Peter Collins

- Peter Collins, Honorary Convenor, The Shire of Toombul History Group

Peter Collins, Life Member and Honorary Convenor

Written by Peter Collins
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Bizarrely, that night, only viewers of Channel Nine's regional news network, WIN-TV (broadcast throughout the Darling Downs and the South Burnett) saw anything about the rally - Brisbane viewers would not have known the event had happened! ©2006 Peter CollinsKalinga Community Group rally, June 4, 2006.Local residents turned out to hear a range of speakers discuss the future of Kalinga Park. ©2006 Peter CollinsKalinga Community Group rally, June 4, 2006.Another view of the crowd and the area where the petitions were displayed on tables. ©2006 Peter CollinsKalinga Community Group rally, June 4, 2006.The view from behind the speakers' makeshift podium. ©2006 Peter CollinsKalinga Community Group rally, June 4, 2006.Some 200 locals turned out to express concern. ©2006 Peter CollinsKalinga Community Group rally, June 4, 2006.Then councillor (now Member for Clayfield), Tim Nicholls (at left) took notes. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Senator Bartlett (foreground) would also address the rally. ©2006 Peter Collins
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KCG member, Werner Forke, asked the crowd to visualise a 30-metre high emissions stack to be built on, or close to, Diggers' Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Member for Clayfield, Liddy Clark, addresses the rally. ©2006 Peter Collins
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The scene...looking towards the speakers' podium. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Written by Peter Collins

THIS gallery of images of Diggers' Drive was captured digitally on Sunday, May 14, 2006.
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Looking towards the eastern (railway overbridge/Sandgate Road) end of the Drive...the entrance to the bike track is in the middle distance. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Targeted for destruction? ©2006 Peter Collins
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Another view looking towards the eastern (railway overbridge/Sandgate Road) end of the Drive...the numbers emblazoned at the base of the trees runs from one to five in this grove. ©2006 Peter Collins
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The roadway was originally formed by gangs of returned servicemen in the 1920s in an unemployment relief scheme set up and auspiced by Toombul Shire Council. ©2006 Peter Collins
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A close-up of a number '5' emblazoned at the base of this mature tallow wood tree at the Sandgate Road end of the Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins
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The imposing Honour Gates at the Park Avenue entrance to Diggers' Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins
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The eastern side of the Honour Gates is flanked by the most charming split-timber, two-rail timber fence that echoes the colonial history of Kalinga Park itself. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Brisbane City Council now locks them each evening. ©2006 Peter Collins
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A close-up of the Kalinga Park Honour Gates. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Another view of the Honour Gates. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Other improvements included modern kerbing and channelling, a re-surface of the road itself, plus signage and other beautification work. ©2006 Peter Collins
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This view is of the eastern end of the playing fields - right about where the Airport Link and North-South Bypass Tunnel linkages will be pushed through over the next few years. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Elegantly framed by mature native trees, the parkland stretches eastward beneath the railway overpasses to Sandgate Road itself. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Another view looking towards the eastern (railway overbridge/Sandgate Road) end of the Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Notice the broad, mature native trees in this view of the Drive, facing west, toward the Honour Gates. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Diggers' Drive follows a stretch of the southern bank of the picturesque Kedron Brook for some 1,200 metres. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Looking towards the eastern (railway overbridge/Sandgate Road) end of the Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins
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When construction begins on the tunnel and associated infrastructure, this section of the bikeway will become off-limits. ©2006 Peter Collins
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Looking towards the western (Honour Gates) end of the Drive. ©2006 Peter Collins