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BOOM Logistics (CQ) hosted a traditional welcome and smoking ceremony for the naming of the newest addition to its crane fleet.
BOOM LOGISTICS ACKNOWLEDGES TRADITIONAL LANDOWNERS Boom Logistics names its latest crane after the Ghungalou Nation in traditional welcome and smoking ceremony. RECENTLY, THE BOOM TEAM FROM the Blackwater operation in Central Queensland (CQ) hosted a traditional welcome and smoking ceremony for the naming of the newest addition to its crane fleet. The area of Central Queensland, traditionally owned by Ghungalou people is bound by the Dawson River in the east, the Comet River in the west, the Mackenzie River in the north and Bigge 36 / CAL January 2020
Range in the south. This land includes the Blackwater depot, and this is a major reason Boom wanted to honour and pay tribute to the Ghungalou people. Rod Welfare, BOOM Logistics’ CQ regional manager, explains a bit more. “Boom CQ management and the Ghungalou crew here in the Blackwater depot worked closely with local indigenous leaders and the Ghungalou Aboriginal Corporation to come up with
a fitting tribute to the people. We were granted permission to name the new crane ‘Ghungalou’ and to decorate it with the totem of a rock wallaby, which represents the men of the tribe. “We have a significant operation here at Blackwater with over 70 crew and we run a fleet of 43 cranes. The fleet ranges from a 15t Franna through to the new 300t Grove all terrain we’ve named Ghungalou. We pretty much operate www.cranesandlifting.com.au
