Editing Boodjamulla National Park (section)

==History==
The  [[Waanyi]]  have lived in the gorge area for at least 17,000 years and know this place as Boodjamulla,<ref name="xqnp"/> or [[Rainbow Serpent]] country. Lawn Hill Gorge is sacred to the Waanyi people. [[Midden]] heaps, camp sites, grinding stones, and [[rock art]] evidence the importance of this place. Today, the Waanyi people help manage the park.{{cn|date=October 2020}} Part of the land around Lawn Hill was occupied by the [[Injilarija]] people, until they became extinct around 1880 and the Waanyi took over their land.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Information Service: Queensland: Extinguishment by pastoral lease|journal=[[AMPLA Bulletin]]|volume=14|issue=2|pages=90|publisher=Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Sutton | first=P. | title=Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-139-44949-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOnTBS_jFEIC&pg=PA5 | access-date=30 October 2020 | page=5}}</ref>

The park has a rich pastoral history and until December 1984 was part of Lawn Hill Station, which was once one of Queensland's largest cattle properties.<ref name="xqnp"/> The cattle station was formed from several leases originally granted in the 1870s,<ref name = "gorgeous"/> and for some time was run by the notoriously cruel [[Jack Watson (cattle station manager)|Jack Watson]] and [[Frank Hann]], who regularly hunted down and shot Aboriginal people living in the area, cutting the ears of their corpses and nailing them to the walls of the homestead.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Creaghe, Emily Caroline | author2=Monteath, Peter | title=The diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe: explorer | date=2004 | publisher=Corkwood Press | isbn=978-1-876247-14-0}}</ref>{{page number needed|date=January 2024}} The Aboriginal outlaw [[Joe Flick]] shot dead a [[Native Police]] officer and wounded Frank Hann during a shootout at Lawn Hill in 1889.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52282794 |title=The Lawn Hill Tragedy. |newspaper=[[Morning Bulletin]] |volume=XLII |issue=8195 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=22 November 1889 |accessdate=17 January 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> 

[[Sebastião Ferreira Maia]], who owned that station from 1976, returned {{convert|122|km2}} on the lease to the state in 1984, on the condition it be managed for the public's benefit. In 1992, another {{convert|1,350|km²}} was given to the crown to extend the park's boundaries.<ref name = "gorgeous"/>

The [[Riversleigh World Heritage Area|Riversleigh]] and Musselbrook sections were amalgamated into the park in 1992.<ref name="gorgeous" /><ref name="xqnp"/>

The national park was gazetted on 8 August 1994 under the ''[[Nature Conservation Act 1992]]'' by regulation, Nature Conservation (Declaration of Nature Refuges) Amendment (No.1) 1994; then amended by regulation, Nature Conservation (Protected Areas) Amendment (No.5) 1999.and again by Forestry (State Forests) and Nature Conservation (Protected Areas) Amendment (No.1) 2003.<ref name=qpn/>

A [[native title in Australia|native title claim]] was lodged by the Waanyi people in 1994, which was finally granted in 2010 that they received native title rights over the region.<ref name="Waterson 2022"/>

The park was formerly known as Lawn Hill National Park.<ref name="Waterson 2022"/><ref name=qpn/>
On 7 June 2022 the new Boodjamulla National Park Management Plan was published, officially introducing joint management of the park between the [[Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service]] and the Waanyi people.<ref name="Waterson 2022">{{cite web | last=Waterson | first=Larissa | title=Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park management plan cheered by Waanyi people | date=7 June 2022 | website=ABC News | publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-07/waanyi-people-to-manage-lawn-hill-national-park/101132232 | access-date=8 June 2022 | archive-date=8 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608074805/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-07/waanyi-people-to-manage-lawn-hill-national-park/101132232 | url-status=live }}</ref>