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            General Store, Nimbin.

Its traditional owners the Bundjalung people know the area as the ‘Rainbow Region’ and it represents to them great cultural significance.

To the rest of us who know the area know it as being the location of the 1973 Aquarius Festival which was held in the old dairy farming village of Nimbin.

According to the first nations people the Whiyabul (Widgibal) the name Nimbin comes their Dreamtime and tells of the Nimbinjee spirit who protected the people in the area.

In the 1840’s red cedar loggers moved into the area and had most of the land cleared by the turn of the century.

With the land cleared of forests Nimbin was subdivided in 1903 when the land was utilised for banana growing and dairy farming.

When the dairy industry collapsed in the 1960’s as a result of financial recession the village slid into deep financial difficulties.

In what would prove to be Australia’s first attempt at Traditional Owners reconciliation by seeking permission to use the land.

It was the beginning of the Aquarius Festival which was intended to be the Australian equivalent of Woodstock. 

In the wake of the festival many people decided to call Nimbin home and went on to establish communes. 

Nimbin is a colourful village that promotes the legalisation of cannabis and as a result it plays host the MardiGrass festival which had its beginning in 1993. 

The village population swells and bursts at the seams as thousands of people converge to participate in the festival which is held in May. 

Nimbin it really is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia.

Taken on: June 21, 2020

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