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Welcome to the Djabugay community website
From time immemorial the Djabugay people (also known as Tjapukai) lived in the rainforests behind Cairns in Tropical Far North Queensland.

Today, 140 years after the coming of the white man, the Djabugay are a remnant community – their lands taken away from them, their Storywaters partially lost. But they are a community determined to make their way in a transformed world, struggling against the odds.

This website aims to give the reader a overview of past and present activities of the Djabugay People with the aim to regain control over their heritage: land, language and beliefs.
 
  • Watch Wettenhal

    Steve Wettenhall, the re-elected member for Barron River, in his column Wettenhall Watch in the Kuranda Paper of April 2009, wrote that he will work hard to start renewed negotiations with the Mona Mona descendants in regards to the future of the former mission site. In December last year, the Bligh Government decided that the majority of the 1600 ha of the former mission site would was to made National Park; a small area of 100 ha was designated to be become an Indigenous Cultural Heritage site and all residents would be required to leave the area.

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