Woolloongabba Woes

Davi Mai
6 min readJul 14, 2021

(written when drunk)

According to the dreaded Wikipedia, experts are divided as to the meaning of the Aboriginal name “Woolloongabba” preferring either ‘whirling waters’ (woolloon and capemm) or ‘fight talk place’ (woolloon and gabba).

I find this strange. Someone could ask a local Aboriginal elder where the word came from? Nevertheless, I like the second meaning “Fight talk place”. Because that…

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Davi Mai

Short story writer. Fantasy, sci-fi, transgressive. I lack a filter but try to make stuff fun.