The German-Queenslanders – A Celebration The Cultural Contribution Since the 1850s until the present time German immigrants and their descendants, the German-Queenslanders, have made and are still making an enormous and significant contribution to the cultural landscape of our great State. Our early German pioneers brought their ‘cultural baggage’, folkways […]
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92 Sussex Street – The Accordion Master and the Wallet
92 Sussex Street – The Accordion Master and the Wallet by Mark Schuster When does an event that seems to be such an astounding coincidence actually have a meaning that we should heed? Also, real life events can be even stranger than our dreams – and when they do happen, […]
Welcome To Germany Downunder
Deutschland Downunder This website and the information and resources contained here is a culmination of a dream and passion to research and document the cultural vestiges and folkways of the German-Queensland pioneer ways. The research has involved many years of talking and getting to know the people, recording and documenting […]
David Forrest and the ‘Lost’ Tapes of Binjour
David Forrest and the ‘Lost’ Tapes of Binjour Photograph of Binjour German settlers brass band Many years ago whilst staying in the Gayndah and Munduberra districts I contacted Vera Wolf in Munduberra when searching for German songs in the Burnett district. Vera informed me that many years previously a young […]
