{"id":74,"date":"2018-01-22T11:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsi.localhost\/about-us\/history\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T10:43:54","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/about-us\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Inaugural meeting of the Stradbroke Island Housing Society was held on the 2<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">August 1973 at the Dunwich Public Hall. Aunty Florence Coolwell was the first President and Aunty Ailsa Perry was elected as the Treasurer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formation meeting of the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal and Islanders Housing Co-operative Society Ltd (\u2018NSI Housing Co-op&#8217;) was held on the 5 November 1979 at the Dunwich Public Hall. Aunty Kath Walker was elected as President and Aunty Ailsa Perry as the Treasurer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 8<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September 1980, the NSI Housing Co-op\u00a0was incorporated under the Queensland Co-operative and other Societies Act 1967-1978. It was later registered under the Co-operatives Act 1997 (Qld) on 4 December 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meetings were held in the Dunwich Scouts Hall or private homes until the purchase of our office at 18 Welsby Street, Dunwich on the 14 December 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, the NSI Housing Co-op\u00a0own many properties including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tenanted houses in the Dunwich community;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Myora Caravan Park (143-145 Dickson Way, Dunwich);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Minjerriba Respite Centre (25 Bingle Road, Dunwich);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nareeba Moopi Moopi Pa Aged Care Hostel (28 Dickson Way, Dunwich); and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Old TAFE (location of Horizon Office, Yulu-Burri-Ba Men\u2019s Shed).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Nareeba Moopi Moopi Pa Aged Care Hostel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was established in June 1994 and was situated at 24 Dickson Way, Dunwich as a four-bed residential aged care accommodation. In July 2004, a new 14 bed aged care facility was constructed at 28 Dickson Way, Dunwich where Nareeba Moopi Moopi Pa Aged Care Hostel is situated today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Minjerriba Respite Centre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> started operating in June 1994 at 24 Dickson Way, Dunwich using part of NMMP\u2019s Aged Care building to deliver services to Respite clients before they relocated to 25 Bingle Road, Dunwich in January 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Myora Caravan Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was purchased in January 1994 and has a total of 36 sites. Six of these sites, including the Manager\u2019s quarters is owned by the Housing Co-op and the rest are privately owned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inaugural meeting of the Stradbroke Island Housing Society was held on the 2 August 1973 at the Dunwich Public Hall. Aunty Florence Coolwell was the first President and Aunty Ailsa Perry was elected as the Treasurer. Formation meeting of the North Stradbroke Island Aboriginal and Islanders Housing Co-operative Society Ltd (\u2018NSI Housing Co-op&#8217;) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"parent":68,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsihousing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}