Save Straddie Facebook page had its origins in the heat of struggle to end mining February 2011. With announcements later that year about minings end there are new issues afoot with tensions about how the native title corporation is handling the economic transition and budget away from mining. To this end the 'about' Save Straddie …
Controversy Around a Whale Interpretative Centre at Point Lookout
Protest song by Point Lookout resident Clara Durbidge, Change.org petition and 18 739 signatures, radio interviews (with Steve Austin on ABC Radio drive August 2018), news coverage, Point Lookout protest and Vimeo film footage follow pegs in the ground staking out the location of a Whale Interpretative Centre at Point Lookout headlands old tennis courts. Unlikely …
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“North Stradbroke Island begins to become Minjerribah and a whole lot of other things announced” Brisbane Times
Demolition of old Sibelco mining huts on Adams Beach where a new, $3.35 million cultural centre would be built facing the waters of Moreton Bay. "The Minjerribah Cultural Centre should be completed by 2020. It is the second tangible sign of the Queensland government's $29.75 million economic transition strategyfor 23 projects to slowly lead the island …
Save Stradbroke Active in the Toondah Harbour Redevelopment Campaign
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-06/developer-issues-legal-threat-to-minister-over-protected-wetland/10581734?fbclid=IwAR1GbCUwZZL396b8Zarew0N97SYqAe3KVPiL8SWeL8VTY7IBgrSxrUPiRtg "SHOULD PREMIER PALASZCZUK STEP IN AND REVOKE THE TOONDAH PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREA (PDA) PLAN? As we posted last Saturday, the ABC has exposed Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg for rejecting the Federal Government's own independent scientific and legal experts' advice to immediately end the Toondah Harbour Priority Development Area (PDA) proposal. The PDA plan allows …
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All About Adder Rock; Notes Compiled by Elisabeth Gondwe April 2017
All About Adder Notes Compiled by Elisabeth Gondwe April 2017 According to Aunty Margaret Iselin the, name of what we now call ‘Adder Rock’ is Mulmakul. Mulmakul means place of the Death Adder. Adder Rock is a recent name. It is thought to date from the 1930’s and refers to the abundance of death adders. …
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Jandai Language Map of Minjerriba
Quandamooka Language Map Scientific evidence indicates that Quandamooka country has at least 20,000 years of Aboriginal history and less than 200 years of non-Aboriginal history. Yet, colonisation replaced most of the names that Aboriginal people used for places. As a first step in reclaiming local place names, the Museum researched and produced a beautiful map …
Asylum Ward Replica, North Stradbroke Island Museum on Minjerriba
The North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum was officially opened on 22 October 1988 by the Sixth Earl of Stradbroke and Countess Rosie at Point Lookout Hall. It is now housed in a combination of original and replica Benevolent Asylum buildings.The main Museum building: the front section was built by mineral sand mining company CRL using …
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Mining Minjerriba to End 2019
There are three mines on North Stradbroke Island, all owned by Sibelco Australia Limited (formerly called Unimin Australia Limited), a Belgian owned multi-national company:- 1. Enterprise, also known as ’Devastation South’ which would run out of minerals by 2027 (at the latest) anyway, even if allowed to continue longer (see official information under ‘library/resources’ tab). …
2018 Beach and Foreshore Clean-up
BEACH and FORESHORE CLEAN - UP Saturday June 2, 8-9am at TOONDAH HARBOUR Meeting at the tall flags Middle Street G.J. Walter Park, Nandeebie (Cleveland) part of Yura! Welcome! Quandamooka Festival 10.30am, Goompee (Dunwich) and Saturday July 28, 3-4pm at SOUTH GORGE Meeting at the tall flags part of the Yalingbilla - Welcome the Whales …
Mulmakul; Death Adder
Auntie Margaret Iselin told me that Adder Rock's traditional name is Mulmakul meaning death adder and that Adder Rock was place of the death adder. She also said to me that the old people knew it as a "place of healing" as they would lay upon the hot rocks. Mulmakul captures winter's gabura biyigi and …
