Inala has been known as hub for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and community since the beginning of our suburb. Families who camped by the creeks around the Inala and Acacia Ridge area in the 50’s started to move into house in the 60’s. Inala is home to the oldest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Brisbane, some of our community members were born at the birthing tree located in Oxley.

Commonly typified as a ‘bad’ neighbourhood by those who live outside of the region, Inala’s unique history and culturally diverse population from broad and diverse social and economic backgrounds is one of our suburbs’ greatest strengths. The people who live here have a strong sense of community connection, belonging and pride.

Whilst many of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community who identify with Inala, do indeed, experience hardship and struggles our strength is in our community, our pride, our connection to culture and our shared histories.

Our pride in community is shown through our attachments to our street names, our postcode, the songs written about our home, our memories and stories of the struggles, the success of many Inala people and the language and culture that we proudly call our own.

While our community’s problems may seem insurmountable to outsiders, Inala Wangarra knows that by embracing our organisational values, along with our strength-based approach combined with our enormous social and cultural strength and capacity we continue to build positive social change and we re-affirm our local people’s pride in our community.

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