ones who are already there seem to be enjoying themselves.

The mayor says he only wanted to fix his town's problem. But he wound up sparking a firestorm of criticism.

So what's the name of this Queensland town?

You only have one romantic verse to think about it...