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Musgrave Park is home to the Jagera Arts Centre (formerly the lawn bowls clubhouse) and is one of the few remaining green spaces left in
Brisbane's inner city. On 24 August 1998, after twenty years of legal struggles with the Queensland state government, the Musgrave Park Aboriginal Corporation
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on portions of the park. The park holds special significance to the local indigenous population due to a past restriction barring the
Aboriginal people from crossing the park and entering the city of Brisbane. Notably, being the site of a buried
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An effort to collect documents related to the
Aboriginal historical links to the park was spearheaded by Bob Weatherall in 1983. In 1985, the Musgrave Park Report was released, identifying Indigenous links to the area. In 1998, the
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Musgrave Park is a remnant of the former
Kurilpa (South Brisbane) Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from "Highgate Hill and on (to) the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya (
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was marked by a candlelight vigil in
Musgrave Park on 3 June 2020, with 432 candles lit for each of the Aboriginal deaths in custody since the 1991 end of the
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allocated part of the park for the establishment of an
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