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Bruce Highway Henry Adam Bruce had been a bushworker in Central Queensland before he became an organizer for the Australian Workers Union and entered politics as a labor candidate, sitting in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from May 1923, to April 1950 when he switched to the Federal Parliament. He was Minister for Works, 15 December, 1934, when the highway which runs from Coolangatta to Cairns was named. Buaraba A grazing run in the 1840s, the name may have been that of a particular horse although the similar place name on the Darling Downs means a place of dry bushes.
There are perils for those who would learn a foreign language.
Budderum was the Kabi Kabi word for the coastal bottlebrush, banksia collina,
sometimes called honeysuckle, which grows on the open sandy country
near the sea. It could have happened that a white person enquiring the
name of the high country to be seen from the beach was given the
name of the coastal bottlebrush instead. The name was written down as
Buderim. The coastal bottlebrush did not grow in the rainforests of
Buderim Mountain, but it was known as Buderim from the time of the
first white intrusion into the area by
timbergetters. William Guy, a member of the survey party sent out to
survey the area for closer settlement, bought 80 acres and settled
there in 1870.
The name
Bulimba is of Aboriginal origin, but it was not the Aboriginal name for
the area. The Aboriginal people called that part of the world
Tugulawa. It was White's Hill, over near Cannon Hill, that they called
Bulimba. However when the pioneering settler, David McConnell of
Cressbrook in the Brisbane Valley built a house there 1849-1850 he
called it
Bulimba. This is a two-story house modelled on the family's
home in the English county of Derbyshire, and the suburb gained its
name from this, one of the earliest stone houses built in Brisbane.
Bullecourt was one of those Soldier Settlement areas named after a World War I battlefield in France where Australian soldiers fought.
Like Lytton,
Bulwer Island was named by the Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, in
honour of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton who appointed him to the
position of
Governor for the new colony.
Bundall was the name of a major sugar plantation on the Nerang River in the 1870s and 80s. It was first settled by an English immigrant, Edmund Price, for cotton growing, but Price ended up a derelict alcoholic on the streets of Brisbane. It came to its heyday during the ownership of Alfred Holland who leased the land to Holland Miskin and Company for the Bundall Sugar Plantation and Mill. In its original Aboriginal form the name referred to a prickly vine.
The Aboriginal meaning for the word Bundanba from which Bundamba is derived is said to have meant the place of tomahawks. Bunjurgen J. G. Steele says that the
word means a female of the banjur class and that the Aboriginal people used it
of the south peak on Mt French. The district of Bunya is now occupied by the Bunyaville State Forest, but the first mail service under that name started in 1874. Its name was changed to Wongan, and later Wongun, but when the post office closed, 1951, the name Bunya was again used for the district. So a tree which featured markedly in the Aboriginal life of South East Queensland prior to white settlement is commemorated. Constance Petrie, following
her father, Tom Petrie, says that the Aboriginal pronunciation was
bon-yi. However Archibald Meston claimed that this was the name used only
by the old Aborigines from the Brisbane region. The Aboriginal folk of the Bunya
Mountains called the tree "bahnya". Its scientific name is Araucaria Bidwilli. |