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Bribie Island Mission

Name: Bribie Island Mission
Type of carceral site: Reserve, Station, or Mission
Dates of use: 1890 – 1892
Quote: Those of Bribie, Durandur, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, Belleview, Kenilworth and Jurbil had agreed to my proposals and selected the land on which they wanted Homestead Areas or reserves, and my advent was anxiously expected in other places.
Mission History.
Nailon, Brigida CSB. The Writing on the Wall: Father Duncan McNab 1820–1896. Brigidine Sisters, 2004, p. 87.
Authority: Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Queensland)
location: Bribie Island, Yarun
Contact: Kieren
identifier: SITE-YAR

Media: School children at Mission Point, Bribie Island, being relocated to Stradbroke Island 1892. Courtesy of the Bribie Islander.