Queensland transport officials will meet Aboriginal groups this week to resolve a standoff over unauthorised flagpoles flying the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Palestinian flags on the popular tourist island of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island).

Workers from the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), flanked by police, tried to remove the two flagpoles on 31 August – the same day as the March for Australia rallies – but were only partly successful after protesters formed a barricade around the second pole.

Members of the local Aboriginal community erected the flagpoles without approval in 2023 on state land along the idyllic foreshore of the Goompi (Dunwich) township, which greets tourists arriving on the ferry from Brisbane.

Dale Ruska, a Goenpul man and traditional

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