Kuranda Village

Kuranda, QLD
Australia
8 October 2010
8 October 2010

Location

Kuranda, QLD
Australia

Copyright © Rosemarie Rusch, Collection of Rosita Henry

Map of Kuranda Village by Rosemarie Rusch. Collection of Rosita Henry

Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival

Laura, QLD
Australia
1 January 2009
8 October 2010
8 October 2010

Location

Laura, QLD
Australia

Copyright © Rurik Henry, Collection of Rosita Henry

Shared memories of places form the threads that people everywhere use to weave their lives and histories together.

The small cemetery at Kingsborough. Only a few graves are marked, and most of those are children. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Copyright © Jan Wegner

Three white-flowering frangipani trees and a few scraps of ceramic are all that’s left of these house sites in the tin and wolfram mining town of Koorboora. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Copyright © Jan Wegner

Mungana, c1909. Collection of the Cairns Historical Society

Collection of the Cairns Historical Society

Thornborough Cemetery. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Copyright © Jan Wegner

Steps to the hotel, Queen of the North township, Palmer. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Copyright © Jan Wegner

The corrugated iron tank on the right of this timber-framed humpy has been adapted to a room, with doors and windows cut out.

Copyright © Juliet Meyer

Stumps and corrugated iron tanks are common remains. These are surrounded by custard apple trees, remnants of the garden, and two noxious weeds which plague abandoned mining towns: Chinee Apple (Zizyphus mauritiana) and Rubber Vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora). Photograph by Jan Wegner

Copyright © Jan Wegner

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