Land clearing at Queensland’s Deebing Creek angers Indigenous protesters

Wangan and Jagalingou man Nathan Baira during a rally against land-clearing at the Deebing Creek site. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Clearing has begun on land in south-eastern Queensland upon which Indigenous protesters claim the bones of their ancestors lay and an unrecognised massacre took place.

Bulldozers on the former Deebing Creek Aboriginal reserve were halted on Friday, however, when the protesters held a smoking ceremony on the site on Ipswich’s southern outskirts.