Peter RileyJul 23, 2024

Everything is water book about walking the River by Simon Cleary interviewed.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/river-walk-brisbane-simon-cleary/104131956

#Meanjin: Refers to the area around what is now known as the city of “Brisbane” It is the #Turrbal word for the area.

#maiwar Original name for the “Brisbane River” used by the #Yugera people, who also had a presence in the region.

#Toowong: this name was used for a section of the river too.

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-brown-snake-the-brisbane-river-over-the-decades-queensland-university-technology/NwWxhV1002pBnA?

#FirstNations

A river walk - ABC listen

A month-long walk from the source of the Brisbane River, eastward to Moreton Bay, leads writer and barrister Simon Cleary to new appreciations of what the river means to people,  and how it changes along its course.  Guest: Simon Cleary, author of ‘Everything is water’, a non-fiction account of walking the length of the Brisbane River. Published by UQP 

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Michael RyanJul 13, 2023

195 years ago, Allan Cunningham collected the type specimen for Acacia fimbriata from a Brisbane/Maiwar river bank. Thus it got its common name the Brisbane golden wattle. Here it is growing in a dry Eucalyptus woodland community on a nutrient-poor, sandy-soil ridge in the #SevenHillsBushlandReserve. The channeling habit which directs rainwater to its roots is obvious. And what a welcome sight is the spectacular inflorescence in the middle of winter!

#Brisbane #Meanjin #Maiwar #flora #history

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#Maiwar #McCoy #Meanjin #Sarek #Spock #Vulcan

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The old, flower-bedecked pergola had run along the south bank of the #Maiwar for more than two hundred years. When #StarfleetMedical had redeveloped the old Children’s Health precinct at the eastern end, they’d toyed with the idea of extending the Grand Arbour further, adding a little greenery to the unshakable grey human-inflicted dreariness of #Meanjin’s metropolitan core. The boffins in the city cabinet had vetoed it. All good things, they said, must come to an end – in this case, a physical one.