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Yugara land (AIATSIS code E23, also Jagara and Yuggera, and sometimes including Turubul [AIATSIS code E86]) runs from Moreton Bay to Toowomba, including Brisbane and Ipswich, and one of the groups who are the traditional custodians of the land on which Brisbane is built.

AustLit records:

Jeanie Bell: community linguist who has worked on the revival and maintenance of Aboriginal languages for many years.

Kamarra Bell-Wykes: playwright, best known for her work with the Ilbijerri Theatre Company.

Shannon Ruska: singer, dancer, and Elder, who has worked extensively in community-based respite organisations.

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Note: AIATSIS notes that the relationship between Yugara and Turubul is not clear. AUSTLANG treats Jagara, Turubul, Guwar, Jandai, and Yugarabal 'as closely related languages although they might be better treated as closely related dialects'.

Image source: Brisbane at night from Mt Coot-tha. Image published on Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Source.

Gubbi Gubbi land (AIATSIS code E29, also Gabi Gabi and Kabi Kabi) is inland from Wide Bay-Burnett, running on various boundaries as far as Childers and Hervey Bay, Mary River and Cooroy, the Coast Ranges and Kilkivan.

AustLit records:

John M. Wenitong: poet and singer, who also publishes as Pemulwuy Weeatunga.

Eve Fesl: champion athlete, poet, and the first Indigenous Australian to receive a PhD from an Australian university.

Christine Stuart, Susan Clark, and Bianca Clark: sisters who produce children's books focusing on Gubbi Gubbi people and incorporating language.

Paddy Jerome: storyteller who contributed Gubbi Gubbi dreaming stories to the Aboriginal Nations Dreaming series.

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Image credit: Creek in the vicinity of Maleny, on the Sunshine Coast. Image published on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 license. Source.

Yugambeh land (AIATSIS code E17) covers south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, covering Logan City, the Gold Coast and Scenic Rim, and Tweed City.

AustLit records:

Melissa Lucashenko: novelist of Bundjalung and Yugambeh heritage, best known for a variety of young-adult novels and the enormously successful Mullumbimby.

Rory O'Connor: anthologist and historian of First Contact narratives, O'Connor is the son of Patricia O'Connor, who was instrumental in establishing the Yugambeh Museum.

Nicole Watson: layer and novelist of Birri-Gubba and Yugambeh heritage, best known for her crime novel centred on a native title case, The Boundary.

Faith Baisden: author of children's books, who has worked extensively in reviving and cultivating Indigenous languages.

Jenny Fraser: film-maker and poet who works extensively with new technologies.

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Image credit: Nerang River near the Hinze Dam. Image published on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Source.

The Nunukul people are of the Qunadamooka people; their land is on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island).

Although the people are Noonukul (also sometimes Noonuccal), AUSTLANG notes that the language is Moondjan (AIATSIS code E21).

AustLit has an extensive information trail for authors of Noonukul heritage: see the information trail here.

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Image source: The waters off Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Image published on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Source.

The Bundjalung people (AIATSIS code E12, also Bunjalung, Banjalang and Bandjalang) are the original custodians of northern coastal areas of New South Wales, stretching from Grafton on the Clarence River in the south to the Logan River in the north and inland as far as the Great Dividing Range at Tenterfield and Warwick.

AustLit has an extensive information trail for authors of Bundjalung heritage: see the information trail here.

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Image credit: Wollumbin (Mount Warning) in the morning. Image published on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Source.

The Butchulla (AIATSIS code E30) are people of Thoorgine (Fraser Island) and nearby coastal regions.

AustLit records:

Wayne Blair: best known as the director of films including The Sapphires, but also the author of such plays as Sugarland.

Wilf Reeves and Olga Miller: brother-and-sister storyteller-and-illustrator team behind the significant children's work The Legends of Moonie Jarl.

Jodie Burns: illustrator of children's books in Butchulla language.

Fiona Foley: multimedia artist, Adjunct Professor at The University of Queensland, and curator of the ground-breaking Courting Blakness exhibition.

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Image credit: Sunset on Thoorgine (Fraser Island). Image published on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Source.

Biri-Gubba Juru (AIATSIS code E56) are people of north Queensland.

AustLit records:

Samuel Wagan Watson: award-winning poet, narrator, and storyteller, whose works are taught in universities across Australia.

Sam Watson: activist, writer, lecturer, and storyteller, Sam Watson has written novels, plays, and films.

Jackie Huggins: activist and academic, who was written widely on issues of concern to Indigenous communities, and worked extensively on issues of reconciliation, social justice, and women's issues.

Cathy Freeman: Olympic-level athlete, who retired in 2003 and published her autobiography in the same year.

Boori Pryor: formerly the joint inaugural Australian Children's Laureate and storyteller.

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Image source: MacKay. Image published on Wikimedia Commons and in the public domain. Source.