The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority is committed to acknowledging and honouring the cultural heritage of our project alignment.
Cross River Rail in collaboration with Bilbie Labs, is helping bring to life Virtual Songlines, a virtual world where we can pay respect to the stories, traditions and customs of Brisbane’s Traditional Owners.
This digital world allows us to visit our station locations as they were in 1819, exploring the geology, environment, stories and traditions.
Woola means talk; Wooloon means fight talk; Gabba means place (Woolloongabba). Many cultural activities, celebrations, ceremonies, tournaments, fight talk and lore making happened here.
This is our biggest tournament site, on this side of Maiwar. It is also a place for corroboree – a lore place for settling wrongs. Many inter-tribal meetings took place amongst the banksia and wattle shrubland. Nearby is a bora, where our young people (kippas) are inducted into adulthood.
You can use either your mouse on a computer or your fingers on a phone or tablet to explore the scene in the video.