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The Nunukul, also spelt Noonuccal ... On North Stradbroke Island and the mainland opposite there were 2 or perhaps 3 clan divisions of the Quandamooka: the Nunukul ...
Leeanne Enoch, a Quandamooka of Nunukul-Nughi descent, is the Labor party member for the district of Algester in the Queensland assembly since 2015. She is the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the Parliament of Queensland and has held various ministerial positions. [19] [20]
Australian Tribes Australia DNA. − List of the 716 Individual Tribal Groups identified throughout Australia... reproduced with permission, George William (Buralnyarla) Helon's Aboriginal Australia: Register of Tribe, Clan, Horde, Linguistic Group, Language Names and AIATSIS Language Codes - Including Synonyms, Misnomers and Approximate ...
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (/ ˈ ʊ d ɡ ə r uː ˈ n uː n ə k əl / UUD-gə-roo NOO-nə-kəl; born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November 1920 – 16 September 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. [1]
The four dialects listed in Dixon (2002) [4] are sometimes seen as separate Durubalic languages, especially Jandai and Nunukul; Yagara, Yugarabul, and Turrbul proper are more likely to be considered dialects. [1] [5] [6] Turrbal has been variously classified as a language, group of languages or as a dialect of another language. [1] F. J.
The Goenpul's traditional lands occupied some 100 square miles (260 km 2) on southern part of Stradbroke Island.On their northern boundary were the Nunukul. [3] As one of the three tribes constituting the Quandamooka people, the others being the Nunukul and the Ngugi, [1] they are custodians with traditional ownership rights in Moreton Bay.
The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension served as one of the names for the people, reflects their word for "no" (gowarliosislipotinoionalop). [1] It was mutually intelligible with the other Moreton bay languages: Tom Petrie, who had mastered the Brisbane area Turrbal language could, according to his daughter's reminiscences, understand the speech of Ngugi people from the ...
He was descended from the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh people of south-east Queensland, and brother of choreographer Stephen Page and dancer Russell Page. He was also an actor, singer and drag artist .