The Dolphins represent a region quietly shedding its small-town vibe. Can the team provide the area with an identity worthy of the national stage?
in which young protagonist Eli Bell is perched atop an old bridge, battling to reel in a fish, when his serial prison-escaper friend, “Slim” Halliday, dies on its warped wooden planks.
The Moreton Bay region is now home to almost half a million people. It’s one of the fastest growing regions in the country, projected to accommodate at least 200,000 more people over the next two decades as young families flock to the region in search of affordable homes with access to the bush and the beach.Australia’s newest top tier rugby league side
“We are creating a new history, a new era,” Morris says. “But it is building off what’s happened in the past. That history is really important.” “The nickname is basically the team. Location is the community. So what they’ve done, by not having a location, is they’ve essentially divorced themselves from the community.”
To that end, Flannery’s council have backed the Redcliffe rugby league club’s ascension for years, and the mayor admits he is disappointed the franchise didn’t rebrand itself the Moreton Bay Dolphins. A timber cutting town turned truck stop on the Bruce Highway, Burpengary, is now a booming suburb of about 16,500 people and a roughly 30-minute drive from Dolphins Oval.“It’s your very typical, middle class, working, quintessential Australian community,” Crowhurst says. “A lot of quarter acre blocks, a lot of young families moving in and setting up their lives. Also a lot of retirees who have lived here for a long time and are putting up their feet. Not a lot at either end of the spectrum.
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