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GANA (hear, think, understand) 2024 "A Changing Island - people, housing, equality and employment"

Updated: Dec 5

North Stradbroke Island on Minjerribah is holding a GANA (hear, think, understand) event titled "A Changing Island - people, housing , equality and employment".


-The event is at the museum on Saturday 7 December with the 10.00am morning tea for a 10.30am start.

-The price of entry is a $5.00 donation.


ALL WELCOME


The GANA event includes a presentation by:

-Howard Guille (Museum Secretary, researcher and writer) from a major new analysis of the demography and economy of Minjerribah and its social impacts.

-Col Battersby (Chair of the Straddie Chamber of Commerce). Col holds a BA in Leisure and Tourism Studies, focusing on the commodification of leisure experiences, and application of the Triple Bottom Line to planning and destination planning approaches.

-Pekeri Ruska (PhD Candidate with the University of Queensland’s T.C. Deirne School of Law and Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity with the University of Melbourne). Her career is centred on advancing social justice for First Nations Peoples.


Major changes have occurred on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island in the last two decades most especially the recognition of the native title of the Quandamooka people and the cessation of around 70 years of mineral sand mining.


These are the contexts, but not necessarily the causes of very significant shifts in population, housing and society. They include:


-The Aboriginal population of the Island increased until 2011 but has fallen since.

-The non-Aboriginal population fell to 2011 and since then has increased.

-Relatively large numbers of older Non-Aboriginal people moving to the Island.

-An "ageing" Island population - both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal.

-Social and economic inequalities are large and widening.

-Increasing number and proportion of residential dwellings being used as second 'holiday homes' and/or short-term holiday rentals.

-Property values and prices at Mooloomba are the highest of any place in Redland City.


The GANA event will discuss the Changing Island which is now marked by a 'holiday economy' of holiday homes, short term rentals, property speculation and retirement. There are evident signs of gentrification and widespread perceptions of "over tourism". One of the big questions is what is the best sort of economy and society to help everyone on the Island to Walk Together?

Cylinder Beach c.1970s

Photo by Lindsay Duncan

Courtesy of Jean Walton





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