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Yarrabah Main language group: Gungganyji Yarrabah Aboriginal community is located approximately 53 kilometres by road, east of Cairns around Trinity Inlet. The community has a population of about 2100. It was established as an Aboriginal reserve and Church of England mission at Cape Grafton in 1892. Many ‘mixed-race’ children from Indigenous families thoughout Cape York and western Queensland were taken by police and brought to live in Yarrabah. Language names were replaced by ‘Christian names’, the people were discouraged from speaking their own languages and children lived in dormitories, separated from the adults. In 1957 the people of Yarrabah staged a strike in protest against living and working conditions, and the leaders of the strike were expelled from the mission. In 1962 Anglican Church authorities relinquished control of the mission to the Department of Native Affairs. The Department closed the mission out-stations and moved all the people to the main Yarrabah settlement. In 1965 an advisory Aboriginal community council was established; however, it was not until 1986 that the council received its Deed of Grant in Trust land tenure status, making the Yarrabah Community Council self-governing.
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