Download coordinates as: Lawes is a rural locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.

Further to the south, the Main Line railway enters the locality from the south-east (Forest Hill) and exits to the west (Gatton).

[4] The University of Queensland Gatton Campus occupies most of the north of the locality, consisting of buildings and farms used for agricultural teaching and research purposes.

[6][7] The south of the locality consists of privately-owned farms used for crop growing and grazing on native vegetation.

After the war, it continued to operate as both a secondary and tertiary institution until the high school section was closed in 1962.

[9] On 28 August 1900, a public meeting was held to obtain a school in the district as there was an estimated 30 children who would attend.

Consisting of more than 37,000 thin-film photovoltaic panels installed over 10 hectares (25 acres), it supplies electricity to both the university campus and the Lockyer Valley area.