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Boab Prison Trees - Fact or Fiction?
'A ‘BOOB’ IN A BAOB TREE.Away up in Western Australia's wild and woolly nor-west some distance out of Wyndham there's a boob in a baob tree which is surely the queerest gaol in the world! It was used...
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A Boggo Road Great: John Banks, 1939-2014
John at work, 1980s (BRGHS).Last month we said goodbye to the late John Banks, the founding president of the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society. He was a man described by his former workmates as one of...
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Plans to Erect Gallows in Queensland's Supreme Court Shelved
A museum exhibition about the end of hanging in Queensland opened in June this year at the new Supreme Court buildings on George Street, Brisbane. Capital punishment was abolished here back in 1922,...
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A Better Future for Boggo Road: One Step Closer?
A mock-up of the proposed public space in front of the cellblocks. Looks good to me.(Image from this article)Public Works and Leighton Properties released a statement today about the future of Boggo...
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The Revolution in Thinking About Boggo Road
Last week saw the announcement of the Leighton Properties proposal for the future of Boggo Road. The single most important thing to emerge from these plans is the revolutionary transformation of much...
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Loaves, Fishes, &'Jobs, Jobs, Jobs': How to really create jobs at Boggo Road
Theredevelopment proposalsfor Boggo Road were recently made public and I have already discussed the radical concept ofopening up the prison as public space, but there are of course other aspects to...
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Destroy All Your Books... Or Else: The attack on a Queensland historical...
Imagine the volunteers in a respected History group receiving a legal letter from a business owner demanding that they either destroy all their stock of self-published history books, or hand themover...
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Sunday Will Never Be the Same at Boggo Road
I have longed argued that Boggo Road should become a community and cultural hub. I also suspect this was the intention of the developers from the get-go, and their recently-released visionfor the place...
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Leaving Home
The Boggo Blog has been going for over four years now and has just reached 150 published articles, which is a good time to make a few overdue changes, especially as my History work is about to take me...
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The Historical Suffering of the Mentally-Ill is Not a Sideshow Alley Freakshow
The other day I was in the process of transferring a free local newspaper from the footpath to the guinea pig hutch when a ‘Haunted House Security Risk’ headline caught my eye. The article was about...
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140kph Winds vs the South Brisbane Cemetery
South Brisbane Cemetery, November 2014 (T.Olivieri)Brisbane was hit by a massive storm last Thursday afternoon, with 140kph winds and huge hailstones causing widespread damage, including smashed...
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The Longest Gallows Speech in Queensland History
George David Silva, 1912(Qld State Archives)The horrific events in Cairns today instantly brought to mind a similar scene from Mackay just over a hundred years ago. I have previously referred to the...
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Is There Hope for Boggo Road in 2015? We Shall See.
By the end of 2015 it will be ten years since the Boggo Road Gaol Museum was temporarily closed to allow for the excavation for the nearby Busway tunnel and the construction of the Ecoscience Precinct....
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Campbell Newman's Boggo Road Record
The following is taken from an editorial in the latest 'Boggo Road Bugle' newsletter of the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society. The BRGHS sets out to be an apolitical organisation, especially as our...
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Tom Uren and Boggo Road
The following article about Tom Uren (former deputy leader of the Labor Party) was written by Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society president Stephen M Gage for the latest 'Boggo Road Bugle' newsletter of...
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Screw!
(BRGHS)SCREW. Apart from other well-known meanings, it’s a slang word for ‘prison officer’ that’s been around a long time and - to those outside the job - would seem like it’s meant as an insult....
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Boggo Road to Make Way for Shops?
“Should Boggo Road Gaol make way for shops? The state government has signed off on the plan - which includes knocking down parts of the jail for retail and dining spaces.”So began a post on the...
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BRGHS statement on the current Boggo Road planning situation
The following is a statement from the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society (Inc.) management committee on the subject of the current Boggo Road proposals.29 March 2015The current Boggo planning...
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Check the Facts & Make Up Your Own Mind About Plans For Boggo
I very recently linked an official statementon this page from the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society regarding the current planning situation for Boggo. As the secretary of the BRGHS, I was one of...
View ArticleKnow Your Colonial Gaol History #13: The first Boggo Road prison, 1883
This article can now be viewed via this link at the new 'Life & Death in the Sunshine State' website.
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