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Agenda - Ordinary Meeting 22 November 2012 - CITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT REPORTS
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This is the type of facility which, if appropriately located, designed and programmed, would
meet the greatest number of the selection criteria identified in Section 2. As discussed, a
current deficit for visitors to Coffs Harbour is a very low level of access to heritage and
cultural activities in general. Access to a facility with interpretation of Aboriginal heritage and
culture and Aboriginal visual arts may help address this lack. It would also create a wetweather
facility for children’s activities during school holidays. With a growing Aboriginal
population, a sense of pride of the community in the value put on their heritage is even more
central to the social health of the community.
There are a number of key aspects for the concept to work:
A very high visibility location – this centre is about acknowledgment, education,
entertainment and retail sales where appropriate;
A high quality and consistent level of interpretation resources and of art and heritage
products for sale; and
An emphasis on children’s holiday and school activities related to the purpose of the
centre.
9.3 Interpretative signage
For similar reasons, it is proposed to extend the use of the language of the Gumbaynggirr
people on signage in locations such the airport, the Coffs Creek walk, the Regional Botanic
Garden, the entrance to the marina walk to Muttonbird Island. There are many forms such
signage could take including integration into an existing built object such as a footpath.
Strategy Council Role Comments/examples
30. Feasibility study into
Aboriginal gallery and heritage
interpretative centre
Advocate
Facilitator
The centre would also direct visitors to
other aboriginal cultural experiences
such as those offered at Yarrawarra and
at Muttonbird Island.
31. Publish an Aboriginal
heritage map of the Coffs
Region including an Aboriginal
events calendar
32. Interpretative signage at
airport and entry points into
Coffs Harbour
33. Incorporation of working
exhibits into community
Facilitator
Provider
Facilitator
Queensland publishes a comparable map
of high quality.
Prominent location is key
Events such as the annual Saltwater
Freshwater Festival already incorporate
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