Stories of the Suburbs: the Origins of Richlands 'Servicetown'/ Inala Area on Brisbane's Western Fringe
(2006) Stories of the Suburbs: the Origins of Richlands 'Servicetown'/ Inala Area on Brisbane's Western Fringe. In Proceedings Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS), QUT Carseldine.
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Abstract
This paper is based on my research for an oral history project for Brisbane City Council and Inala Arts Inc. in 2000/2001. Rather than collecting stories for this project myself, my task was to facilitate a series of three workshops to teach the local people how to conduct and collect their own oral histories. But I found the history intriguing. Inala has interesting origins as a semi-rural, industrial area which became a post-World War II soldier settlement. Its proximity to the Wacol Immigration Centre endowed it with a multicultural flavour from the 1950s as many immigrant families eventually settled at Inala. The Queensland government and locals developed an innovative solution to the problem of meeting the demand for housing by pairing up with the local industry giant, Pioneer Concrete, to produce prefabricated concrete houses. The history also serves to mark the significance of common place and street names in the current Inala/Darra/ Mt Ommaney suburban precinct. [I was contracted not to publish anything independently for 2 years but that period has since elapsed.]
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Unpublished |
| Keywords: | history, settlement, government, industry, Inala |
| Subjects: | 420000 Language and Culture > 420300 Cultural Studies |
| ID Code: | 4995 |
| Deposited By: | Quanchi, Max |
| Deposited On: | 14 September 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.socialchange.qut.edu.au/conferences/pastconfs/aaps/index.jsp |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 Sue Kaeys |