Brisbane tent embassy removed by council

Brisbane City Council is shutting down an Aboriginal tent embassy at the request of elders. Source: AAP

AN Aboriginal tent embassy in Brisbane is being removed at the request of indigenous elders who fear the site has moved away from its original purpose.

Council staff were on Tuesday afternoon cleaning up the small cluster of tents at South Brisbane's Musgrave Park after Brisbane City Council withdrew permission for the embassy to be there.

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said members of Brisbane's indigenous community had serious concerns about the site, including fears it lacked adult supervision and was becoming violent and choked with rubbish.

Indigenous leaders asked the embassy members to move during a meeting on Tuesday but they refused.

"This action is being taken strictly at the request of local elders," Mr Quirk said in a statement on Tuesday.

"We have a very good working relationship with Brisbane's indigenous community and if they tell me that the tent embassy has lost its way and needs to close, then I respect that decision."

Relations between authorities and embassy members were strained when hundreds of police closed it earlier this year to make way for a major Greek festival.

It was relocated to another position in the park.

In October the site was partially destroyed by a fire which is understood to have been started by one of the inhabitants.

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