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Mooloolah Fringe Camp

Placename
Mooloolah
Layer
Miscellaneous Places of Interest
Type
Site
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Details

Latitude
-26.759
Longitude
152.961
Start Date
1920
End Date
1930
State
QLD

Description

An Aboriginal fringe camp existed at least some time in the 1930s, near this railway overpass at Mooloolah. According to Brian Pascoe, his mother Vera Pascoe (nee Irvine) would always stop and talk to the people there on her way home when she was a girl. Having some unknown Aboriginal background it's possible she was related to them. At the time, mixed race children put on a white path, and others admitted to white society (eg: with 'dog tags'), were not meant to associate with Aboriginal people, and could be punished for doing so. None the less, stories are common of conversations 'over the fence'. Vera was the daughter of Mr Irvine, a railway fettler who built and maintained the north coast line, and so, living in tents along the way likely to have encountered fringe settlements.

Sources

ID
ta530
Source
Oral history - Brian Pascoe