Pleasure

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

Location

Cherbourg, QLD

Australia

26° 17' 30.804" S, 151° 57' 21.1968" E

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2 September 2011

St Lucia

University of Queensland Press

Reproduced with permission from Thom Blake

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.

Where the big things are, 1983

QLD

Australia

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1 January 1983

29 April 2011

Location

QLD

Australia

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29 April 2011

The cane toad times

Collection of Anne Jones and The cane toad times

Where the big things are, 1983. In the first edition of The cane toad times, an irreverent journal about all things Queensland, an article on ‘Big Things’ featured this map. The paper stated, ‘In Queensland, we are unusually blessed with Big Things; the joy of the Big Mower, the awe of the Big Car Stereo, the effort of emptying enough stubbies to build the Big Stubbie, the ludicrousness of the Big Seagull holding a lawn bowl, the shabbiness of the Big Clown and the Big Flagman at Santaland, the terror of the Big Hammer poised to pulverise cars venturing to Ipswich – these Big Things and many others enrich our lives.’ It was estimated that there were at least 50 ‘Big Things’ within 100 miles of Brisbane. The cane toad times, September 1983

Sketch map, Lamington National Park, c1940s

Lamington National Park

QLD

Australia

28° 11' 48.948" S, 153° 11' 13.1496" E

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22 December 2010

Location

Lamington National Park

QLD

Australia

28° 11' 48.948" S, 153° 11' 13.1496" E

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22 December 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Sketch map, Lamington National Park, c1940s. The map indicates graded pathways, rough tracks, trackless routes, waterfalls and measures all distances from Binna Burra. It includes annotations such as 'wonderful view', 'bell bird colony', and 'lovely forests mixed with palms and gum trees'. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Bushwalking Club, University of Queensland, 1958-59. Slides by Patrick Conaghan. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, The University of Queensland

Lamington National Park, 1947

Lamington National Park

QLD

Australia

28° 11' 48.948" S, 153° 11' 13.1496" E

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1 January 1947

21 December 2010

Location

Lamington National Park

QLD

Australia

28° 11' 48.948" S, 153° 11' 13.1496" E

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21 December 2010

Brisbane

Government Printing Office

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Lamington National Park, Queensland, 1947. Walking tracks are indicated by the broken red line, and the boundary of the national park is in green. Drawn and published at the Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, February 1947. Price 1 shilling. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Bushwalking in Queensland

From the earliest days of settlement Europeans could be found strolling, rambling, tramping and trekking in the Australian bush for pleasure.

Fossicking on the exposed reef at low tide was one of the main activities for early holidaymakers, c1932. Collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Snorkellers explore corals at Tween Island, 1983. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority