"no Guernicas, No Sacred Places": on the Closure of Meanjin
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I learned recently that meanjin, pronounced meen-in, is a word meaning spear head and has been adopted as the place name for Brisbane.
The name refers mainly to a spear shaped spur of land in the Brisbane River roughly where the botanical gardens are.
There doesn’t appear to be any evidence there was a single word for all of Brisbane so calling the whole city Meanjin is like referring all of Melbourne, Fitzroy.
We have the olympics coming up, it sounds like the government is looking to swallow the surrounding cities into Brisbane for better international recognition, I wonder if they will be Meanjin too?