Toowoomba First Nations Allies

Listening – Learning – Connecting

Category: Place

  • Nyalar Mirungan-ah

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    Nyalar Mirungan-ah Nature Refuge is in the western foothills of the Dividing Range near Cunningham’s Gap, Qld. We have identified over 350 species of Australian plants, a large number of which were used by the First Australians for food, medicine, pleasure, art, tools and shelter.

  • Bunya Mountains

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    Aboriginal people of the Bunya Mountains and Blackall Ranges (nearer the coast) invited people from as far south as the Clarence River in northern New South Wales, west to the Maranoa River and east to Wide Bay to join the gatherings. For local and visiting groups, the bunya festivals were times for ceremonies, law-making and resolving…

  • Amaroo Environmental Education Centre

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    Amaroo Environmental Education Centre (EEC) is a day visit centre situated in the Darling Downs and South West Region of the Department of Education. The Centre is located on the site of the old Kleinton State School, approximately 22km north of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

  • Ration shed museum

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    The Ration Shed Museum is located in the Cherbourg Historical, Cultural and Community Precinct. Here, you will have the opportunity to see and experience the past and present of a largest Aboriginal community in South East Queensland.

  • Cobb&Co museum

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    Cobb&Co museum in Toowoomba is one of the public museums within the Queensland Museum network. Queensland Museum delivers a range of exhibitions relevant to First Nations and some of these can be seen at Cobb&Co museum.

  • Gumbi Gumbi Gardens

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    The Gardens were designed in close partnership with respected Historical Elders from Toowoomba and Elders of the Jarowair people.  Featuring more than 100 plant species, the Garden displays an extensive array of Indigenous flora used by the local Aboriginal communities for a range of purposes, including food and medicine.

  • Gummingurru

    Gummingurru

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    Gummingurru is a significant male initiation site a few kilometres north of Toowoomba, between Gowrie Junction and Meringdan. It is open to all people interested in Aboriginal culture and heritage.