Yunguba, which lies directly underneath the Brisbane's Storey Bridge on Kangaroo Point. It was built in 1877 as an immigrant hostel. It is one of the very few publicly owned open spaces. Nearly all the surrounding land in Kangaroo Point, including the neighbouring land formerly owned by Evans Deakin shipyards, has been turned into a concrete jungle of high rise residences.
Save Yungaba
Virtual inaugural meeting of Immigrant's Memorial Association
The Immigrants’ Memorial Association is having a virtual inaugural meeting on Sunday 19th October from 2pm-4pm Brisbane Time.
The Immigrants' memorial association is currently fighting to save the historic Yungaba hostel from being turned into a private gated community by the Singapore-based Australand property development company.
A tale of two buildings ... Lucas fails Queenslanders
The Queensland Government has threatened to fine the owners of the heritage listed "Keating House" $75,000 for allowing it to fall into disrepair, yet when large parts of historic Yungaba House, the responsibility of the Queensland Government itself, have been condemned as unsafe due to its own negligience, the problem was 'solved' by selling it off to a Singapore-based developer to be turned into a gated community, against heated community objections.
What you can do: attend Virtual Inaugural meeting of Immigrants' Memorial Association to be held 19 Oct 08.
What has been done: Protest at Community Cabinet at 12:45PM on Sunday 14 Sep at Belmont State School, Old Cleveland Road, Carindale to protest Minister Paul Lucas's decision to disallow the appeal.
Your urgent help needed to save historic Yungaba
Last week BCC posted the long-anticipated negotiated development approval on their website - it will see the guts ripped out of Yungaba, the last remaining intact 19th century immigration depot left in Australia, leaving only a shell for the public to view from outside a gated community. Yungaba Action Group needs your help to launch a legal fight against the development approval - no amount is too small to give!
Yungaba Action Group continues fight to save historic hostel
The Yungaba Action Group is resisting the plans by the Queensland Government and the Brisbane CIty Council to allow to the historic Yungaba migrant hostel to be turned by the Singapore owned Australand into a private gated residential complex. (Originally published on this site on 15 Jun 08.)
Coming up: Fund-raising river cruise stopping at Yungaba on August 23rd.
What you can do: Nominate Yungaba as a site worth retaining.