Locals Argue Against Plan to Hand Over ’95 Percent’ of Town to Aboriginal Corporation

Published on March 21, 2024

Locals in the small Queensland town of Toobeah—pronounced “two beer”—400 kilometres southwest of Brisbane on the Queensland/New South Wales border, have been surprised by plans to hand over “95 percent” of freehold town land to a local Aboriginal corporation. They claim they were not consulted during discussions between the Goondiwindi Regional Council and the Queensland Labor government to hand over the 220-hectare Toobeah Reserve to the Bigambul Native Title Aboriginal Corporation (BNTAC). “[They] have been doing a plan to give away all of the crown land around our town,” according to Michael Offerdahl, owner of the Toobeah Hotel. “Our town common, rodeo ground, town hall, town dump. We’ve only got like 12 to 14 houses in our town, we don’t have sewerage, potable water, anything. They’ve been doing this plan up, it’s all been secret, no community consultation,” he claimed....

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