Arana Hills, Queensland

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Arana Hills
Moreton Bay, Queensland
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Arana Hills Plaza, 2013
Arana Hills is located in Queensland
Arana Hills
Arana Hills
Coordinates27°23′36″S 152°57′17″E / 27.3933°S 152.9547°E / -27.3933; 152.9547 (Arana Hills (centre of suburb))
Population6,810 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density1,841/km2 (4,770/sq mi)
Postcode(s)4054
Area3.7 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10:00)
Location
LGA(s)Moreton Bay Region
State electorate(s)Ferny Grove
Federal Division(s)Dickson
Suburbs around Arana Hills:
Bunya Bunya Bunya
Ferny Hills Arana Hills Everton Hills
Ferny Grove Keperra Keperra

Arana Hills is a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2016 census Arana Hills had a population of 6,810 people.[1]

Geography[]

Arana Hill is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north-west of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland and on the edge of the Bunyaville Forest Reserve. Informally it is part of the Hills District.

History[]

Kedron Brook, 2013

The first land purchaser in the Hills District was Edward Owens, Portion 12 (Patricks Road to Kedron Brook), in 1863 (now part of the locality of Ferny Hills).

The first land purchaser in the Arana Hills District was Henry St John Bridgeman in November 1863. This portion 9 parish of Bunya which covers a pocket of land bounded in part by Kedron Brook and Dawson Parade very soon became the property of William McCallum Park, who sold to the Patrick family at the turn of the century.

The first subdivision was in 1937, named Patricks Estate with central road named Grove Avenue. The lots were 1–2 acres (4,000–8,100 m2). Twenty-one years later, Camden Park Estate, being the 88 acres (36 ha) of other adjoining land formerly occupied by the Patrick family, was subdivided by Willmore and Randell. Prior to selling, from 1958 there were many problems of both access and water supply for which that firm agreed to provide some of the finance to the Pine Shire Council through this, the first of the small block housing estates in the shire. Other land estates to the north-west of the suburb were developed in the 1960s and 1970s.

The early residents started a Progress Association, whose effort brought to the attention of the relevant agencies, the needs of the growing community, e.g. postal services, specific road maintenance etc. On behalf of that association, Mrs Melva Welch commenced the special service of visiting each new family who moved to the area, giving them information on all local services, and, most importantly say "welcome". For twenty-eight years, the Adviser Newspaper, which was completely compiled and distributed by local volunteers under the umbrella of the Progress Association, brought to every home in the Hills district, news items from clubs, organizations and the Pine Rivers Shire Council (the name of the local authority had changed in 1959). Local businesses were encouraged to advertise for a very moderate[clarification needed] fee, and the people who had been visited were also welcomed in the Adviser. Information gathered from the welcoming service visits also provided an accurate census on demographics in the suburb relating to future provision of services.

Prior to December 1962 when the new name was gazetted, the Queensland Place Names Board decreed that there were too many Camdens and Camden Parks, and this was confirmed when some confusion did occur with the area's mail being sent to Camden Park in South Australia.

There was consideration of many possible names before Mrs Pam Cory suggested that Arana, as an Aboriginal word for welcome,[citation needed] would be appropriate. Some years later, a newcomer claimed the word Orana was Welcome and that Arana was the word for Moon. Without anything more than an unsuccessful cursory check of available dictionaries of Aboriginal words, the substituted meaning was featured in the 1978 Arana Hills logo design. Aboriginal people never developed writing, so the naming words were written by Europeans in Roman script as they interpreted hearing the sounds. It has been suggested that vowels are not as important as consonants in the native languages,[citation needed] so Arana could just as well be transcribed as Orana or Urana.

Camden Park, a small triangular area in the middle of the original housing estate, retains the name as a reminder of earlier years, as does Camden Court. Mr George Willmore, the real estate developer, named many of the streets in the central Arana Hills subdivision in memory of the area around Sydney where he had lived.

Arana Hills is almost entirely a residential suburb, with 20% of its area as parkland. It has a mixture of 1960s-style chamferboard timber houses and more contemporary brick housing built upon steep hills, some with lovely city views. Some of the newer housing has been built on land in the northern part of the suburb adjacent to the land previously held by the Railways as a timber reserve, and which is now Bunyaville State Forestry Park. In this Arlington chain of estates developed in the early 1990s, it is still common to see horse riders around the Collins Road area, ducks and their ducklings crossing busy roads and the occasional koala perched high up in the many trees in the district.

Pine Community School opened in Arana Hills on 24 January 1983.[3]

In 2008, Arana Hills was affected by severe thunderstorms that also affected many properties in northern Brisbane, causing millions of dollars of damage. Many volunteers and SES crews were needed to help clean up the damage. The area has now returned to its original state, but with the loss of some trees.[4][5]

In the 2016 census Arana Hills had a population of 6,810 people.[1]

Education[]

Pine Community School is a private primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 123 Bunya Road (

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27°23′15″S 152°57′46″E / 27.3874°S 152.9629°E / -27.3874; 152.9629 (Pine Community School)).[6][7] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 94 students with 11 teachers (9 full-time equivalent) and 8 non-teaching staff (6 full-time equivalent).[8]

There are no government schools in Arana Hills. The nearest government primary schools are Grovely State School in neighbouring Keperra to the south-east, Ferny Hills State School in neighbouring Ferny Hills to the south-west, and Patricks Road State School also in neighbouring Ferny Hills to the west. The nearest secondary schools are Mitchelton State High School in Mitchelton to the south-east and Ferny Grove State High School in Ferny Grove to the south-west.[9]

Amenities[]

Arana Hills is served by several neighbourhood shopping villages as well as a commercial indoor shopping complex anchored by a Kmart and Coles supermarket which opened in 1978. The area is also served by Brookside Shopping Centre, which is located 3 km to the East and the Great Western Super Centre, 3 km to the South-West. It contains one kindergarten, C & K, and two privately run childcare facilities.

Arana Hills has its own fire station, medical centre and is well serviced by public buses and Grovely railway station less than 1 km away. The main post office is located in the Kmart Plaza, with the suburb serviced only by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (with ANZ, Westpac, Suncorp, BOQ all closing/moving since 2012).

Arana Hills has many community run clubs and associations which are almost solely responsible for many of the sporting facilities being built.

The Hills District of Ferny, Arana and Everton Hills community now have a commercially printed newspaper published monthly called the Echo.

The Moreton Bay Regional Council operates a Public Library in Arana Hills at 63 Cobbity Crescent, the library was opened in 1976.[10][11]

Arana Hills Uniting Church (also known as The Hills Uniting Church) is at 14 Alstonia Street (

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27°23′57″S 152°57′11″E / 27.3993°S 152.953°E / -27.3993; 152.953 (Arana Hills Uniting Church)).[12][13][14]

There are a number of parks in the area:

Demographics[]

In the 2011 census, Arana Hills recorded a population of 6,313 people, 51% female and 49% male.

The median age of the Arana Hills population was 35 years, 2 years below the national median of 37.

82.5% of people living in Arana Hills were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 3.5%, New Zealand 3.3%, South Africa 0.9%, Scotland 0.5%, Papua New Guinea 0.5%.

92.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.4% Hindi, 0.4% Cantonese, 0.4% Italian, 0.3% Afrikaans, 0.3% German.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Arana Hills (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Arana Hills – suburb in Moreton Bay Region (entry 49592)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  3. ^ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  4. ^ "Severe Thunderstorms in Southeast Queensland 16th – 20th November 2008". Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Building task force announced for storm-hit Brisbane". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 November 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  6. ^ "State and non-state school details". Queensland Government. 9 July 2018. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Pine Community School". Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  8. ^ "ACARA School Profile 2018". Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Arana Hills Library". plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Public Libraries Statistical Bulletin 2016-17" (PDF). p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Arana Hills Uniting Church". Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  13. ^ Google (6 May 2021). "Arana Hills Uniting Church" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Find a church". Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Land for public recreation - Queensland". Queensland Open Data. Queensland Government. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  • Welch, Melva A. (1984). "Bowling along with the Patricks at Mt Pleasant Homestead"
  • Welch, Melva A. (1981). "Toponymy, a list of placenames in the Hills & Bunya Districts"
  • Smith, Lawrence S. (1988). "Tracks and Times; A history of the Pine Rivers district"

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