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In a suburban park in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Daniel Thompson and Anna Schollum push a strange-looking device back and forth across strips of land around a big gum tree.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the name of a person who has died.
The device is a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scanner and can reveal soil disturbances several metres below the surface.
Mr Thompson and Ms Schollum hope the technology will help confirm what they have long believed that Yuggera man King Billy Turner was buried in Shapcott Park in the late 1800s.
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THE developer wanting to build a residential development next to a former Aboriginal mission site and cemetery has applied to have its approval period for the project extended.
AV Jennings has applied to Ipswich City Council to extend the currency periods which were due to expire at the end of this year for approvals already granted for its project site at Deebing Heights.
The developer is seeking to extend approvals granted in 2018 - to turn one lot into 178 lots, including two multiple residential projects and a shopping centre - until June 2025.
It was due to expire at the end of the year.