Welcome to Isis, where you can grab a beer and bet on the slot machines at a local social club or strip off for a swim in the war memorial pool.

That's Isis, Australia, a community of about 6,000 people that is a figurative million miles away from the atrocities committed in the Middle East by the terror group known by the same name.

And as far as the locals are concerned, it is the extremists who should be looking for another moniker.

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Bundaberg Regional Council worker Gary Everett (pictured) walks by the Isis War Memorial Pool which is one of many facilities maintained in the former Isis Shire, a Queensland community that refuses to alter its name

Ray Linton (pictured) is the caretaker at the Isis Club in the nearby town of Childers. The Club was established as a Gentleman's Club around 95 years ago and is currently the towns Bowls and Social Club

The Isis Shire, in Queensland state south of Bundaberg, is proud of its history, and it's name.

Many businesses, including the pharmacy, hardware store, high school, Golf Club and even the high school, all have the name Isis displayed out front, former mayor Bill Trevor told the Daily Mail.

‘Once you start giving in or changing your ways because of those terrorist type activities, then they win and you lose and that’s the aim of the game with those people,’ Mr Trevor said.

Jim Carruthers (pictured) a member of the Isis RSL standing in front of the RSL building. The rural community has vowed to keep its name with pride despite connotation with the terrorism group ISIS

Businesses have not been financially hurt or threatened because of the Isis association but the connotation does follow the community, he said.

When the Isis District Rugby League Football club team, Isis Devils, made the 2014 Bundaberg Rugby League Grand Final, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Grandstand and Bundaberg Rugby League said the teams' name would have to be changed to avoid confusion, Mr Trevor said.

‘We said we won’t turn up if that’s the case,’ Mr Trevor said.

The Isis Devils Mascot at the 2014 Bundaberg Rugby League Grand Final in September. The team was asked to change their name by ABC Grandstand and Bundaberg Rugby League but refused to do so

The bluff worked and the team went on to play in the finals.

In the Middle East, ISIS stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist group that only emerged in the past few years but who's acts of barbarity and military expansion in parts of those countries have made them globally known.

Founded in 1887, the farming and sugar cane community was named after the Isis River in England before later identifying with the Egyptian goddess of the same name.

The shire, which had a population of 6,298 people in 2006 and covers 4,400 square kilometres, maintained its own government until 2008 when it was absorbed with two other shires into the City of Bundaberg in 2008.

Wayne Heidrich, the owner and editor of the Isis Town & Country newspaper and former Isis social club manager, said the rural community is 'divorced by distance' from the acts of the ISIS militants.

'The general opinion is that their actions should have no bearing on our historic name. After all, we had first use of it!' he said.

Visitors at the Isis Golf Club (pictured). 'The club has too much history to consider any name change,' Wayne Heidrich said.

'Our community is proud of the name and what it stands for in our community. Many great families pioneered the Isis district and their descendants remain entrenched member of the community,' Mr Heidrich said.

The community's achievements under the name of Isis are not to be dismissed, he said.

Isis Shire, which sits about 50km south of Bundaberg, was amalgamated by the City of Bundaberg in 2008

Isis' large enlistment of men during the world wars is a point of pride.

If the Shire were to change its name, the community would be letting down ‘their heritage’ and the men who gave their lives during the wars, Mr Trevor said.

‘Remember how many people kept appeasing Hitler because they didn't want to have a fight and instead of having a small fight – we had a big one,’ Mr Trevor said.

The former Isis Shire Council Chambers before the community was included in the City of Bundaberg. It was founded in 1887 and operated its own government for more than 100 years

‘History teaches you a lot about the future and sometimes you have to stand up firm for what you believe in.’

‘You can’t start changing what you do because of what someone else does,’ Mr Trevor said.

‘If I go to the Middle East, I just won’t say I'm from Isis.’