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Kombumerri Park

Aboriginal burial ground and sporting venue

Kombumerri Park
Tenants

Former names	Merrimac Oval, H & A Oval
Location	Dunlop Court, Mermaid Waters
Owner	Gold Coast City Council
Capacity	6,500^[1]
Surface	Grass
Opened	Unknown
Broadbeach Cats, NEAFL Gold Coast Suns Reserves, NEAFL Broadbeach-Robina Cricket Club

Kombumerri Park (known commercially as Subaru Oval) is a multi-sports venue in Mermaid Waters, a suburb in the Gold Coast, Australia. It includes an Australian Rules Football and Cricket ground.

Before British colonisation, a large area around Kombumerri Park was used as a cemetery by the resident Kombumerri clan of Indigenous Australians. The oldest known interment was conducted around 1,300 years ago and it was still being used as a ceremonial burial ground by Aboriginal people up til the 1880s. A major excavation of the site in the 1960s found the remains of least 200 people. These were repatriated to the local Aboriginal community and reburied at Kombumerri Park in the 1980s.^[2]

It has been used by the NEAFL's Broadbeach Australian Football Club team as their home game base. The Gold Coast Suns reserves side also occasionally uses the ground for home matches.

The Geelong Cats senior side has used the ground for training in July 2017, with thousands of spectators coming along to watch them.

References

^ "Kombumerri Park". Austadiums. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
^ Haglund, Laila (1976). An archaeological analysis of the Broadbeach Aboriginal burial ground. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.

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North East Australian Football League

Clubs

Final season	Aspley Brisbane reserves Canberra Gold Coast reserves Greater Western Sydney reserves Redland Southport Sydney reserves Sydney University
Former	Ainslie Belconnen Broadbeach Greater Western Sydney Labrador Morningside Mount Gravatt NT Thunder Queanbeyan Sydney Hills Tuggeranong