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This timeline traces the long and uneven journey of Indigenous suffrage in Queensland. It highlights key moments of exclusion, resistance and hard-won change.

Using a First Nations writing style guide helps ensure respectful, accurate, and culturally appropriate language.

Researched and written by historian Ray Kerkhove, PhD, updated July 2024. This work is a preliminary summary of places associated with conflicts involving wounding or deaths
of the invaded and the invaders during the Frontier Wars in the region now known as the Sunshine Coast and Noosa Shires.

Published by the Sunshine Coast Reconciliation Group Incorporated (SCRGI)

Being a genuine ally is not about charity or generosity – it’s about being aware of inequality and racism, calling it out, and standing shoulder to shoulder with those who are affected.
As Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman, academic, writer and a public health consultant, says:

“We need good allies. We are only three per cent of the Australian population. We can’t raise the profile of issues affecting us without our allies.”

Dr Ray Kerkhove researched Sunshine Coast First Nations place names and their meaning to produce a map and list that reflect historical records and archival sources. Note: the map will be continuously updated based on further consultation with Kabi Kabi and Jinibara traditional custodians. There are variations to the English spelling as words are based

We the First Nations Advisory Group (FNAG) to the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in good faith make this public statement to inform our communities that we have been advised by the QPS that we cease to exist as of 29th February 2024. We actively sort to collaboratively make this announcement however have been met with

Read the proposals for an Indigenous Voice that would provide a way for Indigenous Australians to provide advice and input on matters that are important to improve their lives.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart (Uluru Statement) represents a historic consensus of Indigenous leaders in seeking constitutional change to recognise First Australians through a Voice to Parliament. Following the First Nations National Constitutional Convention that brought together 250 Indigenous representatives from across the country, the Uluru Statement was issued on the 26th of May 2017. 

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people from First Nations Australians. It asks Australians to walk together to build a better future by establishing a First Nations Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution, and the establishment of a Makarrata Commission for the purpose of treaty making and truth-telling.

Reconciliation Queensland’s vision is for an equitable and informed Queensland, which recognises a shared past and respects Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first Australians.