Reconciliation at Brunswick & Co.
As a developer, Frasers Property Australia acknowledges that we play a significant role in the evolution of the urban landscape, and with that comes a responsibility to respect and actively engage with the Traditional Owners of the land on which we develop.
Our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) focuses on contributing to an inclusive workplace culture and respectful engaging and partnering with First Nations people on their self-determined principles.
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Jagera people and the Turrbal people as the Traditional Custodians of Meanjin (Brisbane), the lands on which we are proud to build new homes and bring together a new community at Brunswick & Co. We pay our respects to the Elders both past and present, and recognise their continuing connection to the land, waters and skies.
Local History
York’s Hollow (Barrambin) is a significant Aboriginal cultural heritage site, located approximately 700m north-west of Brunswick & Co. Today this is better known as the area that covers Victoria Park, the Brisbane General Hospital, and the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA) Exhibition Grounds.
NB: The below information has been sourced via The Old Museum’s Traditional Story of the Land – Barrambin (York’s Hollow).
York’s Hollow played an active role in the lives not only of the Brisbane First Nations people but also other groups within the Moreton Region. The Aboriginal name for the location was Barrambin; it acquired its European name from the Duke of York, the settlers’ name for the acknowledged elder of the local Aboriginal clan. It was a useful food gathering spot, but there are suggestions that it also held religious significance.
Groups of up to 800 gathered at York’s Hollow for ceremonial and trading purposes from as far away as the Blackall Ranges, and such large gatherings were a source of disquiet for the local settlers. There are numerous accounts of raids of the Aboriginal camps by settlers and police, and by the 1850s the European settlement had begun to encroach on York’s Hollow.
John Dunmore Lang’s immigrants settled in Fortitude Valley not far from the site; the Bowen Hills scrub began to be cleared for farming and new estates were being established in Herston. The Aboriginal groups were forced further out to Breakfast Creek and Enoggera, and by the 1860s most of the First Nations people had gone from York’s Hollow. In the 1870s the Brisbane Municipal Council began to fill the wetland lagoons on the Victoria Park reserve to convert it to parkland. The first Exhibition was held at the new Exhibition Ground in 1876.
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