{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = suburb | name = Mundoolun | city = Logan City | state = QLD | image = Tremayne Road Mundoolun.jpg | caption = Paddocks along Tremayne Road, 2014 | coordinates = {{coord|-27.8941|153.0711|type:city_region:AU-QLD|display=inline,title|name=Mundoolun (centre of locality)}} | local_map = yes | zoom = 10 | pop = 1836 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name=Census2021/> | established = 1842 | postcode = 4285 | area = 43.6 | timezone = AEST | utc = +10:00 | dist1 = 18.4 <!-- road distances as per template instructions --> | dir1 = SW | location1 = Yarrabilba | dist2 = 21.7 | dir2 = NE | location2 = Beaudesert | dist3 = 38.9 | dir3 = S | location3 = Logan Central | dist4 = 55.1 | dir4 = S | location4 = Brisbane CBD | lga = Logan City | stategov = Scenic Rim | fedgov = Wright | rainfall = 988 | rainfall_footnotes = <ref>Bureau of Meteorology Station: 040544 Bromfleet</ref> | near-n = Tamborine | near-ne = Tamborine | near-e = Tamborine | near-se = Boyland | near-s = Birnan | near-sw = Veresdale Scrub | near-w = Cedar Vale | near-nw = Jimboomba }} '''Mundoolun''' is a rural locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia.<ref name=qpnl>{{cite QPN|45280|Mundoolun|locality in City of Logan|access-date=7 March 2022}}</ref> The locality was among the first pastoral runs in the Logan/Albert River catchment.In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Mundoolun had a population of 1,836 people.<ref name=Census2021/>
== Geography == The locality is located in the Albert River valley, bounded by the Albert River to the east and the Birnam Range to the west. Mundoolun Bridge marks the boundary between the Upper and Lower Albert River reaches.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
In recent years housing lots have been developed as part of 'The Mundoolun Estate' situated east of Mundoolun Road.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
The Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road through the south-east corner.<ref>{{Google maps |url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Mundoolun+QLD+4285/@-27.8940325,153.0010669,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b913b2f84a2598d:0x502a35af3de9210!8m2!3d-27.9016603!4d153.0693767 |access-date=21 February 2022 |title=Mundoolun}}</ref>
== History == The name Mundoolun is generally attributed to ''mundoolgunn'' (various spellings, including ''mundulgunn''), a place name for death adder in the Bundjalung language (Yugambeh dialect).<ref name="qpnl" /> In 1936 a toponymic list appeared in ''The Courier-Mail'' newspaper referring to an indigenous word ''Mundoolunookum'' of the same meaning.<ref name=CM1936>{{cite news|title=Nomenclature of Queensland.–220|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|page=14|date=13 June 1936|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38494627|access-date=26 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133311/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38494627|url-status=live}}</ref>
Mundoolun is part of the region occupied by the Wangerriburra people prior to European settlement. The Wangerriburra were commonly known as the Albert tribe and their territory consisted of the middle Albert River basin and upper Coomera River.<ref name=LANE1914>{{cite report|author=Lane, John|others=Allen, John|title=Appendix: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Notes of the Wangerriburra Tribe : Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals for the year 1913|date=1914|pages=23–35|publisher=Chief Protector of Aboriginals, Queensland Government|url=http://archive.aiatsis.gov.au/removeprotect/63892.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=28 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505160512/http://archive.aiatsis.gov.au/removeprotect/63892.pdf|archive-date=5 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177939746|title=Albert Aboriginals.|date=2 October 1914|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=2 December 2019|issue=13,063|location=Queensland, Australia|page=5 (SECOND EDITION)|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133311/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/177939746|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 1827 Captain Patrick Logan, commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, made an expedition to Mount Barney. The expedition is believed to have passed through the Mundoolun area; Logan notes in his journal, "June 18th.—Continued my route; passed through a rich valley;".<ref name=SG1827>{{cite news|title=Shipping lntelligence. Journal of Captain Logan's pedestrian Tour, in the neighbourhood of Moreton Bay, in the month of June, 1827.|newspaper=The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser|page=2|date=17 August 1827|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2188791|access-date=23 March 2013|archive-date=5 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205060542/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2188791|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=STEELE1972>{{cite book|author=Steele, J. G.|title=The Explorers of the Moreton Bay District 1770–1830|year=1972|page=[https://archive.org/details/explorersofmoret0000stee/page/213 213]|publisher=University of Queensland Press|location=St. Lucia, Queensland|isbn=0702206970|url=https://archive.org/details/explorersofmoret0000stee/page/213|url-access=registration}}</ref>
=== Mundoolun station === Closure of the penal settlement in 1842 and its {{convert|50|mi|adj=on}} exclusion radius opened the area to pastoralists. In 1842 William Humphreys, a sheep grazier on the Liverpool Plains, took up several thousand acres on the Albert River and established a pastoral property, or station (Depasturing License number 661).<ref name="SRNSW">{{cite web |title=Depasturing licences, 1837-46, 1851 : Humphreys, William |url=http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchhits_nocopy.aspx?table=Depasturing%20Licenses&id=67&frm=1&query=Surname:Humphrey;Firstname:William |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133308/https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/ |archive-date=22 May 2022 |access-date=26 March 2013 |work=Indexes Online |publisher=State Records Authority of New South Wales}}</ref> Although Humphreys initially used the name 'Mount Martin Station', the property soon became known as 'Moondoolun' (or 'Moondoolan') which was later changed to 'Mundoolun' (closer to the generally accepted pronunciation).<ref name="GODFREY2000">{{cite book |author=Godfrey, D. |title=A Journey in Time from Moreton Bay District 1842 to Beaudesertshire {{sic}} Queensland 2000 |date=2000 |publisher=D. Godfrey |location=Munruben, Queensland |page=61 |chapter=Chapter 5: "Mt. Martin" "Moondoolan" "Mundoolun" Kinghorn; Tremayne: 1842 to 2000. |oclc=271688070}}</ref> Humphreys encouraged his cousin Anne Collins and her husband John to join him there in 1844. By 1847 the Collins family were sole owners of the Mundoolun property.<ref name=HMS1975>{{cite book|title=The History of Mundoolun Station, and Other Stations in the Beaudesert District|year=1975|location=Brisbane|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12454711|publisher=Brisb|access-date=2 April 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133313/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12454711|url-status=live}}</ref>
Humphreys farmed sheep and built a three room cottage, with ironbark slabs and a thatched roof. The cottage was sited near the Albert River which provided a water supply. A similar cottage was built by the Collins family nearby.<ref name=PERRY1923>{{cite book|author=Perry, Harry C.|title=Pioneering : the life of the Hon. R.M. Collins, M.L.C.|year=1923|pages=11–12|publisher=Watson, Ferguson & Co|location=Brisbane|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12088614|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213140322/http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12088614|archive-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>
After a decade of extension (ca. 1854) the Collins's slab hut became essentially the homestead that stands today (the Old Homestead). The outer walls consist of pit-sawn local cedar. Wide verandas exemplify the residences of the period. An outside cooking shed was erected to reduce the risk of fire. The eldest sons, Robert and William, helped introduce cattle (sheep were moved to properties further west when they proved unsuitable for coastal country<ref name=CM1898>{{cite news|title=A Queensland Pioneer. The Late Mr. John Collins.|newspaper=Brisbane Courier|page=8|date=20 August 1898|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3677343|access-date=15 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133313/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3677343|url-status=live}}</ref>). Another homestead, built on the property in 1915 by the Fraser family—descendants of the Collins, burnt down in 1939. The Old Homestead is still inhabited by the Fraser family, who continue to run the property which occupied just over {{convert|3000|ha|acre}} in 2011.<ref name=BT2011>{{cite journal|title=Lifestyle Profile : Historic Mundoolun|journal=Our Lifestyle|pages=2–7|date=February 2011|publisher=Beaudesert Times}}</ref>
From 1863 to 1872 a government financed mail coach operated between Casino and Brisbane, stopping at Mundoolun.<ref name=CM1863>{{cite news|title=Time Table of Arrival and Despatch of Mails for 1863.|newspaper=Brisbane Courier|page=4|date=17 February 1863|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3161550|access-date=20 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133311/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3161550|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=LCCOACH>{{cite web|title=Cobb and Co.|work=The Histories of Logan|publisher=Logan City Council|url=http://www.logan.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/74743/6558380-Handout6-Cobb-and-Co.pdf|access-date=15 March 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424152610/http://www.logan.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/74743/6558380-Handout6-Cobb-and-Co.pdf|archive-date=24 April 2013}}</ref>
=== Tick fever experiments === thumbnail|Tick Fever No. 2 Steer Mundoolun Experiments, 1897 Mundoolun's association with investigating the tick-borne disease of cattle caused by blood parasites, known as tick fever or red water (babesiosis, anaplasmosis), began with William Collins, the second son of John and Anne. William and his older brother Robert had travelled through cattle districts in North America during the 1870s, and on returning to Australia the brothers contributed to the improvement of the Queensland pastoral industry. Tick fever was recognised as a serious threat to Queensland cattle during the 1890s, and in 1896 William and Dr J. Sidney Hunt were sent by the government to the United States to inquire into the American cattle tick problem (known there as ''Texas fever'' or ''Southern cattle fever'').<ref name=ADBWC>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|title=William Collins (1846–1909)|last=O'Neill|first=Sally|year=1969|volume=3|id2=collins-william-3343|access-date=12 March 2013|url-status=live|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/collins-william-3343|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218124525/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/collins-william-3343|archive-date=18 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=CM1896>{{cite news|title=The Albert River.|newspaper=Brisbane Courier|page=6|date=10 July 1896|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3629888|access-date=11 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133312/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3629888|url-status=live}}</ref>
The following year in 1897, cattle on the Collins's Mundoolun station were inoculated in pioneering experiments for tick fever conducted by Charles Joseph Pound of the Queensland Stock Institute. Inoculum was sourced, directly and by passage through calves, from steers of Inkerman Station in northern Queensland which had recovered from tick fever. Pound's observations were reported to include: cattle were a host for the disease "germ", and indications that immunity may be acquired ''in utero'' or induced by inoculation.<ref name=CM1897>{{cite news|title=Inoculation for Tick Fever.|newspaper=Brisbane Courier|page=6|date=15 May 1897|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3650931|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133319/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3650931|url-status=live}}</ref>
The work following these experiments resulted in Pound producing a pamphlet in 1898 for the inoculation of cattle. Pound referred to experiments and experience as supporting "the efficacy of the method of preventive inoculation for tick fever as first initiated in the Mundoolun and Inkerman experiments of April, 1897".<ref name=Q1898>{{cite news|title=The Pastoralist. Tick Fever. Preventive Inoculation. Technique of the Method.|newspaper=The Queenslander|pages=1137–1138|date=10 December 1898|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20854287|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133313/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20854287|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Moondoolan School === Moondoolan Provisional School opened circa 1880 and closed circa 1898.<ref name="qfhs">{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=Queensland Family History Society|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}}</ref> In 1892 it was described as one of the best taught and organised provisional schools in the state.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123015698|title=ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.|date=23 June 1892|newspaper=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser|access-date=2 December 2019|issue=[?]834|location=Queensland, Australia|volume=XXXIII|page=6|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133316/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123015698|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== St John's church === thumbnail|St John's Mundoolun Church, 2013 A private family chapel, also known as the Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist, was built in 1901 by the Collins family in memory of John and Anne Collins. Situated west of Mundoolun Road, the church was built from local sandstone to a design by John H. Buckeridge, Diocesan Architect of Brisbane at the time. The style is described as Early English Gothic with a square, castellated bell tower. The site was selected next to the family cemetery, on a ridge of the Birnam Range behind the Mundoolun homestead. The church was added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 1999.<ref name=QHR2011>{{cite QHR|15855|St John's Church|601082|access-date=12 August 2015}}</ref>
In the cemetery is the grave of Bullumm (1850–1931), also known as John Allen, the last survivor of the Wangerriburra people and a lifelong associate of the Collins family.<ref name=YMLHRC>{{cite web|title=The Language of the Wangerriburra and Neighbouring Groups in the Yugambeh Region|publisher=Yugambeh Museum, Language and Heritage Research Centre|url=http://www.yugambeh.com/resources_language.php|access-date=13 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124095521/http://www.yugambeh.com/resources_language.php|archive-date=24 November 2013}}</ref> In 1913 Bullumm helped John Lane, headmaster of the Jimboomba State School, to compile the Wangerriburra language, and their work was included as an appendix in the 1913 annual report of ''The Chief Protector of Aboriginals''.<ref name=LANE1914 />
=== Artillery and light horse === thumbnail|Light-horsemen on parade in an army camp near Mundoolun, 1909 As early as 1901, the year Australia became federated, the Mundoolun area was used for military exercises. In March that year the ''Brisbane Courier'' newspaper contained the notice, "the Field Artillery Section, Q.R.R.A.A. (Queensland Regiment Royal Australian Artillery), will proceed to camp at Mundoolun, by road, on the 25th instant, for the purpose of carrying out artillery practice". The notice mentions Major Chauvel in command of the Headquarters Band.<ref name="CM1901">{{cite news |date=18 March 1901 |title=Military Notifications. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19088272 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133320/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19088272 |archive-date=22 May 2022 |access-date=12 March 2013 |newspaper=Brisbane Courier |page=7}}</ref>
These military exercises were regularly conducted in the area prior to the First World War. In 1913 a ''Brisbane Courier'' report gave details of the camp, then named ''Tambourine {{sic}} Camp'', describing its location, "The site of the camp is practically the same as in former years, namely, on a slope overlooking the Albert River and Mundoolun Homestead,". The report notes the suitability of the site due to the quality of water from the Albert River at Mundoolun for drinking, washing, and swimming.<ref name="CM1913">{{cite news |date=26 March 1913 |title=With the Field Artillery. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19866048 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133314/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19866048 |archive-date=22 May 2022 |access-date=12 March 2013 |newspaper=Brisbane Courier |page=6}}</ref>
One member of the Collins family, Douglas Martin Fraser (1888–1968), served with the 5th Light Horse Regiment in Palestine during 1918. Fraser had married Marion Dorothea Jane, daughter of Robert Collins, in 1915 and it was on the Collins's property at Mundoolun where their first home was built.<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|title=Douglas Martin Fraser (1888–1968)|last=Kowald|first=Margaret|year=1996|volume=14|id2=fraser-douglas-martin-10240|access-date=13 March 2013|url-status=live|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fraser-douglas-martin-10240|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418131725/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fraser-douglas-martin-10240|archive-date=18 April 2015}}</ref>
=== World War 2 === Military training is still conducted in the region at the Canungra Military Area which was established during the Second World War.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
=== 21st century === Formerly in the Shire of Beaudesert, Mundoolun became part of Logan City following the local government amalgamations in March 2008.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}
== Demographics == In the {{CensusAU|2011}}, Mundoolun recorded a population of 1,327 people, 50.6% female and 49.4% male. The median age of the Mundoolun population was 34 years, 3 years below the national median of 37. 76.6% of people living in Mundoolun were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 7.4%, New Zealand 4%, Netherlands 1.1%, Germany 0.7%, United States of America 0.6%. 93.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.1% Dutch, 0.9% German, 0.5% Finnish, 0.3% French, 0.3% Spanish.
In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Mundoolun had a population of 1,551 people.<ref name=Census2016>{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC32084|name=Mundoolun (SSC)|access-date=20 October 2018|quick=on}}</ref>
In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Mundoolun had a population of 1,836 people.<ref name=Census2021>{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL32066|name=Mundoolun (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}</ref>
== Heritage listings == Mundoolun has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * St John's Church, Mundoolun Road<ref>{{cite QHR|15855|St John's Church|601082|access-date=10 July 2013}}</ref>
== Education == There are no schools in Mundoolun. The nearest government primary schools are Jimboomba State School in neighbouring Jimboomba to the north-west, Beaudesert State School in Beaudesert to the south, and Veresdale Scrub State School in neighbouring Veresdale Scrub to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are Yarrabilba State Secondary College in Yarrabilba to the north and Beaudesert State High School in Beaudesert to the south.<ref name="globeschools">{{cite web |title=Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments |url=https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |access-date=18 September 2024 |website=Queensland Globe |publisher=Queensland Government |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219175447/https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== See also == {{Portal|Queensland}} * Logan City * Albert River (Queensland)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Mundoolun, Queensland}} * {{cite web|url=http://queenslandplaces.com.au/mundoolun|title=Mundoolun|publisher=Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland|website=Queensland Places}} *{{cite web | title = John Allen (Bullumm) | work = Monument Australia | url = http://monumentaustralia.org.au/australian_monument/display/92120 | access-date = 12 March 2013 }} *{{cite web | title = Mundoolun | work = Logan Suburbs | publisher = Logan City Council | url = http://www.logan.qld.gov.au/about-logan/suburbs/mundoolun | access-date = 7 March 2013 }} *{{cite web | title = Mundoolun (Qld.) | work = Pictures Online | publisher = National Library of Australia | url = http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=mundoolun&type=all&limit%5B%5D=&submit=Find&limit%5B%5D=format%3APicture&limit%5B%5D=format%3AOnline | access-date = 13 March 2013 }} *{{cite journal | last = Stewart | first = Jean |date=February 1995 | title = The Collins letters. -Description of letters written by Jane Collins of Mundoolun Station (Beaudesert, Qld), 1860 to 1868. Paper presented to Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Conference (1994: Beaudesert, Qld )- | journal = Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland | volume = 15 | issue = 10 | pages = 489–496 | publisher = Royal Historical Society of Queensland | issn = 1447-1345 | access-date = 22 March 2013 | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/51886754 }} *{{Citation|title=The History of Mundoolun Station, and other stations in the Beaudesert District|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12454711|date=1975|publisher=Brisbane|access-date=2 December 2019}} *{{cite web |title = Tick Fever |work = Animal disease control |publisher = Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Queensland) |url = http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/4790_5812.htm |access-date = 22 March 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130105153344/http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/4790_5812.htm |archive-date = 5 January 2013 |url-status = dead }}
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