Deebing Creek: Aboriginal protesters near former mission threatened with eviction as development looms

The entrance to ‘the pit’, where traditional owners believe there are remains of massacred First Nations people, at Deebing Creek near Ipswich. Photograph: Sarah Osborn/The Guardian

Bones hang along the fence at the entrance to a property in the bush on the southern outskirts of Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

Made from papier-mache, the bones represent atrocities the site’s occupants believe were inflicted upon their Indigenous ancestors when it was part of the lands of the Deebing Creek Mission.