Musgrave Park, Brisbane

Coordinates: 27°28′44″S 153°01′00″E / 27.4790°S 153.0166°E / -27.4790; 153.0166
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Musgrave Park
Musgrave Park in South Brisbane
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LocationBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Area6.3 hectares (16 acres)[1]
Created1856

Musgrave Park is a park in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The park is bordered by Edmonstone, Russell, and Cordelia Streets, and Brisbane State High School, and has an area of 63,225 square metres (680,550 sq ft).[1] The park is of cultural significance to Aboriginal Australians.

The park and the former bowls clubhouse (now used as a community centre) are listed on the Brisbane Heritage Register.[2]

History

Musgrave Park is a remnant of the former Kurilpa (South Brisbane) Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from "Highgate Hill and on (to) the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya (

Woolloongabba, Aboriginal people in the 1840s and 1850s would go into South Brisbane to work chopping wood, carrying water, and selling fish.[5] The South Brisbane Recreation Reserve (as it was originally known) was created in 1856.[6] In 1867, it was proposed to build a public grammar school (Brisbane State High School) adjacent to the reserve.[7] In 1884, it was renamed Musgrave Park after the then Governor of Queensland, Sir Anthony Musgrave.[8]

An effort to collect documents related to the Aboriginal historical links to the park was spearheaded by Bob Weatherall in 1983.

ceremonies and dispute resolution.[11]

In 1982, Denis Walker, son of famous Australian poet, Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) was shot at during an Aboriginal protest. About 500 Aboriginals were set up in tents at Musgrave Park to organise their land-rights protest during the Commonwealth Games. [12]

Current use

Jagera Arts Centre, 2011
Safety sign in Musgrave Park

Musgrave Park is home to the Jagera Arts Centre (formerly the lawn bowls clubhouse)

Murri
people.

Each year, the park hosts the

NAIDOC) Park Day, and the Lesbian and Gay Brisbane Pride Festival
Fair Day.

In 2020, the last day of

Afro-American man killed by a police officer.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Conservation Management Study" (PDF). Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Musgrave Park & South Brisbane Bowls Club (former)". Brisbane Heritage Register. Brisbane City Council. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. ^ (Charles Melton, "When Woolloongabba was Wattle-scented", 20 March 1915, pp.58-59 of Melton Cuttings Book, RQHS).
  4. The Brisbane Courier
    . No. 19, 200. Queensland, Australia. 2 August 1919. p. 12. Retrieved 28 October 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ CLARK W. A JUBILEE RETROSPECT.—THE CITY OF SOUTH BRISBANE. The Queenslander (Brisbane) Saturday 7 August 1909 Page 21).
  6. ^ "South Brisbane". Queensland Places. University of Queensland. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  7. The Brisbane Courier
    . National Library of Australia. 28 October 1867. p. 3. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  8. ^ "Musgrave Park, South Brisbane: Conservation Report" (PDF). Streetwalkers Guide to West End. June 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1925236521
    . Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  10. ^ Tony Moore (16 May 2012). "Lord Mayor to meet with Aboriginal elders over park future". Brisbane Times. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  11. ^ "Musgrave Park Cultural Centre". Brisbane's Living Heritage Network. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  12. ^ "Shooting incident investigated". The Canberra Times. 7 October 1982. p. 3.
  13. ^ FAIRA: Historic handover at Musgrave Park
  14. ISBN 0-9585408-4-5
    .
  15. ^ Smith, Douglas; Armbruster, Stefan (4 June 2020). "433 candles: One for George Floyd, one for every Aboriginal death in custody since 1991". NITV. Retrieved 5 June 2020.

External links

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