Aboriginal group launches legal bid to stop Brisbane Olympic stadium
The group says Victoria Park is culturally and historically significant to Indigenous people.
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The Queensland government announced in March that a new A$3.8bn ($2.5bn; £1.8bn) stadium would be built - with federal funding - at Victoria Park, a 60-hectare site.
The Yagara Magandjin Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) and Save Victoria Park group are requesting the federal environment minister to determine the park as a culturally significant site, which could protect the land from development.
Victoria Park is "of great significance and history" for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, YMAC spokeswoman Gaja Kerry Charlton explained.
"We are very concerned there are ancient trees, artefacts and very important ecosystems existing there. There may be ancestral remains."
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