Hindmarsh Island
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Hindmarsh Island is an inland river island located in the lower Murray River near the town of Goolwa, South Australia.
Plaque of a monument dedicated to Charles Sturt and Collet Barker, erected 1930
Captain Charles Sturt, first European to set foot on Hindmarsh Island in 1830.
View of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge from the Goolwa wharf
Typical grassland scene at Hindmarsh Island
The Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy was a 1990s Australian legal and political controversy that involved the clash of local Aboriginal Australian sacred culture and property rights. A proposed bri
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…cultural significance of the island (the "Secret Women's Business") in order to help fight the development. A later Royal Commission decided that the "Secret Women's Business" was made up. Construction was blocked by the Keating government but given the go-ahead by the Howard government in 1996. In 2001 a Federal Court Judge…
One of the pivotal assertions of "secret women's business" was that the geography of Hindmarsh Island resembled the female reproductive organs. Hindmarsh Island can be seen in the centre-left of the image.