Aboriginal

Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990. In 1938 the Church of England began the Edward River Mission. The mission's superintendant between 1957-62 was the father of Dr Heather Beattie (nee Halliday), later wife of Peter Beattie, Premier of Queenland 1998-2007. The name of the mission was changed to Pormpuraaw in 1987. A commercial crocodile farm beagn in 1969. Slides by Marie Hayes, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Girls from Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve, 1954.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Queensland Aborigines' Mission Band, 1918. From Edwin J. Brady, Australia unlimited, Melbourne, George Robertson & Co, 1918. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Missions and reserves

‘Surviving the system’

Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape

For Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, everything in the landscape has its place of importance according to spiritual beliefs systems, and knowledge of this has been handed down orally

Tjapukai Cultural Centre, Cairns

Tjapukai Cultural Centre Cairns, QLD

Australia

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1 January 2008

8 October 2010

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Tjapukai Cultural Centre Cairns, QLD

Australia

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8 October 2010

Courtesy of Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, Cairns.

Landscapes of memory: Tjapukai Dance Theatre and Laura Festival

Shared memories of places form the threads that people everywhere use to weave their lives and histories together.

Skyrail Cairns (Research notes)

During 1993 and 1994 the Cairns to Kuranda Skyrail became a hot political issue in North Queensland.

Separating land, separating culture

Before the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 was introduced, many Aboriginal people lived within the boundaries of their own ‘country’ according to cultu

Map of Queensland Reserves and Missions, 1958

QLD

Australia

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1 January 1959

1 September 2010

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QLD

Australia

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1 September 2010

Queensland Parliamentary Papers

Map of Queensland Reserves and Missions, 1958. Location of Government Settlements, Church Missions and Torres Strait Island Reserves. Native Affairs - Annual Report of the Director of Native Affairs for the year ended 30 June 1958, Queensland Parliamentary Papers, Vol 2, 1958–59. Places mapped include Cherbourg Settlement, Woorabinda Settlement, Foleyvale Reserve, Aitkenvale Hostel, Palm Island Settlement, Fantome Island, Yarrabah Mission, Mona Mona Mission, Bloomfield Mission, Hopevale Mission, Lockhart River Mission, Bamaga Settlement, Mapoon Mission, Weipa Mission, Aurukun Mission, Edward River Mission, Doomadgee Mission, Morningington Island, Boigu Island, Dauan Island, Mabuiag Island, Badu Island, Moa Island, Saibai Island, Darnley Island, Yorke Island, Murray Island, Stephen Island, Yam Island, Coconut Island, and Thursday Island.