Buderim ( ) is a town in the
Sunshine Coast Region
The Sunshine Coast Region is a local government area located in the Sunshine Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia, from which it takes its name.
It was created by the amalgamation in 2008 of the City of Caloundra and the Shires o ...
,
Queensland
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, Australia.
It sits on a mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities.
The name "Buderim" is usually believed to be derived from a local
Kabi Kabi
The Kabi Kabi people, also spelt Gubbi Gubbi, Gabi Gabi, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people native to South Eastern Queensland. During the Australian frontier wars of the 19th century, there were several mass killings of ...
Aboriginal word for the hairpin honeysuckle, (Badderam) ''
Banksia spinulosa var. collina''.
[ However, as the environment on the mountain before British occupation was one of dense rainforest not Banksia heath, the name may have come from the Yugambeh word ''budherahm'' meaning sacred or spiritual.]
In the , the town of Buderim had a population of 58,956 people.
Geography
The urban area of Buderim is not strictly bounded, but in the , Buderim's urban area includes all or most of the land in the following suburbs:[
*]Buderim
Buderim ( ) is a town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It sits on a mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities.
The name "Buderim" is usually believed to be derived from a local Gubbi Gubbi people, ...
* Forest Glen
* Kunda Park
*Mons
Mons commonly refers to:
* Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium
* Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone
* Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain
* Batt ...
*Mountain Creek
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* Sippy Downs
* Tanawha
Historically, until the 2001 census, a section of Buderim
Buderim ( ) is a town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It sits on a mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities.
The name "Buderim" is usually believed to be derived from a local Gubbi Gubbi people, ...
within about of Sunshine Motorway
The Sunshine Motorway is a thirty-three kilometre Australian motorway on the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, just north of Brisbane. It was initially a tolled motorway before these were removed in 1996 after excessive complaints regarding t ...
, as well as Mountain Creek
Mountain Creek is a ski resort in Vernon Township, New Jersey, Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on New Jersey Route 94 in the New York Metropolitan Area, from the George Wash ...
, were considered parts of the neighbouring Maroochydore
Maroochydore ( ) is a coastal town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the urban area of Maroochydore had a population of 63,673 people.
The city was subdivided from the Cotton Tree reserve by Surveyor Thomas O'Conno ...
urban centre.
History
Buderim is an Kabi Kabi or KABI may refer to:
Places
*Kabi Longstok, town in North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India
*Kabi, Sikkim, village in North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India
* Kabi River (''Kafu River''), river in Uganda
People
*Boris Kabi (born 1984), Ivorian fo ...
word meaning ''honeysuckle'' or ''red soil''. The name is also said to come from a Yugambeh word ''Budherahm'', meaning sacred or spiritual.
In 1862, Tom Petrie
Thomas Petrie (31 January 1831 – 26 August 1910) was an Australian explorer, a YN to the districts, gold prospector, logger, and grazier. He was a Queensland pioneer.
Early life
Petrie was born at Edinburgh, fourth son of Andrew Petrie and ...
set out from Brisbane with 25 Turrbal and Kabi Kabi men including Billy Dingy and Wanangga to search for cedar in the Maroochy area. They ascended Buderim mountain where they saw forests of fine timber, then had the satisfaction of being the first to cut a cedar tree there.' Buderim was seen as a resource for timbergetters, as huge stands of Beech and Australian Red Cedar
''Toona ciliata'' is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout South Asia from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Names
It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), tone, toon or toona (als ...
grew across the mountain. Some trees were so large they were wasted due to the lack of transport to carry them down to the river for despatch to Brisbane.
Once clear felled, the plateau was used for farming. The rich red volcanic soil found on Buderim made the area particularly suited to growing almost everything, from bananas to small crops. The most notable were ginger, the crop which made Buderim famous and coffee (in the 20th century) .
Coffee was first grown commercially by Gustav Riebe in 1881 who grew the crops among rows of banana suckers on his 300 acres of land. Riebe was a tea merchant, established in Queen Street Brisbane, who was offering a variety of teas for sale at his Oriental Tea Warehouse. Mr Riebe obviously knew about tea and coffee, and even designed his own machinery to prepare the dried beans for market. Another Buderim coffee farming pioneer was E.J. Burnett who in 1899 sent coffee samples to Earl’s Court Exhibition in London winning a gold medal diploma. Previously Mr Burnett had sent coffee to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886 and received a certificate of merit and a bronze medal. By 1911, Buderim was the largest coffee growing area in the state.
Buderim Mountain Post Office opened on 1 June 1884 (a receiving office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...
had been open from 1874). It was renamed Buderim by 1897.
In 1887, James Lindsay began to operate the Buderim Library from his home ''Ryhope''. It is unclear when Buderim School of Arts was established but it was operating by 1889. In 1924 the old building was removed and a new building was constructed. The stump capping ceremony for the new building was held on Saturday 6 September 1924. The new building was officially opened on Friday 14 November 1924 by the Speaker of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Speaker most commonly refers to:
* Speaker, a person who produces speech
* Loudspeaker, a device that produces sound
** Computer speakers
Speaker, Speakers, or The Speaker may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* "Speaker" (song), by David ...
William Bertram and the Buderim Library operated from the new building. The hall was renovated in 1989 enabling the library to double in size.
Buderim Methodist Church was established in 1907 on the corner of Gloucester Road and King Street. A new church was built in 1963. Following the amalgamation of the Methodist Church into the Uniting Church in Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) is a united church in Australia. The church was founded on 22 June 1977 when most Wiktionary:congregation, congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church o ...
in 1977, it became the Buderim Uniting Church. The current church building was built in 1998. On 3 February 2013 the church established a Garden of Remembrance for the interment of cremated ashes.
On 5 May 1917, Reverend C. Tunstall (Vicar of Maroochy) performed the stump capping ceremony for the new Anglican church. St Mark's Anglican Church was dedicated on Saturday 25 July 1917 by Bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
Henry Le Fanu
Henry Frewen Le Fanu (1 April 1870 – 9 September 1946) was an Anglican bishop in Australia.
Early life
Le Fanu was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford.
Religious life
Le Fanu was ordaine ...
. It was rebuilt and re-dedicated in 1988.
In the middle of the 20th century, the largest ginger processing facility in the southern hemisphere was built, and operated as the Buderim Ginger Factory
Buderim Ginger is a brand of ginger-based food products in Australia. The Buderim Ginger Factory is a working ginger factory and tourist attraction in Pioneer Road, Yandina, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbre ...
until 1980 when operations were moved to a new facility near Yandina. As the value of their produce was eroded, many farmers left the land to find work elsewhere.
The Buderim War Memorial Hall and Library was extended in 1966. The extension provided space for the Buderim branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association
The Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) is the Queensland chapter of the Country Women's Association in Australia. The association seeks to serve the interests of women and children in rural areas in Australia through a network of loca ...
which moved into the extended facility.
In 2011, the average value of Buderim real estate was $475,000 and, largely due to its altitude, its proximity to the Sunshine Coast beaches and its pleasant climate, has increased to $595,000, and this has pressured many others out of the rural lifestyle, as housing development increased in and around Buderim Mountain. Thanks to the huge leap in real estate values during the first decade of 2000, steep land was developed that was previously deemed too expensive to engineer for housing. Due to these developments, the remainder of the farming land and much of the secondary growth rainforest on the escarpment has disappeared. Substantial rainforest remnants remain, especially in the protected area known as the Foote Sanctuary which provides well-maintained public walking paths and BBQ facilities. There is also access to the Buderim Falls. The area is home to an abundance of native wildlife, notably king parrots and lorikeets. Brush turkeys are also a common sight, as are families of kangaroos and wallabies.
Nowadays, the Mountain is notable for the enormous variety of its architectural styles, which range from the classic ' Queenslander' to ultra-modern one-off designs. Some homes, especially those 'on top' with ocean views, sell for seven-figure sums. One celebrated 'mansion', straddling four blocks, has recently been on the market for 'offers close to $20 million'.
Buderim contains a significant heritage relic of the early days in the form of Pioneer Cottage, restored and cared for by the Buderim Historical Society.
Between 1914 and 1935, a small gauge railway ran from Buderim to Palmwoods, to take produce from Buderim farms to market. The railway was closed down in 1935 when improved roads and truck transport made it economically redundant. A substantial section of the old track has been cleared and now provides a fine scenic walking trail running parallel to Mons Road. The magnificent old Krauss steam locomotive which previously hauled the carriages along this track is currently undergoing restoration and is planned for public display in the centre of Buderim, when sufficient funds are raised.
Along with a number of other regional Australian newspapers owned by NewsCorp
The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation founded and controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Formerly inc ...
, the ''Buderim Chronicle
Buderim ( ) is a town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It sits on a mountain which overlooks the southern Sunshine Coast communities.
The name "Buderim" is usually believed to be derived from a local Kabi Kabi Aborigina ...
'' newspaper ceased publication in June 2020.
Heritage listings
Buderim has a number of heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...
sites, including:
* 5 Ballinger Crescent: Pioneer Cottage
* 12 Dixon Road: Canambie Homestead
Canambie Homestead is a heritage-listed plantation at 12 Dixon Road, Buderim, Queensland, Buderim, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built . It is also known as Joseph Dixon's House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Re ...
*8–42 Main Street (): Buderim Mountain State School
Buderim Mountain State School is a heritage-listed state school and war memorial at 8–42 Main Street, Buderim, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built from 1936 to 194 ...
* 10 Orme Road: Buderim House
Buderim House is a heritage-listed homestead at 10 Orme Road, Buderim, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Trotter and built by Christian Schriver. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 Marc ...
* Telco Road: Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway
The Palmwoods-Buderim Tramway is a heritage-listed former tramway at Telco Road, Buderim, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1914 and operated until 1935. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 July ...
Transport
Buderim's suburbs are served by Kinetic Sunshine Coast
Kinetic Sunshine Coast, formerly Sunbus Sunshine Coast, is a bus operator on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Operating services under contract to Translink, it is a subsidiary of Kinetic.
History
In 1995, Harry Blundred, the prop ...
, who operate a transfer station at Buderim Market Place, and a bus station
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at University of the Sunshine Coast
The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC; formerly abbreviated as USC until 2022) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. After opening with 524 students in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College, it ...
. Various bus routes connect Buderim to Maroochydore
Maroochydore ( ) is a coastal town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the urban area of Maroochydore had a population of 63,673 people.
The city was subdivided from the Cotton Tree reserve by Surveyor Thomas O'Conno ...
, Caloundra
Caloundra ( ) is a coastal town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
In the , the town of Caloundra had a population of 96,305 people.
Geography
Caloundra is north of the Brisbane central business district. Caloundra is acce ...
, Nambour
Nambour is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Nambour had a population of 12,145 people.
Geography
Nambour is north of the state capital ...
and other centres.
Demographics
Census populations for the Buderim urban centre have been recorded since 1933. Due to a substantial redefinition of Buderim before the 2001 census, the first column records the UC/L population to 1996 and its component parts thereafter; the second records the SLA based on time series data.
Demographics
In the , the town of Buderim had a population of 29,355.
Education
The University of the Sunshine Coast
The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC; formerly abbreviated as USC until 2022) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. After opening with 524 students in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College, it ...
is located near Buderim at Sippy Downs.
The area is exceptionally well-served for both state and private schools, including:
* Buderim Mountain State School caters for Prep to Year 6. The school opened on 5 July 1875.
* Chancellor State College
Chancellor State College is a public, co-educational, P-12, school located in the Buderim suburb of Sippy Downs, in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 2,922 students and a teaching ...
(secondary 2004; primary 1997)
* Mountain Creek State School (1994)
* Mountain Creek State High School
Mountain Creek State High School (MCSHS) is a co-ed secondary school on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It is located in the suburb of Mountain Creek, 96 kilometres (60 mi) north of Brisbane. It is also home to 233 Squadron of the Australian ...
(1995)
* Immanuel Lutheran College (1982)
* Matthew Flinders Anglican College (1989)
* Montessori International College (1982)
* Siena Catholic Primary School (2001)
* Siena Catholic College
Siena Catholic College, Queensland, Australia is a co-educational Catholic day college situated at Sippy Downs on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Opened in 1997, it caters for students in Years 7–12 and has an enrolment of approximately 1000 s ...
(1997)
* Sunshine Coast Grammar School
The Sunshine Coast Grammar School is a private Christianity, Christian school located in Forest Glen, Queensland, Forest Glen, a town on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast.
The school has a student body of over 1200, from ...
(1997)
*Chevallum State School (1921)
A primary school operated in nearby Mons from 7 February 1916 to 31 December 1974.[
]
Amenities
Buderim Library is at 3 Main Street (). It is operated by volunteers and is funded by memberships and other fund railsing.
The Sunshine Coast Council
The Sunshine Coast Region is a local government area located in the Sunshine Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia, from which it takes its name.
It was created by the amalgamation in 2008 of the City of Caloundra and the Shires of ...
operates a mobile library
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service which visits Lindsay Road opposite the Post Office and North Buderim Boulevard.
The Buderim branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association
The Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) is the Queensland chapter of the Country Women's Association in Australia. The association seeks to serve the interests of women and children in rural areas in Australia through a network of loca ...
meets at the QCWA Rooms at 3 Main Street.
St Mark's Anglican Church is at 7 Main Street (). Services and other events are held Sunday to Thursday. It has a liberal outlook and supports the LGBT community.
Buderim Uniting Church is at 2–10 Gloucester Road ().
Attractions
The Buderim Heritage Walk introduces visitors to the history of Buderim through a walk through the historic places in the town.
Notable people
* Bindi Irwin, actress, television presenter and conservationist, was born in Buderim
* Robert Irwin, conservationist, was born in Buderim
* Harri Jones
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, racing driver, was born in Buderim
* Peggy Kelman
Margaret Mary Kelman, OBE (6 April 1909 – 23 December 1998) was an Australian pioneer aviator.
Personal life
Kelman was born as Margaret Mary McKillop in Scotland in 1909, her father was the Irish nationalist politician William McKillop, an ...
, OBE
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Australian pioneer aviator, died in Buderim
* Mitch Larkin
Mitchell James Larkin (born 9 July 1993) is an Australian former competitive swimmer who specialises in backstroke events. He represented the Cali Condors as part of the International Swimming League. Larkin competed for Australia at the 2012 S ...
, Australian Swimmer, born in Buderim
* Tahlia Randall, Australian rules footballer, was born in Buderim
* Russell Skerman
Russell Wigton Skerman (24 September 1903 – 24 February 1983) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland from 1962 to 1973. Skerman was the Northern Judge based in Townsville, Northern Queensland from 1962 to 1970. In 1970, he transfer ...
, Supreme Court Judge, retired to Buderim
* Edna Walling
Edna Margaret Walling (4 December 1895 – 8 August 1973) was one of Australia's most influential landscape designers.
Early years and migration
Walling was born in Yorkshire and grew up in the village of Bickleigh in Devon, England, sec ...
, landscape designer, retired to Buderim
* Jessica Watson
Jessica Watson (born 18 May 1993) is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo circumnavigation at the age of 16. Although she circled the planet, she did it in a narrow range of latitudes that re ...
, OAM, Australian sailor, resident of Buderim
See also
* List of tramways in Queensland
List of tramways in Queensland provides three separate lists, each in alphabetical order of the key identifier. They are:
* Non sugar cane tramways, ordered by Tramway Name as contained in Wikipedia articles.
* Sugar cane tramways, ordered by Sug ...
References
External links
*
Buderim Web Site
Buderim: The source of dream coffee beans in 19th century Queensland
John Oxley Library Blog, State Library of Queensland.
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Towns in Queensland
Sunshine Coast Region