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Home > Disability and Community Care Services > Community involvement > Queensland All Abilities Playground Project > Playground profiles

Playground profiles

All abilities playgrounds are now opened and finishing development across Queensland. To learn more about the projects, click on a location marked on the map below.

Map of Queensland showing locations of all abilities playgrounds New Mapoon Mossman Edmonton Normanton Thuringowa Central Ayr Mackay Yeppoon Blackwater Pialba Gympie Texas Landsborough Capalaba Logan Central Broadbeach

  • Ayr (OPEN)

  • Blackwater (OPEN)

  • Broadbeach (OPEN)

  • Capalaba

  • Edmonton (OPEN)

  • Gympie (OPEN)

  • Landsborough (OPEN)

  • Logan Central (OPEN)

  • Mackay (OPEN)

  • Mossman (OPEN)

  • Mount Isa (OPEN)

  • New Mapoon

  • Normanton (OPEN)

  • Pialba (OPEN)

  • Texas (OPEN)

  • Thuringowa Central (OPEN)

  • Yeppoon (OPEN)

Community involvement

  • Queensland All Abilities Playground Project
    • About the Queensland All Abilities Playground Project
    • Playground profiles
      • Ayr (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
      • Blackwater (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
        • Blackwater's Art in the Park event (4-5 April 2009)
      • Broadbeach (OPEN)
        • Students make playground art
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: Playground image gallery
      • Capalaba
      • Edmonton (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
      • Gympie (OPEN)
        • Access Advisory Committee (Gympie region) art workshop (14 October 2009)
        • Gympie Special School art workshop (6 November 2009)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
        • Local businesses back playground
        • Public art adds up for community
      • Landsborough (OPEN)
      • Logan Central (OPEN)
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
        • Opening event image gallery
      • Mackay (OPEN)
        • Iluka Park All Abilities Playground official opening image gallery
        • Iluka Park All Abilities Playground image gallery
        • Student mosaic completes the picture
        • Entering the unknown
        • Video: Opening event interviews
      • Mossman (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
        • Children's art project
      • Mount Isa (OPEN)
        • Family Fun Park opening celebrations (5-6 June 2009)
        • Graduate designer puts theory into practice
        • Students adopt playground as second classroom
        • Video: Opening event interviews
      • New Mapoon
      • Normanton (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
        • Participatory design process
        • Participatory design process transcript
      • Pialba (OPEN)
        • Opening celebrations at the Seafront
        • Pialba playground
        • Indigenous trainees help build playground
        • Participatory design process
        • Participatory design process transcript
      • Texas (OPEN)
        • Construction on the Texas All Abilities Playground (April-October 2009)
        • Texas All Abilities Playground opening celebrations (27 November 2009)
        • Local business nurtures plants
        • Community celebration a fitting tribute
        • Open letter from community champion
      • Thuringowa Central (OPEN)
        • Riverway All Abilities Playground opening celebrations (14 November 2009)
        • Finishing touches go on the Riverway All Abilities Playground (October 2009)
        • Student storybook a real page turner
        • A personal note from the designer
        • Q and A with Umbrella mums
        • Video: Opening event interviews
      • Yeppoon (OPEN)
        • Opening event image gallery
        • Visual tour: playground image gallery
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Last reviewed 30 November 2011

Last modified 30 November 2011

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