Pope entered the meet with a career best of 1:11.09 and wasted no time, throwing down a 1:09.89 in prelims to take more than a second off her best time.
Current World Record holder and Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook saw his 50m breaststroke age record go down at the hands of 13-year-old Oscar Kolenbet.
Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus led the women's 200m free field at the 2022 Queensland Championships, topping the season's world rankings in the process.