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Aborigines in the Quandamooka
Aboriginal people have lived in this area for 25 000 years or more, according to their history. -
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Quandamooka History
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First contact
Minjerribah people help Matthew Flinder's crew find water at Cylinder Beach. -
Shipwreck
The Noonucal people at Pulan (Amity Point) looked after the wrecked timbergetters Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons shipwrecked on Moreton Island for nearly 6 weeks. -
Minjerribah renamed
Governor Darling renames Minjerribah Stradbroke Island. -
Clashes on Stradbroke Island
January 1831-December 1832: 10 or more violent clashes occurred between Stradbroke Island Aborigines and Europeans stationed at Dunwich and Amity. -
Mission at Dunwich
Four Passionist missionaries set up a mission at Dunwich to convert Aborigines. -
Move to Stradbroke Island.
The entire Moreton Island Aboriginal population moved to Stradbroke Island. -
Dugong hunting
Fernandez Gonzales began employing Aborigines to net dugong -
Paid employment
Paid employment as cleaners and builders’ labourers became available to Aborigines at Dunwich. The employees became known as the Aboriginal Gang the following year and were considered indispensible. They also worked at the piggery, bakery and dairy. Women worked as nursing assistants and domestics. -
Aboriginal Protection Act
Aborigines Protection Act came into being. It was effective until 1977 and was based on isolating Aborigines. -
Fight for wage rises
The Australian Workers’ Union tried unsuccessfully to help its Aboriginal members at Dunwich regarding wage rises. -
Aborigines Progressive Association
Aboriginal activists Jack Patten and William Ferguson formed the Aborigines Progressive Association to demand award wages. Eight of 28 Queensland members were from Myora on Stadbroke Island. -
Moongalba/Myora mission
The Moongalba/Myora mission was closed. Most residents moved to One Mile where the Moongalba buildings were re-erected. The Moongalba families weren’t allowed to live in Dunwich. -
Basic wage
The Aboriginal Gang received the basic wage after years of dispute. -
Royal Republic of Minjerribah
On 23 January, the people of Minjerribah declared the establishment of the Royal Republic of Minjerribah (formerly North Stradbroke Island). The first president was Jack Borey. -
Friends of Myora
Friends of Myora Aboriginal Cemetery was formed to revitalise interest in the mission cemetery. -
Mining protest
Poet Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) led a protest over a mining lease threatening two middens near the Blue Lake national park. -
Myora Aboriginal Cemetery
Myora Aboriginal Cemetery was entered on the Australian National Heritage register. -
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Aboriginal poet and North Stradbroke Island resident, Kath Walker, (Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe) published a new volume of poetry entitled Kath Walker in China. It was the first collection of Aboriginal poetry to be published in Chinese and English. -
One Mile Minjerriba Strategic Plan
A plan was formulated from the ideas of Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonucal to develop a multi-function community complex on East Coast Road, North of Dunwich. -
Native title process
A native title ‘process’ agreement between the Quandamooka Land Council and Redland Shire Council over island land claims was signed. The land claim was over North Stradbroke Island, the Bay Islands and surrounding waters in 1994. -
Native title
An agreement is made to clear the path for achieving formal native title recognition in the Federal Court of Australia in 2011.As the acknowledged traditional owners of the island's land and sea country, the Quandamooka people have an integral role in shaping the island's economic and environmental future.
