Holding Redlich’s Brisbane meeting rooms get new names from Turrbal Tribe

The Turrbal Tribe has granted new names to the meeting rooms in Holding Redlich’s Brisbane office.

The names are taken from Southeast Queensland plants that are strongly linked to the tribe, and were gifted in a formal onsite ceremony led by Elder Maroochy Barambah and Baringa Kukoyi.

“For many thousands of years, local plant life has been an integral part of Country for the Turrbal Tribe. To receive permission to use these names through respectful consultation is a wonderful gift and demonstrates the tribe’s amazing generosity,” Holding Redlich First Nations lawyer Nareeta Davis said. “It is encouraging to think that for years to come, Turrbal names will be spoken daily in Holding Redlich’s Brisbane office, bringing people together to meet.”

Davis consulted extensively with Turrbal Elders in order to obtain permission to use the new names. She explained that the renaming enables the firm to play a part in respecting the traditional landowners in Brisbane and in preserving the language of the tribe.

The meeting rooms will be named as follows:

• Kumbartcho (Moreton Bay ash)
• Biggar   (red ironbark)
• Mungar (blue gum)
• Yura (spotted gum)
• Diura (stringybark)
• Buna (bloodwood)
• Buruda (forest oak)
• Tabbilpalla (fig box)
• Kagarkal (black wattle)
• Ngoangna (Moreton Bay fig)
• Bonyi (Bunya pine)

The move is in line with Holding Redlich’s reconciliation action plan, which outlines the firm’s commitment to “championing the rights of First Nations communities, respecting cultures and creating future opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” managing partner Ian Robertson AO said.

“We are delighted with the outcome of this important and challenging initiative, which presented a significant learning and collaboration experience and has set us up strongly to pursue further reconciliation initiatives in the year ahead,” he said.