Please don't develop this beautiful part of our history. I am not an indigenous person but have spent a lot of time visiting this land site and the cultural significance is prominent when you walk this land. There is a feeling of freedom as the spirits guide you whilst you are there. There are so many beautiful koalas and other endangered wildlife there which must be taken into consideration too.
This is a cemetery and the site of many unmarked graves. This would never have been approved on the Ipswich Cemetery site. Could you imaging the magnitude of the protest then. People would riot but instead we have a small group of committed indigenous people, some elders, the traditional owners of this land, camping out in the elements. With hearts as big as ayres rock these people are standing tall, withstanding the elements to protect their past ancestors and family members. Let's all stand with them and be One together. There is only 1 word to describe this planned development and that is WRONG
7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights QLD 4306
- Description
- Material Change of Use - Community Use (Child Care Centre)
- Planning Authority
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Ipswich City Council
View source
- Reference number
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17522/2021/PDA
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Date sourced - We found this application on the planning authority's website on , over 3 years ago. It was received by them earlier.
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Notified - 21 people were notified of this application via Planning Alerts email alerts
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Comments - 109 comments made here on Planning Alerts
Public comments on this application
Comments made here were sent to Ipswich City Council. Add your own comment.
Please don't develop this beautiful part of our history. I am not an indigenous person but have spent a lot of time visiting this land site and the cultural significance is prominent when you walk this land. There is a feeling of freedom as the spirits guide you whilst you are there. There are so many beautiful koalas and other endangered wildlife there which must be taken into consideration too.
This is a cemetery and the site of many unmarked graves. This would never have been approved on the Ipswich Cemetery site. Could you imaging the magnitude of the protest then. People would riot but instead we have a small group of committed indigenous people, some elders, the traditional owners of this land, camping out in the elements. With hearts as big as ayres rock these people are standing tall, withstanding the elements to protect their past ancestors and family members. Let's all stand with them and be One together. There is only 1 word to describe this planned development and that is WRONG
How is it RIGHT to dredge up this land where ancestors rest. Would you like your ancestors resting place unsettled. There is plenty more land available to use instead of this area. Elders should not have to be residing there to protect such a significant parcel of land. Find another block that has less significance and build there.
Leave this area alone. The Indigenous community, past and present, that occupied/occupy this land deserve the respect they have earnt over the millennia they have inhabited it. May I suggest another place more suited to be torn down and redeveloped as it doesn't have any history or significance to the Ipswich LGA. I recommend 3 Darling St East, Ipswich to be the most suitable place for a Child Care Centre.
I Robert Nitschke oppose the development of a child care centre on this site for the following reasons
1. I have witnessed koalas here.
2. There is a stand of melaleuca irbyana that needs protection that includes 100m of setback.
3. This is a significant cultural site also due to the presence of aboriginal remains that deserve to be researched, catalogued and repatriated.
4. I greatly doubt that a child care centre built beside a site of meaningful historical ugly events will have enough clientele.
This is significantly important cultural land for our indigenous community, actually for the community as a whole. There is a great deal of history that is tied to this land and needs to be incorporated into our cities future.
There are so many things that we can learn from our past that must not be forgotten, buried or developed out.
This land should belong to our indigenous local tribes to be used for the betterment of the whole community.
Under no circumstances should development happen in these culturally significant areas.
I am aware of the corruption and shady deals that have happened for the Deebing creek mission site that have taken ownership away from first Australians and put it in the hands of developers. This should never have been allowed to happen, but now that it has happened, it should be corrected and the land should be handed back to the rightful owners. This development is part of significant land with graves scattered throughout.
There are a lot of developments already happening in the area and wildlife spaces are minimising greatly.
Koalas are already greatly under threat and do not need to lose any more of their habitat.
I do not want this development to proceed.
Please show respect to our First Nations people and leave this site as it is.
Please leave this area alone and immediately revert the zoning back to the original deed of grant in perpetuity. It never should have been changed - it was an act of corruption from a corrupt politician. We know he was corrupt, why are we still living with the consequences of these corrupt decisions? There is an enormous community of people strongly in opposition to this development.
It would be such a genuine act o reconciliation if the Queensland State government and/or the Ipswich City Council would buy back this lan to protect it from real estate development now or in the future. It could be a haven and sanctuary for both community and wildlife.
First Nations people have a deep connection to this place and it also holds a lot of sorrow. To acknowledge the history of Deebing Creek Mission and return it at least to public ownership could help to heal those sorrows if the members and descendants of the Stolen Generation connected to it have a say in its future use.
Finally I feel it would be shameful and sad to allow any development especially a child care centre to be built over possible unmarked graves that have never been investigated.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people.
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area.
I oppose this development and would urge it be bought back from the developers.
I strongly oppose development on this site. This place is of cultural, historical and natural significance and should be preserved as such.
The first and only time I have seen a wild dingo was at Deebing Creek and it is also important koala habitat, not to mention the fact that there is strong evidence that the site contains many unmarked graves.
If the QLD government is serious about reconciliation, this land should be bought back and protected from developments such as what is being proposed here.
I implore the developers to work with the local indigenous community to find another site more suitable for this type of development.
I have been a regular visitor to this beautiful piece of our cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples for most of this year. I have learned about this land and the peoples who were forced to live here together. There has been reported findings of Indigenous bones found on this land so it needs to be preserved. The land needs to be recognised as a significant part of our history. We also need to protect native flora and fauna with a koala corridor on site. Please implore Ipswich Council to reconsider the status of this land and have it returned to its original owners. AVJennings, I beg you to please source land elsewhere. This land needs to be preserved as it is and hopefully in the future descendants will be able to know where their ancestors final resting place is located. Thank you
Out of respect for our First Nations Peoples, leave this land for them.
I also note the protected flora and fauna that live on this land, that our First Nations Peoples have been caring for.
There have been many clearly outlined reasons from other submissions regarding the importance and uniqueness or this site. For development to go ahead here would be an act of attempting to erase history and bury it under a child care centre.
Development happening on this site paves the way for the destruction of so much more bushland around the site. If council cannot see an issue with the development of this site, it will serve as yet another example of greed triumphing over ecological and cultural respect.
The Deebing Creek Mission is an important part of our history that must be preserved. Here is a wonderful opportunity for local and state government to co-operate with First Nations People to create a special place of truth and healing. The site has the potential to become an important and valuable tool for education and reconciliation. It must be purchased by local/state govt and returned to the protectors.
I opposed the development of this site. Leave our ancestors to rest in the dreaming. Do not disturb them. There has been many a significant site destroyed for reasons that are simply wrong. Start consultation with First Nation Peoples and end consultation with First Nation Peoples. Stop destroying our cultural sites. Enough already.
Don't destroy a sacred site. There are unmarked graves from the murders of our ancestors. This is the real Australian history and you need to give First Nation's people the right to protect their country and culture. Please stop silencing us and destroying our country. Don't be a part of the problem Ipswich City Council!
Please leave the sacred land alone it has unmatched value and history, for it to be invaded and disrespected would be truely horrific nightmare and cause more pain and grief to this culture. It’s really no one’s place to suppress such a significant sight
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
Please don't develop this beautiful part of our history. I am not an indigenous person but have spent a lot of time visiting this land site and the cultural significance is prominent when you walk this land. There is a feeling of freedom as the spirits guide you whilst you are there. There are so many beautiful koalas and other endangered wildlife there which must be taken into consideration too.
This is a cemetery and the site of many unmarked graves. This would never have been approved on the Ipswich Cemetery site. Could you imaging the magnitude of the protest then. People would riot but instead we have a small group of committed indigenous people, some elders, the traditional owners of this land, camping out in the elements. With hearts as big as ayres rock these people are standing tall, withstanding the elements to protect their past ancestors and family members. Let's all stand with them and be One together. There is only 1 word to describe this planned development and that is WRONG
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
We submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
I, Karlee Potts, implore the Ipswich City Council to review their current development proposal for the land at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights QLD 4306.
This is obviously a sacred and protected site and the First Nations custodians of this land have been actively protecting this significant massacre site, along with the present endangered Swamp Tea Tree and, most crucially, the inhabiting koalas.
The council should be leading by way of example to be actively protecting and preserving this area as both an extension of respect and acknowledgement for the trauma that is connected there for many, many First Nations people, and the significance of the biodiversity in the area.
I echo the response of Vivien Nisted:
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
The Crime of trying to develop over the site at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights QLD 4306 which has remains of human beings that were forcibly removed from their homelands and forced to Deebing Creek Mission is beyond incomprehensible. My Partners ancestors lay at Deebing Creek after some of his clan were removed from Minyangbal. Developers are also trying to develop in the area at Minyangbal now where several sacred sites, artefacts and bones lay.
These heinous crimes cannot continue, with it not only destroying history, culture and causing inter generational trauma but the blatant attempt to destroy Koala Habitats putting endangered animals, threatening vulnerable and critically endangered animal species along with native flora destruction.
You cannot erase the past by pouring concrete over it hoping the next generations will not know the crimes you are committing today. To say these crimes were only committed in the past is a farce when developers, councils and governments are directly threatening the Original Sovereign Tribal people everyday as is the case for Deebing Creek.
Complicity in Genocide is the same charge as committing genocide under International Law. The Developers, Council, Government and all agents, heirs and successors are personally and vicariously liable for the crime you are committing in attempting to remove Tribal People from their Tribal Estate and will be held to account if your actions continue.
Human rights observers are watching this matter closely.
I am appalled at the proposal to develop over this site which has great historical significance to First Nations people. We should be recognising indigenous sovereignty over this land and not dismissing their sustained and passionate calls to protect land that has such value to them.
This is to say nothing of the site’s importance as koala habitat or as a holdout of endangered melaleuca trees.
There are no grounds on which it makes sense to proceed with this development.
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Catherine Hando
Lutwyche, Brisbane
0422 629 847
This site is not your land and never was. I'm incredibly disturbed by this proposal.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
DO NOT DEVELOP OR TOUCH THIS SACRED LAND.
I, David Christiansen, wholeheartedly dissaprove of this claim to develop. These are significant lands and you must not disturb. No building on the mission!
Please don't develop this land! It is culturally significant, and cannot be replaced. There are many other sites suitable for yet another childcare in the area.
As touched on in many previous comments, there are many reasons why we need to protect and respect this site. Develop elsewhere!
I, Daniel Thompson a descendant of the Yuggera people, strongly object to any further destruction of culturally significant land anywhere, on any portion of what was the Former Deebing Creek Aboriginal Reserve.
More then one of my family bloodlines were placed at Deebing Creek in early times. Through story, an oral history which has been past downed, a massacre or massacres occurred at this mission site. I suggest people perhaps read Billy Thorpe's book named "Remembering the Forgotten"? A book about the history of Deebing Creek? The name of the title says it all.
Within a few hundred metres to this proposed development, a pit with human remains was recently discovered and the Government are pretending it didn't happen. An expert in ancient DNA, proved that recently one David Lambert. He's since been bullied by the QPS for such findings.
And a Childcare centre is the application?
If Deebing Creek wasn't a massacre spot where is the Cemetery? The current cemetery has approx 2 headstones. Where are the rest of the bodies of First Nations people? All different tribes.
This is a National disgrace that it's even being looked at seriously.
The fudged Environmental report, well as others have surely noted, Koalas are everywhere in this exact area and the protectors onsite have recorded that and the threaten species of swamp tea tree.
You are breaching our human rights by even suggesting such a development.
Please do not touch this land ,it is sacred land it should be left as is and not disturbed ..I agree the land is of importance to the first nations people and should be left for them,keep it Natural leave as is DO NOT DISTURB .There are koalas in the area and all there land is already being surrounded with development ..to much history on this site .. DON'T TOUCH the land please leave as is ...can not be replaced..that's true.
Please do not proceed with this development.
The reasons are clear :
1. This is a site of historical and cultural significance to our First Nations people. Taking this area from them and forcing them off this land would be a further act of violent dispossession.
2. It is a site containing endangered flora and fauna (koala and swamp teatree). The recent report on the state of the environment is a clarion call to protect all areas such as this .
3. The approval for development was given by a corrupt councillor.
I implore you to desist from further attempts to develop this area.
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Moreover, oral histories record a massacre occurring at the mission site, and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, are yet to be fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed.
Kind regards,
Angel Bottaro
I strongly oppose development on this site. This place is of cultural, historical and natural significance and should be preserved as such.
The first and only time I have seen a wild dingo was at Deebing Creek and it is also important koala habitat, not to mention the fact that there is strong evidence that the site contains many unmarked graves.
If the QLD government is serious about reconciliation, this land should be bought back and protected from developments such as what is being proposed here.
I implore the developers to work with the local indigenous community to find another site more suitable for this type of development.
I also strongly oppose this proposal. Please do not proceed with the development of this sacred site. The land holds remains from massacres on the deebing creek mission and should not be disturbed. It is also home to multiple endangered species. The space is being cared for and protected by its traditional owners and is not yours to take. This is so important and your proposal will cause irreversible damage to an irreplaceable site of cultural and environmental significance. Build somewhere else.
Hands off Deebing Creek! The local Aboriginal community couldnt make it any clearer. Building on this land would just be the continuation of the colonialism that is killing the planet. We dont need more suburbs! We need the opposite if we are to survive. #Degrowth is the answer.
There is an opportunity to be on the right side of history here. It is August 2022: A referendum on an Indigenous Voice in federal parliament is in draft, and Treaty in Queensland is forming. Act now to correct the mistake of allowing this precious and sacred site to be developed. This development activity must not proceed!
Please do not develop this site which is an important one to both the First Nations people and local biodiversity. The council would do well to reconsider building over this area when the recent federal election has shown that constituents are keen to have real, immediate action by their politicians to protect habitat and support First Nations rights. This child care centre and housing project can be built without destroying these significant cultural and environmental grounds. Please show that you are listening to locals and others to build sustainably and ethically. Thank you.
Please have a heart, not only is the site of historical significance but it is also home to many flora and fauna who desperately need protection.
The ecological devastation from so much development in one area is affecting our native wildlife alot more than anybody realises.
Please, I ask for somebody, anybody to please take these things into consideration at least.
There is an opportunity to do the right thing not only for our beautiful flora and fauna, but for the traditional owners, whose ancestors experienced unfathomable hurt and loss here.
Have a heart, our endangered animals need your help, please don't let them become extinct.
As a resident of Ipswich City Council I echo opposition to the proposed land use change for the following reasons:
1. The area has significance to First Nations people.
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area.
To reinstate justice, the land should be brought back from the developer and gifted to the First Nations people to whom the Deebing Creek site hold cultural relevance.
I am a former resident of Ipswich who has been protesting the development on the Deebing Creek Mission site since 2017, when state police attempted to forcibly remove an elderly woman from the site at the instructions of property developers.
This is a site of significance to First Nations people in South-East Queensland, and the bones of First Nations people have been found on the site. First Nations dispossessed from their land by the settlers were forced onto a mission, away from their traditional lands and family connections. Now we want to even destroy the place they were sent.
The site is also home to koalas, a species unique to Australia that has been made endangered by land development, and to critically endangered fauna. There are plenty of other sites: please deny this application.
I strongly apprise this development request. This is land of significant historical importance. There is a basic human right to have this resting place of elders left to remain as it is today.
Please make a stand and do something positive for the First Nations community in Ipswich by protecting this site from further development. Council has an opportunity to be on the right side of history for once and make up for past mistakes.
I am indigenous and this is a huge slap in the face to my ancestors and my culture. There are so many other loverly places to build a centre. Please please I beg reconsider.
A sacred site and place of cultural significance like this needs to be respected and left alone. It’s richness and value will do more for the community long term than any quick development. People from all over the globe are interested in our Indigenous culture. There is plenty of other space for other issues but there can never be another sacred burial site and it’s precious natural surrounds. There is only one choice Truth to Power. Let it prevail now!
"Be polite, clear, and to the point so your comment gets listened to."
Hello Ipswich City Council,
Throughout the Commonwealth's violent tenure of this great country, you may have forgotten that this country is not yours to be administering, even if we're just talking about the "144 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights 4306" address. Your (ICC) predecessors have illegally and/or dubiously subdivided and sold off the mission since the Deed of Grant in Trust was given by the Queen of England.
It's (deeply) offensive and disempowering to be proposing a childcare centre on JARJUMBAH without even proposing a discussion with any of the countryfolk protecting the land.
The continued tactics of Urban Sprawl development enabled by Corporate interests, community apathy, and the undermining of the First peoples is an insult that respectfully voids your request for comments to be "polite".
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
This site has cultural, environmental and historical heritage. The community surrounding Deebing creek has shown a clear opposition to more devellopment on this land. This includes the neighbouring house owners, often lending a hand to the site occupants. Deebing creek has now food sovereignty with the devellopment of gardens to sustain the small community living there. It has grown over the past two years to be the example on how indigenous rightful custodians owners can organize themselves and stand for their culture, their history and in protection of the land. Hundreds of people have selflessly dedicated their time, money and effort to save this land. Sometimes to the detriment of their own personal health and family life. Please do the right ethical thing: protect the land and return custodianship under the protection act to the Yagarra people on site. I believe Deebing Creek can be used to revive culture, language and indigenous pride in a positive and empowering way. Please don't destroy this. Please stop colonizing heartlessly, stomping on traditional grounds, pouring concrete on the heart of our country. Please respect the community plan for Deebing Creek and return it to its rightful owners.
Child care centre on the bones of First Nations people. I mean seriously?! WTAF. You couldn’t make this stuff up!! Find somewhere else and leave this site to Rest In Peace.
We submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
[Effie McConnell, 0444578049)
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Pania Edmonds 0405987091
It's time to acknowledge our history and respect our First Nations elders, and grow in understanding and respect of sacred sites. This development shouldn't even be in question, horrible injustice.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Kevin Reilly
The rights of indigeneous to culturally significant locations is necessary in town planning, particulary is it burial site. Please do not approve.
Please do not approve this. Consider the cultural significance of this site and the environmental and ecological impacts. Do not develop on this sacred site out of respect.
This is an absolute disgrace. Any council member considering this development should have all their financials scrutinised for kickbacks because this is not what a majority of the population AKA their constituents would approve of. I smell fraud in this one of the dirty council member kind. It should have been wiped already.
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Katrine Mcleod
Consideration to the state Gov treaty plans should be included in this process. As a mark of respect to 1st nations people this is an atrocity that should be moved to a new location and denied at the deeming heights location
How disgraceful to even let this application get processed.
How can this be even considered as an option? How has this site not been bought out and preserved? Where is the human dignity owed to all these first nations people? This proposed development must not go ahead. Even as somebody who is not a traditional custodian of this land, I find the thought of this act proceeding abhorrent, and I strongly implore Ipswich City Council to do the only right and correct thing in this instance and oppose the development in its entirety and take appropriate steps to acquire and preserve this land and treat it with the reverence it respectfully deserves.
I submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
Should not be allowed weather it's aboriginal or any other cemetery once people get laid to rest that's where they stay forever this should never be allowed
We submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
I submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
I submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
Please consider the first nations people whose land we share on our journey. For many, there is a need to re-connect with ancestors lost to them when the family chain was broken by the wrongs of past governments. This site is sacred. It's also a place where non-indigenous people can connect with this great city's history, pay their respects and move forward on the path to heartfelt re-conciliation. Please be the government who places its people first. I also personally feel it morally wrong to build over graves, especially so mass graves, indigenous or otherwise.
This is disrespectful to First Nations People. Under no circumstances should we build over their graves. That’d be like saying “we’re going to build right over Ipswich Cemetery” you just don’t do it. It’s not right, and the fact that it’s even being considered shows how little respect there is for the history and suffering of our First Nation people
Please ensure this land is appropriately conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now (as well rigorous environmental consultation and consideration).
Ditto to every single comment below me.
Please don't develop this beautiful part of our history. I am not an indigenous person but have spent a lot of time visiting this land site and the cultural significance is prominent when you walk this land. There is a feeling of freedom as the spirits guide you whilst you are there. There are so many beautiful koalas and other endangered wildlife there which must be taken into consideration too.
This is a cemetery and the site of many unmarked graves. This would never have been approved on the Ipswich Cemetery site. Could you imaging the magnitude of the protest then. People would riot but instead we have a small group of committed indigenous people, some elders, the traditional owners of this land, camping out in the elements. With hearts as big as ayres rock these people are standing tall, withstanding the elements to protect their past ancestors and family members. Let's all stand with them and be One together. There is only 1 word to describe this planned development and that is WRONG
I am writing with regard to the current situation of planned development at Deebing Creek, at the doorstep of Brisbane.
As I am sure you are aware, sovereign Yuggera Ugarapul land protectors and their supporters have been camped out on the old Deebing Creek Mission site and surrounds for several years now.
The core group of people who either live on site or visit regularly have been hard at work building a protection camp suitable for long term habitation. This includes a number of semi-permanent dwellings for live-in land defenders including a kitchen and common area. There are also spaces for elders and visitors to stay when they come to visit. Other projects include a food sovereignty and aquaponics garden where fresh produce is cultivated to keep the camp well fed, and a range of diverse events to engage with community. Also importantly, corroborees and other cultural activities have been held on site.
These initiatives hint at some of the ways the Yuggera Ugarapul people plan to use the site should they win the battle to gain land rights to this portion of their country.
I wish to ask the Queensland Government to buy back the land so it can be returned to the Yuggera Ugarapul people as the rightful owners of the place.
I also invite you to visit the campsite so to see and further imagine how securing land rights at Deebing Creek would provide the Yuggera Ugarapul people with a permanent base where to continue practicing and revitalising their culture.
Thank you for your attention.
Diffinatly not. This place should be left alone and if anything people should be made more aware of its history.
I oppose development on this site. Childcare centres are important, but there is no necessity to have one built on the old Deebing Creek Mission site. This site is essential, as is it part of Indigenous history in the Brisbane metropolitan area. It is a cemetery and the site of many unmarked graves. (It is also koala habitat.)
For these reasons, it should not be built on, except by the consent of the Yuggera Ugarapul people, the traditional owners of the site.
It is really quite astounding that this process should even be necessary, this land should never have been "sold" and "re-sold" and "subdivided" .
It is well past time that the truth is told about this land and its peoples.
To the Minister for Economic Development Queensland’s delegate at the Ipswich City Council,
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Meagan Marks
Regarding the development application for 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights 4306.
I strongly oppose, and am against the above mentioned development application.
This is something close to my heart, as I share a connection with this land.
This is the site of a mission, where in the past first-nations/indigenous people from the region were held captive, separated from their families and treated with contempt and torturous cruelty, and massacred. There is significant evidence (through oral history, and forensic examination) that there is a mass grave on this site, and that it may be the site of a massacre. The site is also home to endangered trees, koalas, other conserved wildlife, and holds significant cultural importance through it’s landmarks, as well as historical importance as the site of a colonial concentration camp.
I am against any development, land clearing, or disturbance of this site. Any actions taken here must be lead by the appropriate first-nations people, under their decision making processes and consultation. In this situation this development application does not have any merit as it is strongly opposed by the community, and first-nation aboriginal people, especially the Yuggera nation.
As It is well understood and evident, this development application is clearly against the wishes of aboriginal/ first-nation people with connection to this land. There has been a sustained, protest/ camp out led by first nations on the site in opposition to this development, and it is my belief that this development application will continue to be opposed in this way, and in other forms that may escalate.
This is culturally, historically and environmentally significant land, with a rich but violent and important history and heritage, and to desecrate a deeply important site for our first nations people and especially Yuggera mob, is breaking ethical obligations.
It's also worth noting that as far as I am aware, the development application was approved under the leadership of the Ipswich Mayor, Paul Pisasale, who was sentenced for official corruption, and perjury, among other serious charges, and that under this pretence I believe there is further imperative towards seriously questioning and re-evaluating the approval of any development applications, such as this one, which was made during the period where Paul Pisasale was part of the Ipswich City Council’s leadership.
Regarding the lands environmental and cultural significance, I have personally seen Koala’s on this site, as well as other conserved wildlife. There is a significant variety of fauna, including the critically endangered swamp tea tree (Malaleuca irbyana), as well as soap trees, and native medicinal and edible plants. There are also trees that were carved to make canoes by aboriginal people in the past, and stones that are etched from these people sharpening their tool long ago, in the past. Deebing Creek is also valuable habitat and of significant ecological importance and value.
I, among many of my peers, first-nations people local to the area, and the wider community, who care deeply about social and environmental justice, stand against this development application, and any further attempts to disturb, develop and/or privatise this land, or to exclude first-nations and aboriginal people from being on this site, or making decisions about the future of this site.
Furthermore, below I have shared the following message from the wider community:
We submit the following against the above mentioned development.
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
I, Sunny, trust that the opposition to this development application will be considered carefully and subsequently rejected, and that the significant reasons that the development application should be rejected and revoked are enough to ensure this. Doing so is ethically just, due the conservation of the sites cultural, historic, and environmental value and importance.
Kind regards, Sunny.
Regarding the development application for 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights 4306.
I strongly oppose, and am against the above mentioned development application.
This is something close to my heart, as I share a connection with this land.
This is the site of a mission, where in the past first-nations/indigenous people from the region were held captive, separated from their families and treated with contempt and torturous cruelty, and massacred. There is significant evidence (through oral history, and forensic examination) that there is a mass grave on this site, and that it may be the site of a massacre. The site is also home to endangered trees, koalas, other conserved wildlife, and holds significant cultural importance through it’s landmarks, as well as historical importance as the site of a colonial concentration camp.
I am against any development, land clearing, or disturbance of this site. Any actions taken here must be lead by the appropriate first-nations people, under their decision making processes and consultation. In this situation this development application does not have any merit as it is strongly opposed by the community, and first-nation aboriginal people, especially the Yuggera nation.
1. The area has significance to First Nations people – namely, there is convincing evidence that this area contains bones of massacred First Nations people. The First Nations people protecting the land for the past few years have been working with academics to verify this. Why has this not been acknowledged by government at any level?
2. Endangered koala habitat - this is recognised koala habitat (see State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning letter dated 4 Nov 21 to Ipswich City Council - reference F21/13019 in MF4447 - sourced from ICC's online PDA site). The Australian Government has recently declared koalas to be endangered and, for this to mean anything, action needs to be taken at all levels of government to protect koala habitat. Any proposal that involves clearing of habitat is disingenuous if it claims that existing flora and fauna populations will not, or even will not significantly, be affected by this. We know enough about ecosystems and bioregions now to understand why this doesn’t work.
3. Critically endangered Swamp Tea Tree (Malaleuca irbyana) are located in this area - this important plant species is found in only a few places in NSW and Qld and we are lucky enough, for now, to have some in Ipswich, including at the Deebing Heights site. Swamp Tea Tree forests are important for a wide variety of species (including koalas) due to the unique habitat they form. Logan City Council is working with researchers to save Swamp Tea Tree habitats within their city boundaries and to expand important corridors of this species. We need something similar in Ipswich. As mentioned above, with respect to koala habitat, any proposal that involves clearing of habitat that claims existing flora and fauna populations will not be affected or significantly affected are unrealistic and, frankly, unethical.
In conclusion, this land needs to be conserved in consultation with the First Nations people who have been protecting that area for years now.
I, jherome trust that the opposition to this development application will be considered carefully and subsequently rejected, and that the significant reasons that the development application should be rejected and revoked are enough to ensure this. Doing so is ethically just, due the conservation of the sites cultural, historic, and environmental value and importance.
Kind regards
Jherome Gadian
The area is a culturally sensitive and significant area and also contains both critically endangered and endangered species that should be protected. This area has a variety of community engagement aspects that would be lost if it is developed.
Given that the entire council's leadership team who approved this development was later sacked for rampant corruption why has there not been a review of the developments approved under them???
You have no rights to make any decisions on this land. How disrespectful you are when you can see how important it is to these people , just to bulid another childcare centre.
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek ... Take a moment to imagine if people wanted to disrespect your deceased grandparents just to build another childcare on top of their cemetery ?
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
The Deebing Creek Mission site should be handed back to true sovereign owners.
This land belongs to the spirits of the decease for many resons as a peaceful place of remembrance, sanctuary for the local flora and fauna.
Are We honestly treading our Australian Indegenous People past with dignity?
Are We honestly happy to leave our young children on a place with soo much injustice, pain and human bones under their feet?.
Our ancient culture deserves MUCH better than this, a soft scapegoat coward way to hide on a necessity of a child care center for the community.
After a few years ahead that child care will be moved and the atrocious railway and shopping centre will have the green light to kill the rest of vegetation and beauty of that place.
Please don't develop on this land, there human remains from earlier massacres and when it was a concentration camp. The entire site legally and morally belongs to the Yuggera Ugarapul people and the Ipswich council should not be continuing the sale that occurred by previous council members that were sacked due to corruption.
I am writing in response to the public notification of a Permit for Change of Use at 7001 Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights Qld 4306 (Application Number: 17522/2021/PDA), for a Childcare Centre, proposed by Otiosum Pty Ltd.
I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
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I object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site be guaranteed
Kind Regards
Chris Richardson
Please reconsider this zoning done under a fraudulent Mayor. How are those decisions allowed to be still in place?
There has been no comprehensive ground survey (GPR) completed for ancestral remains, endangered koalas live on this site (I've seen them with my own eyes)and protected plants like Melelucca Irbyana (Swamp Tea Trees) are in situ. Please don't destroy these sacred lands.
Please do not develop this sacred land.
I do not see how we, as a country who is moving so close to a referendum with a government who has said they will follow the Uluṟu Statement of the Heart, are still needing to put submissions in to stop the decision to build on Aboriginal burial grounds.
This would NEVER happen to established cemeteries as the outrage would be huge so why is it ok to do this to Aboriginal burial grounds?
It’s double standards and as a country we should be better than that!
These grounds are beautiful and should be protected, not only for their cultural significance but for the animals they home as well as for the fact that every other piece of bush land around here is being knocked down and developed. We need to maintain our bushland and as a resident living close by, it’s such a shame to see it slowly being knocked down.
Please reconsider.
I understand Qld is a growing and thriving and there is a need for more homes. However there is sufficient evidence given below that the land has a significant history and to build on it would be culturally insensitive, morally wrong and would show a complete disregard for the trauma experienced by our first nations people.
Why not choose land that does not have a history of being a mass burial site when it is completely possible to do so? That part I honestly do not understand.
I am a 39 year old white Australian and roughly 10 years ago i learnt the true history of colonisation, mass killings torture, slavery, rape, our stolen generation and more, all of which shook me to the core and even though I did not commit those acts I say sorry anyway because those are experiences no one should ever have to go through. I have spent time working with indigenous many who looked me in the eye and said they still don't know where their family is, who their family is, why they were taken and displaced, what indigenous land they are from, and still they search for their family, their home and their connection. This is not a problem of the past, it is a problem in the now that many first nations people are still dealing with, and if the government approves sacred sites to be built on the problem grows worse because you are ignoring, deafening, blatantly disregarding our first nations people who are still disconnected from their family and associated land. Often these pieces of the puzzle are in the soil, the science of the land, and to move ahead with this project appears as an intentional cover up of that indigenous history.
Sometimes it comes down to doing what's right and anyone who knows of this initiative knows it just isn't right, we can all feel that in our hearts. To all those who hold in their hands the power to stop this development, please think hard of the legacy you want to leave behind, acts which are fuelled by profit or by kindness, do you want to harm or help the land, the trees, the animals, and the first nations people who wish this to remain a sacred site. Who is the leader who will speak up from council and instead create a plan to turn this location into a cultural centre or other indigenous meeting place that honours the history of this land, have any of you even approached the elders to discuss what kind of cultural place could be put here instead.
I realise that would not equal the profit that is gained from developers however, it is more than ok for council and government to constantly host welcome to country ceremonies or other cultural shows, an act which implies you value the indigenous people, yet disregard them completely when it comes to taking actions to preserve their history and culture. Council and government, either you are for or against honouring and preserving this beautiful science proven oldest culture in the world. If you are for our first nations people please act in line with the so called indigenous support that is constantly preached through various campaigns, initiatives, welcome to country, shows etc. When the royal family visits there is no question we appear as a nation who honours Australias most sacred culture, and if only that appreciation could continue on outside of those visits.
I, Lisa Kay, object to this development and urge the Ipswich City Council to reject this application.
First Nations Heritage
This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts. Deebing Creek is the site of an historic mission, home to a known cemetery, sacred sites, a stand of rare melaleuca trees and koala habitat.
A small section of the land is under formal heritage protection. Oral histories record a massacre happening at the mission and communities with connections to the site say that there are likely a number of unmarked graves that extend beyond the official cemetery heritage boundary. Evidence of sites of significance, including possible further burial sites, have not been fully investigated. Many families can trace their family members and ancestors through Deebing Creek Mission.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 mandates a cultural heritage duty of care, stating:
“A person who carries out an activity must take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage (the cultural heritage duty of care).”
Elders and community members have been stressing the importance of this site, including areas outside of the state heritage registered sections, for many decades, and I stress the responsibility of the government to protect this site of important cultural heritage.
Elders associated with the Mission and the broader area have been active in opposing development on this land for many years. The site is currently actively occupied by First Nations peoples and supporters who want this site preserved for its significant cultural and ecological value.
Ecological Impacts
The site is also home to native forest with significant ecological value, including koala habitat. Since the original subdivision approval, new environmental studies have been conducted which show that the area is home to a range of threatened native species, including melaleuca trees.
Objections to Priority Development Areas
Priority Development Areas are inherently undemocratic planning tools, designed by the State Government to force through for-profit developments that local communities rarely want or consent to. They should be abolished.
I object to all further proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA. No applications should be considered or approved. Instead, I request that:
• The Deebing Creek Mission site be handed back to sovereign owners
• Full protection for koalas and koala habitat be guaranteed
• Full protection for other endemic and endangered flora and fauna on the site
Thank you for your time.
First Nations People have never ceded their land, we are still a colonial nation until their rights, culture and history has been properly recognised.
Deebing Creek Justice is a Jarjumba protection site which everyone should value and appreciate - to do so benefits us all, we become richer and more connected.
This site should not be developed for any extraneous reasons that do not protect and augment what is there. No childcare centres, suburban development, main roads, railway lines, etc. This is a sacred area with abundant nature. It is a site with burial mounds containing remains that need to be repatriated. To destroy this site in anyway is abhorrent.
Bring us all together , in harmony and richness.
Disgraceful that this was even considered! It is a sacred indigenous burial site. How can respect be shown to our indigenous community by building anything in the Deebing Creek Mission Site? It should be handed back to its original custodians. Councils need to lead the way and protect sites such as this. How can there be any reconciliation with plans such as this on the drawing board? I oppose this thoughtless plan by Ipswich Council.
Please don't develop this site. It is wrong on so many levels as the other comments state, as well as being completely disrespectful.
No cemeteries either officially recognised or not should ever be displaced, relocated, or vandalised in any way. Just because you call it development doesn't mean it isn't vandalism.
Have some respect and think about what you are putting their families through.
This site is sacred, not only as a place of mourning for those who have been buried around the Deebing Creek Mission; but as a place where this tragic history brings local Indigenous people together in storytelling and solidarity today. The proposal for the redevelopment of this site is yet another disappointing example of local councils continuing the colonial violence of the state. Communities cannot heal when their site of mourning is stolen from them. If the Ipswich City Council believes in any form of Reconciliation, this land should be legally returned to the custodians to whom it has always belonged.
Furthermore, we do not need more developments that tear down the habitats of native animals, and considering that the koala is a threatened species, this is a thoughtless act by the Council.
There are other sites around Ipswich that are significantly more appropriate for a childcare centre. A responsible council will realise that Deebing Creek should not be redeveloped
First Nations People have never ceded their land, we are still a colonial nation until their rights, culture and history has been properly recognised.
Deebing Creek Justice is a Jarjumba protection site which everyone should value and appreciate - to do so benefits us all, we become richer and more connected.
This site should not be developed for any extraneous reasons that do not protect and augment what is there. No childcare centres, suburban development, main roads, railway lines, etc. This is a sacred area with abundant nature. It is a site with burial mounds containing remains that need to be repatriated. To destroy this site in anyway is abhorrent.
Bring us all together , in harmony and richness.
First Nations People have never ceded their land, we are still a colonial nation until their rights, culture and history has been properly recognised.
Deebing Creek Justice is a Jarjumba protection site which everyone should value and appreciate - to do so benefits us all, we become richer and more connected.
This site should not be developed for any extraneous reasons that do not protect and augment what is there. No childcare centres, suburban development, main roads, railway lines, etc. This is a sacred area with abundant nature. It is a site with burial mounds containing remains that need to be repatriated. To destroy this site in anyway is abhorrent.
Bring us all together , in harmony and richness.
F$&@ NO!!!! . There are enough demonic children in this society without sitting a day care on top of a mass graves site. Yeah more possessed children running around Ipswich, that’s what we need… seriously though with all the spare land in this country this makes new housing estates look like acreage living. What You can’t spare 600 sq metres with all the vacant land in this country… to build directly on top of loved ones grave sites they could be someone’s ancestors who don’t even know they’re there. Or worse loved ones who know they’re there and don’t have a big enough voice to stand up against this. Don’t disrespect the dead or their families. Go build a day care centre over your own relatives graves. Insensitive pricks.
I strongly oppose developing this site.
It is a site of significant importance for our First Nation's people and Traditional Land Owners and to many others who have taken the time to learn about what has taken place here. It is a site that should be protected not only for this reason but for many others. It is a koala corridor, there is rare melaleuca growing in abundance, it provides a safe space for First Nations People to practice corobory and ceremony and come together and a safe space for others to go and learn about about Deebing Creeks history and the impact it has had past, present and future generations. Learn about it, speak to the people there, embrace it as part of Ipswich.
I am strongly opposed to this application!
The irony of building a childcare centre over sacred indigenous land that has been protected and left untouched for many years…What is the real message your sending to our future children about how we continue to protect the land we have already stolen??
This land should not be in the hands of the Ipswich council but instead be led by the people who represent the original custodians, to whom it has always belonged.
Please show respect to our First Nations people and leave this site as it is. This site sits on the lands of the Yuggera Ugarapul people and any development on it has significant heritage impacts.
The world is changing and we are moving into a time where First Nation people are starting to get some respect as the original custodians who only used the land for what they needed & never overused or damaged the land. Missions were a forced removal of people from their land and sometimes family. The generational trauma from this attempt to erase cultural identity continues to this day. As we try to move forward please do not take a step backwards by showing disrespect to this community by disrupting the ancestors in the spirit world.
This country is of significant cultural importance to me personally and my family, my Grandfather was born on this mission in the 30’s. Developing on this land would be so insensitive and disrespectful. We don’t have many untouched sites so we need to keep them that way.
Developing on this site would be culturally inappropriate towards my culture and the past and present and future generations.
Please don’t. There’s too many koalas there. Theres a grave site there for crying out loud. Please; have empathy for the community. Develop on the land that you’ve already cleared.
I oppose the redevelopment going ahead. I am 70+, white, female, born and grew up in Ipswich as did my father, Claude Wallace, (born 1919) and his family. My childhood was spent around this area.
As a five year old attending school I was witness to the unnecessary suffering of these people who are now asserting themselves to stand up for what is right.
Corporate greed is not right.
White mens’ arrogance is not right.
Remaining silent when witnessing wrong conduct is not right.
Re-fashioning of the truth to win at any cost is not right.
Violence is not right.
“Might is right” is not right.
Because of my past history of this area, I have a very strong sense that all that these people are saying will be correct, and now we need understanding and negotiation with a WIN-WIN outcome firmly in mind.
Solution - 🤷♀️
Well, the past is the past, it lives on as history and that’s an important thing. Big mistakes get made but there is no need to perpetuate them. Moving forward, the future belongs to all of us and everyone needs to be acknowledged and treated with the utmost respect.
Can this area be both preserved and developed sensitively incorporating the tragic past, plus the knowledge our indigenous owners will have to share?
Can we develop in a way that draws attention to what we do in Ipswich that involves inclusion and moving forward.
It involves a VISION for the future and Ipswich COULD be a leading city for what gets done here. That would be great to put Ipswich back on the map again given its disgraceful past of greed and corruption. Enough said.
WE can do this, and yes, it’s a challenge that involves sensitivity but WE are up to it in 2022, surely.
As a taxpayer in Queensland, I strongly oppose this development. I request that you immediately reject the application.
Aboriginal Elders have long emphasised the cultural importance of this site which belongs to Yuggera Ugarapul people. A small section is under formal heritage protection. Queensland families can trace their family members through Deebing Creek Mission. The proposed development contravenes the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 requiring authorities ensure that activities do not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage. Local governments have a responsibility to protect sites of important cultural heritage.
Further, we are in the middle of a climate crisis. This site has significant ecological value and koala habitat and is home to a range of threatened native species including melaleuca trees.
So I strongly object to all proposals within the Ripley Valley PDA: no applications should be considered or approved. This local Aboriginal community is owed:
1. Deebing Creek Mission site handed back to Traditional Owners
2. Full protection for koala habitat
3. Full protection for other endangered flora and fauna on the site.
I look forward to hearing from you about your action on this matter, and the outcomes.
Like no way that is terrible and disgusting how would you like it if someone decided to put some building over your family’s grave years down the track .
Obviously their is no respect and money is more of a high agenda
I strongly oppose of this development and alarmed this proposal has not consideted the history of the area. I seek an immediately rejection of the application and request a formal heritage protection be placed through the remaining of Deebing Creek Mission. This would align with the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 requiring authorities ensure that activities do not harm Aboriginal cultural heritage further have this piece be where culture can practice even if this means protecting the area of all costs.
Thank you for taking in my public request.
Please leave Deebing Creek Mission alone. Researching my ancestor Benjamin Cribb, (3xgrandfather) led me to finding out about this sacred land and its history. How utterly dismaying to find out that there is an intention for development! Horrific! Developing over graves is very disturbing indeed. This is not right. This is the land of the Traditonal Owners and it is NOT for the goverment to decide what happens to it. The Koalas and other native wildlife need to be protected too. Instead, give this land back to the Yuggera Ugarapul people. They are the rightful owners and custodians. How are we to heal as a country when uncaring and disrespectful acts like this happen!
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