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From pre-Contact times until at least the 1860s, Northside Brisbane’s most important Aboriginal Tournament Ground, where tribes met to hold duels and battles after Bora ceremonies. Since 1972, when Black Panthers marched from Musgrave Park to this site, Roma Street has also been the main forum for Aboriginal political protests and political speeches.
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Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 99-101.
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QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488