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Name
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Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve
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Type of carceral site
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Reserve, Station, or Mission
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Dates of use
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1908 – 1986
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Quote
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The Department of Family Services and Abos lied to me.
My grandfather came to Purga at 'bout 19 or 18 hundreds
And married a Murri woman who gave him sons.
In 1922 he was given exemption certificate from the Acts.
He came from Mununjali people who lives in Beaudesert.
My grandfather was gammin and told he was free,
but when his son hit the manager his son was sent to Barambah.
Poem.
Fogarty, Lionel. "Mununjali Exemption Man." Lionel Fogarty New and Selected Poems. Hyland House, 1995, p. 8.
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Long ago a brown alighted story was told
as a boy looked up on the hall walls
water flowed to his eyes
for Starlight was carrying snake in his shirt
gut belly
and around the fires a tall man
frightened the mobs that black eyes promised
that night at giant tree, way up
bushes crept in the ant hill
was the wild blackfella
from up north, they said.
Soldier chained him down at the waterhole
but as they bent to dip, sip
behind their backs, old man Waterflow
flew clear, magic
undoing the shackles, without keys
or sounds of saw
saw . . . nuh . . . you didn't saw him.
Poem.
Fogarty, Lionel. "Remember Something Like This." Lionel Fogarty New and Selected Poems. Hyland House, 1995, p. 8.
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The Boss (the Superintendent of the Settlement) stood before us. His name was Mr Semple. He was Scottish, very severe-looking, and spoke with great authority. He informed Grandfather that because of the shortage of housing, it would be impossible for us all to remain together as a family. This pattern of separation dogged us for nearly all of our lives.
Biography.
Hegarty, Ruth. Is That You, Ruthie? University of Queensland Press, 1999, p. 12.
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Barambah was the receipient of deportees from all parts of the state. A list of all the places from where Barambah inmates had been deported would read like a gazetteer of Queensland. Aboriginal people were removed from the capital, Brisbane; from provincial centres such as Toowoomba, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Townsville, and Cairns; from rural towns like Roma, Barcaldine, Beaudesert, and Clermont; from remote communities such Boulia, Eulo and Windorah; from obscure places like Cooran, Copperfield, Coen; from properties such Listowel Downs, Bulloo Downs and Meteor Downs.
History.
Blake, Thom. A Dumping Ground. University of Queensland Press, 2001, p. 35-6.
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Authority
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Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897; Aboriginals Preservation and Protection Act 1939; The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Affairs Act 1965
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Contact
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Dashiell
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identifier
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SITE-CAR
