The term birth parent means the woman who gave birth to the child or the father of genetic origin of the child. The term parent means the birth or adoptive mother or the birth, adoptive, or legal father whose parental rights have not been terminated.
Goondiwindi is on the MacIntyre River in Queensland near the New South Wales border, 350 kilometres (220 mi) south west of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. The twin town of Boggabilla is nearby, on the New South Wales side of the border.
It has open space and bushland vegetation as well as lakes and wetlands which include Lake Joondalup, Beenyup and Walluburnup Swamps, Lake Goollelai. There are bamboo plants extant which are remnants of market garden plantings used for stakes and a fenceline at Lake Joondalup north of Ocean Reef Road.n 1975 under the Metropolitan Regional Scheme most of the land which now comprises of Yellagonga Regional Park were reserved as Parks and Recreation. Since then most of the private lands within the park have been aquired by State planning authorities.