Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Dingo, D. Fleays, May 1968

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The David Fleay Wildlife Park was established by David Fleay in 1951 as a place of research and education.

David Howells Fleay was born in Ballarat in 1907 and established an interest in the Australian bush and its wildlife at an early age. Fleay accepted a teaching position at Ballarat Grammar School and, in 1927, moved to Melbourne where he taught whilst studying for a Bachelor of Science degree and a Diploma of Education at Melbourne University. At Melbourne University he met fellow science student, Mary Sigrid Collie, and they married in 1931, the year in which David Fleay graduated in Zoology, Botany and Education.

Between 1931 and 1934, Fleay taught at the Ballarat Church of England Grammar School and at State primary and secondary schools, while continuing his private study of native animals. By 1934 his reputation as a ‘wildlife man’ was

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