Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990

Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990. Slides by Marie Hayes. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland, 2013

Crocodile skinning, North Queensland, 1946

Skinning crocodiles is a skilled and unpleasant task as the skin needs to be cut away – it cannot be pulled away from the body like mammal skin.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Stylin’ Up Regional album cover, 2010

Stylin' Up Regional album cover, 2010. The Brisbane City Council Stylin' Up Regional 2005-10 included music from Cherbourg, Hopevale, Logan and Woorabinda.

Collection of Katelyn Barney

Muddy Flats Band

Copyright © Katelyn Barney

Cherbourg musician Angus Rabbitt (left) and others performing

Cherbourg musician Angus Rabbitt (left) and others performing, Collection Ration Shed Museum

Collection © Ration Shed Museum

Barambah Aboriginal Settlement in the 1920s showing the areas of Bralbin Creek and also Muddy Flats, 2001

Cherbourg, QLD
Australia
26° 17' 30.804" S, 151° 57' 21.1968" E
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1 January 2001
2 September 2011
2 September 2011

Location

Cherbourg, QLD
Australia
26° 17' 30.804" S, 151° 57' 21.1968" E
See map: Google Maps
2 September 2011
St Lucia
University of Queensland Press

Reproduced with permission from Thom Blake

Cherbourg that’s my home: celebrating landscape through song

Cherbourg that’s my home: celebrating landscape through song

Music is a source of great pleasure and an expression of connection to land and history for Aboriginal people of Cherbourg.

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They have made our rights wrong, Mapoon

Mapoon, QLD
Australia
11° 21' 52.9848" S, 142° 20' 45.8016" E
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6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Location

Mapoon, QLD
Australia
11° 21' 52.9848" S, 142° 20' 45.8016" E
See map: Google Maps
6 December 2010

Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

The 1967 Referendum – the State comes together?

They have made our rights wrongs.Protest leaflet, Mapoon, pre-1967. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Plan of six farms on the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, 1859

Fitzroy River
Rockhampton
Australia
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1 January 1859
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Location

Fitzroy River
Rockhampton
Australia
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6 December 2010
Surveyor General’s Department, New South Wales

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Conflict
Conflict: how people contest the landscape

Plan of six farms on the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, 1859. The inset drawing by the surveyor Clarendon Stuart depicts two Aboriginal people observing a boat on the Fitzroy River. Potentially they would dispute the sale of the best land indicated on the plan. Collection of the Queensland State Archives.

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