Aborigines at Toogoolawah 1892

1880 — Bunya feasts cease after traditional pathways are blocked by settlement and timber loggers begin cutting down the giant bunya pine trees.
Until the 1880s, people came to the mountains every three years, when the bunya crop was heavy, to meet and to feast. They came from as far away as Bundaberg in the north and from Murwiiumbah in the south.

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