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Descendants of Stolen Generations are leading a push to restore one of New South Wales' most significant sites, the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. The home operated between 1912 and 1969, training hundreds of young Aboriginal girls forcibly removed from their families to be domestic servants. Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/cootamundra-girls-home-res...

The Bloomfield River is one of striking beauty. Numerous rainforest creeks, including the mighty Roaring Meg Creek merge in the hills and cascade over the rock formation to form at the base of the beautiful Bloomfield River. This system is so named after Lt Blomfield of the 5th Regiment by Phillip Parker King whilst charting the inside passage of the Great Barrier Reef in 1817-18. Today, depending on the season, you might find it a raging torrent carrying monsoonal rainfall down from the mountains and out to sea, or a peaceful river that rises and falls with the turning tides. The river has special significance to the original peoples of this area, the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people, who still use the area for hunting, fishing and collecting. It passes over an old crossing and then under the new bridge at the local Aboriginal community of Wujal Wujal, which means ‘many falls’. Within the river is an island, which in the early 1900s was used as home base in the dry season for locals and others working on the boats in the pearling and trochus shell industries. Further downstream, Granite Creek runs in to increase the flow, adding more seeds and other debris from the rainforest. Source: www.bloomfieldescape.com.au/nature/bloomfield-river

Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. It is the northernmost and largest of 22 islands that form the Wellesley Islands group. The largest town, Gununa, is in the southwestern part of the island. The Lardil people are the traditional owners of the island, but there are also Kaiadilt people, who were relocated from nearby Bentinck Island, as well as people of other nations on the island. The Mornington Island Mission operated from 1914 until 1978 when it was taken over by the Queensland Government, which had proclaimed the islands an Aboriginal reserve in 1905. The Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation owns and manages an art center, MIArt, and a dance troupe, the Mornington Island Dancers. There is also a significant history of performance on the island, and the Mornington Island Dancers was one of the earliest established Aboriginal performing arts groups in Australia.[23] They performed publicly in Cairns in August 1964,[27] and again in 1973 at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Opera House. Since 2009 and as of 2022 the dancers operate as a business unit of MGAC called MIDance.[23] The dancers celebrate Lardil culture through traditional dance and song. They have toured overseas many times, including in Italy, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Sweden.[2 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Island

Daintree waterfalls are often places you can admire but not swim, due to the presence of crocodiles, but that is not the case at Cassowary Falls. Located in the Mossman Gorge section of the Daintree National Park, a part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Cassowary Falls is a secluded waterfall that tumbles into a cool, pool of pristine freshwater. A place of peace, beauty and serenity. A place to pause and admire the majesty of nature, amongst a rainforest landscape which has existed here since the time of dinosaurs. Rainforest which has been internationally recognised for its intrinsic value as a place of natural beauty, home to ancient plants and animals found nowhere else on earth. The Gateway to the Cassowary Falls property is a vital habitat, alive with creatures great and small. Bordering the Daintree Rainforest, many native animals are regularly seen here including Eastern Water Dragons, the Boyd’s Forest Dragon, Ulyssess Butterfly, Cairns Birdwing Butterfly and the creature from which the name derives, the majestic Southern Cassowary. This is also a bird-watchers paradise and the Cassowary is just the beginning; the elusive Red-Bellied Pitta is highly sought after by birdwatchers and migrates here every December. Victoria Riflebirds add their loud calls to the rainforest soundtrack, joined by numerous species of Parrots, King-fishers and much more. Source: www.cassowaryfalls.com.au/the-falls