GIICA want to fence off most of #Barrambin / #VictoriaPark this Monday 1st of June - in less than 3 days!
This is 6 years before the games, without having released a construction plan for the public to review.
That would require kicking out the First Nations camps on this culturally and historically significant site – during National Reconciliation Week.
Our green lungs are being sold off.
See below what we can do.
Please boost 🔁
#OlympicGames #BNE #Meanjin #Magandjin #Brisbane #SEQ
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First thing is signing the community submission that supports the Section 10 applicants - that's the First Nations Elders seeking protection of Barrambin under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act, to be reviewed at the federal level.
It only take a few seconds to sign, and you don't have to be a local.
This is closing today, 29th of May, 5 pm AEST, so get it done!
https://www.savevictoriapark.com/submission
Unbelievable that GIICA is going ahead without it reviewed.
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On the same website, you can still sign the petition against a stadium in the middle of our biggest inner-city park:
https://www.savevictoriapark.com/petition
and donate to the legal fund:
https://www.savevictoriapark.com/donate
Donating via Friends of the Earth makes your donation tax-deductible.
The same website has lots of resources to learn more about why constructing a stadium there is a terrible idea, but here's a shortlist of 10 reasons:
https://www.savevictoriapark.com/why-a-stadium-in-victoria-park-doesnt-make-sense
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The Goori Camp Embassy is on site.
Between today and the 2nd of June, they call on everyone to "Fill the Park and Defend Living Heritage" by joining them, hanging out, and increasing the size of the camp.
As well as physically joining, you can learn more and donate to their fund here: https://chuffed.org/project/177541-goori-camp-embassy
Here is some coverage: https://nit.com.au/19-05-2026/24364/goori-camp-embassy-calls-on-community-to-help-defend-barrambin
If you're on Insta, follow them: https://www.instagram.com/gooricampembassy/
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#OlympicGames #BNE #Meanjin #Magandjin #Brisbane #SEQ #decolonisation
Join the protest on Sunday 31st of May, 12 pm, outside the Herston Road entrance to the park. Bring you signs, your voices, your family, your music.
That will be the last day GIICA will let us use these 32 hectares of green space, and sit under centuries-old gum trees animals call home before they cut them down.
https://www.savevictoriapark.com/trees
(edit: sorry, my map had the wrong area, missed a 0 in my division 😅. Fixed now.)
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Last week, I organised a Bioblitz to kick off collecting as many #iNaturalist observations as possible before they kick us out.
The collection continues, so I encourage locals to go enjoy the park while they can while contributing to iNat so we can have a better baseline of what #biodiversity exists and is at risk of being lost.
Here's my write-up about the event: https://stragu.codeberg.page/posts/2026-05-27_barrambin-biodiversity/
And instructions to take part: https://stragu.codeberg.page/posts/2026-05-20_barrambin-bioblitz/
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In 24 hours, we managed to upload 232 observations.
One week later, we've added 45 species to the list. There are now 348 taxa recorded at #Barrambin :
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/barrambin-victoria-park
But there's lots more to explore and record, so if you're a local, please have a wander and contribute your snaps to the database! Every #iNaturalist observation that falls in that area makes it into the list automatically.
A stadium doesn't belong here.
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Recording the biodiversity of Barrambin / Victoria Park. Any observation made in Barrambin / Victoria Park is included in this project. (No need to join the project, or manually add the observations to it.) GIICA plans to fence off most of Barrambin / Victoria park on the 1st of June 2026 in preparation for building a stadium in the middle of what was promised to remain the biggest inner-city park in Meanjin / Brisbane. With this project, we can create a snapshot of the park's biodiversity before (and if) it is irreversibly impacted by large-scale, multi-year construction works. This project includes observations from two iNaturalist "places": - the first version of the park extent: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/victoria-park-barrambin-brisbane-australia - another park extent created for this project, based on the OpenStreetMap extent, which includes the section along Victoria Park Road, under the QUT campus. It has a 50 m buffer added to catch observations at the margins of th...
Even if you're not local, you can contribute by identifying observations to refine the data:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=288305
Eventually, observations that reach a consensus end up in other databases, like the Atlas of Living Australia.
This is a report from the ALA for the same area. It lists 21 "threatened species".
https://archive.org/download/ALA_area_report_Barrambin_2026-05-28/areaReport1779975680564.pdf
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#conservation #biodiversity #iNaturalist #Barrambin #VictoriaPark
URGENT, locals of #BNE #Meanjin #Magandjin
I just saw there's police trying to remove the First Nations camps at #Barrambin right now.
Join them if you can.
Follow updates here: https://www.facebook.com/people/Save-Vic-Park-Barrambin-Action-Hub/61567601505958/
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There's council and police people on site. I heard some people have already been taken into custody by the police.
Come and stand with First Nations people.
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I count at least 30 cops surrounding the embassy and camp. We're bunched up in the middle.
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Happy #olympicGames everyone. It's 2026 and we're still kicking First Nations people off their land. History repeating to build a stadium we don't need. For a two-week event in 2032.
Fuck the Olympic Games, fuck Queensland Police, fuck the Queensland Government, fuck BCC and fuck GIICA.
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#racism #colonialism #australia #meanjin #magandjin #brisbane #bne #qld #queensland #barrambin
Just counted more than 55 cops surrounding the tent embassy. Lots of traditional owners and allies around but we need more and we need sustained presence throughout the weekend too, if you're able to join or even drop off some supplies.
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https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-27.452692&mlon=153.021795#map=18/-27.452692/153.021795
This is a good video for a bit of background on the flip-flopping, the ballooning of costs, and the insults hurled by the government at campaigners concerned about First Nations peoples' rights and the environmental damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzXJ5qYJD4
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#OlympicGames #Meanjin #Magandjin #Brisbane #BNE #Barrambin #VictoriaPark
Another thing you can do is write to your MP about the ridiculous cost of this stadium. This website makes it super easy to pick the topic you want to focus on and find your MP:
https://www.qldresponsiblegov.org/
(And you can sign their petition too.)
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Another way #OpenStreetMap contributors can help this weekend is by mapping on site the precise position of individual notable trees in the area planned to be fenced.
If the tree has a metal tag, add the number to the "ref" key so we can match them to databases like this one: https://www.savevictoriapark.com/trees
(Please no armchair mapping from imagery, this needs current, up to date data.)
See the area: https://mastodon.indie.host/@stragu/116655301996057796
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#OpenStreetMap #openData #GIS #Barrambin #Meanjin #Magandjin #BNE
The article shows the potential for corruption this state government is facilitating:
"His government introduced legislation exempting all 17 Queensland Olympic venues from 15 state planning, environmental and heritage laws [...]. The announcement came in the same month that the government also lifted a ban that previously blocked property developers from making political donations."
This is the Crisafulli / Bleije gov for ya.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-30/ioc-petition-brisbane-olympics-2032-stadium-protest/106733114
Polly Kraisus
