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The land council has plans to build a cultural learning centre at Broadie Drive.
This is opposite the botanic gardens in the centre of Coffs.
The centre will include a keeping place for the storage of artefacts and important information.
A meeting room for the elders and a conference room for functions and lessons.
It is intended the Land Council offices will relocate to the centre. The centre will be open to both the
Aboriginal and wider community. With displays of Aboriginal art and craft. Knowledge sharing lessons and
cultural exchanges.
A great feature of the centre will include a bush tucker track. Here we can give guided tours of the
native flora and its significance to the Aboriginal community.
Ferguson Cottage
The Land Council is trying to get a lease over this cottage, which is located behind the fishing club on the jetty headland.
Granny Ferguson was a matriarch in the Aboriginal community.
From the cottage she would act as a go between the white community and Aboriginal, during highly political times
of the 50s and 60s. She dealt with police and welfare issues.
At times she would feed and house up to 18 people in the little two-room cottage.
It is important to the Aboriginal community that the Ferguson family is let to stay on in the cottage,
and a memorial built outside the cottage in honour of Granny Ferguson.
The Jetty Foreshore
The foreshore area and Corrumbirra Pt holds important cultural and spiritual importance to the Aboriginal community.
Aboriginal people are still living in the area in well below average living conditions. They choose to do this,
as they will not give up their traditional homeland.
The Land Council has plans to set up a meeting place on the foreshore where Happy Valley is presently located.
We could then hold gatherings and guided tours of the foreshore area.
The bureaucracy surrounding the jetty area is very complex and Aboriginal issues seem to be put on the back burner.
We seek an outcome soon.
Development
The Land Council is looking to develop some of our many parcels of land. Included in this are talks to convert
Wongala Estate into a first class retirement village. This may well go hand in hand with developing Broadie Drive
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